Ingmar Bergman

[ie]

At least Ingmar Bergman does not hate BeeD Studios.

[agentknight]

He has a poor taste in film because he disagrees with what the majority thinks? Fuck off.

[criterionmaster]

Well actually, he does have terrible taste in film. He said before he wouldn't watch a film over two hours, and many other stupid things like this.

[agentknight]

And he made Fanny and Alexander? : /

[ie]

"It was originally conceived as a four part TV movie which spanned 312 minutes. A version lasting only 188 minutes was created later for cinematic release." - The Wik

[criterionmaster]

I think he knows, he was just saying that he made films longer than 2 hours, so would that mean he doesn't watch his own films (since he doesn't watch films over two hours).

[mixed]

He wouldn't watch his own films anyway, I doubt many directors do. Maybe occassionally to take pride in what they have achieved but otherwise...
From my experience, after I've made a film I hate seeing it. My work embarasses me and I'm basically sick of it, having seen clips many times over from editing them together.

[criterionmaster]

Please, post some of your films no matter how much you hate them. I want to see them. Please.

[mixed]

This is the only one online and probably the best one. I was producer on this project so it isn't entirely 'mine' I dont mind this one to much, it was the first thing me and my friends made, our first project was a music vid. I have other ones but the disks with them on aren't in my posession
Actually I have one but I dont know how to upload....is it possible to get something from a disk onto google vids or is the original edit of the film required? because if thats the case I can't get them p because the original edits get deleted due to computer space problems

video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=593839178366474551&q=zedwork

[criterionmaster]

Oh God, that was really great. Thanks for posting it! The shot when they were running with camera in front on a car and the sun, it just looked perfect. I really liked the part where the camera spins and they are in slow motion on that thing *I forget the name*. I didn't like that he grabbed a fake cigarette though, but other than that it was very enjoyable.

In order to upload all you have to do is have a video clip on your computer, doesn't really matter of what. And then go to (YouTube, Google Video, anywhere) and there will be something that says “upload video”, then you can just take it right from your computer onto the site by following the directions given.

The thread under "General Film", "Anyone Involved in Film?", is a good place to post anything you upload. Again, thanks for posting that.

[mixed]

Hmm thanks for the comments! I also dislike the shot of the fake cigarette. My friend is like hugely against smoking and wouldn't even put one in his mouth

[kiddo]

Cool. The film had many nice shots in it, and it was all flowing well. But I found the music somewhat inappropiate. I guess it would have been better with the use of classic music or something. But that's just me.

When it comes to Bergman, he has said that he "Of one or antother reason, which I haven't speculated in earlier, I have always avoid watching my films again. In times where I have had to do it because of coercion or curiousity, I am, with no exeption and no matter which film it is, been indignant, "pissetrengt" (sorry, doesn't quite know how to translate it... it's something like "be in need to urinate", "skitetrengt" (the same thing, only in need to take a shit in stead of urinating)... on the verge of tears, angry, frightened, unhappy, nostalgic, sentimental, and so on."

[wkw]

RIP Ingmar Bergman

Film director Bergman dies at 89

July 30, 2007

Legendary film-maker Ingmar Bergman, one of the key figures in modern cinema, has died at the age of 89.

His 60-year career spanned intense classics like Cries & Whispers, The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries.

He was personally nominated for nine Oscars between 1960 and 1984, while three of his productions won Oscars for best foreign film.

Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden. No details about the cause of death have been released.

Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, said: "It's an unbelievable loss for Sweden, but even more so internationally."

Nick James, editor of cinema magazine Sight & Sound, paid tribute to Bergman as "one of the great masters and one of the great humanists of cinema".

"There are very few people of that kind of stature today," he said. "He proved that cinema could be an artform."

Bergman had five marriages and eight children, and his work often explored the tensions between married couples.

He once said: "My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. Sometimes they appear from the past, sometimes they grow up from my present life."

Bergman was born in 1918. His father was a Lutheran chaplain to the Swedish royal family and a strict disciplinarian.

As a child, Bergman used to help a local projectionist with film screenings and he went on to train as an actor and director at the University of Stockholm.

He eventually became director of the Helsingborg City Theatre in 1944, the same year that saw his first film script, Frenzy, brought to the big screen by Alf Sjoberg.

Bergman made his own directorial debut with Crisis in 1946, the first of more than 40 films he directed in his career.

But it was not until the appearance of two tales of all-consuming love affairs - Summer Interlude in 1951 and Summer with Monika in 1953 - that his cinematic work was celebrated.

His reputation was confirmed by the international art-house hit The Seventh Seal in 1957.

The movie, currently back in cinemas to celebrate its 50th anniversary, is famous for the often-parodied scene in which one of the characters plays chess with death.

Bergman said he was "terribly scared of death" at the time.

He won his first Oscar for best foreign film in 1961 with The Virgin Spring, based on a 13th century Swedish ballad about a family taking revenge for their daughter's murder.

The following year, he repeated the feat with Through A Glass Darkly, which explores the effect of schizophrenia on both the patient and their family.

He remained popular throughout the 1970s, when he made several films in Germany while under self-imposed tax exile from Sweden.

On his return, he made possibly his most popular film, and the one with which he announced his retirement, Fanny and Alexander.

Told from the perspective of two children who suffer when their mother remarries a clergyman, the film is more warm-hearted and sentimental than Bergman's austere earlier work.

The cinematic version, cut down from a five-hour long TV mini-series, earned a third best foreign film Oscar in 1982.

'Depressed

After retiring from film-making, Bergman continued to work in theatre and television, with his last work, Saraband, shown on Swedish public television in December 2003.

When it aired, almost a million Swedes - or one in nine - watched the family drama, which was based on the two main characters from his previous TV series, Scenes From a Marriage.

In a 70th birthday tribute in 1988, Woody Allen said Bergman was "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera".

But Bergman confessed in 2004 that he could not bear to watch his own films because they made him depressed.

"I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable," he said. "I think it's awful," he said in a rare interview on Swedish TV.

According to the TT news agency, Bergman died peacefully on Faro Island - or Sheep Island - in the Baltic Sea. The director had settled on the island after filming several movies there.

The date of the funeral has not yet been set, but will be attended by a close group of friends and family, it was reported.

End of Article

[captainofbeef]

Its sad but the guy was 89 years old, he lived a long and full life.

[criterionmaster]

oh man, i am so fucking sad. he was probably the greatest living director. i really wish he could have gotten at least one more film in or something.

[misterbalco]

ive seen 18 of his films, the most impressive filmography of any director ive seen.

Pretty sad day...Bill Walsh of the Niners died today also. These are two gentlemen to look up to, one coaches the right way, the other directs flawless masterpieces. RIP

[malicious32dll]

meh, Im better than that old sod anyways...

[criterionmaster]

i took this newspaper class thing, and we had to pick a recent thing that happened in the news and summarize it and talk about it in like 2 1/2 pages. and i picked the death of two masters on the same day (bergman and antonioni). it is actually kinda hard to get it to the length i need it. i am reading other articles written about the subject, and they say so much stuff i wouldn't have even thought i needed to say, since it seems so obvious to me. it is going to probably take me a few days to finish it. it isn't due till the 13th.

[dontdigonswine]

[1] The Seventh Seal
[2] Persona
[3] Fanny and Alexander
[4] Wild Strawberries
[5] Cries and Whispers