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Jesus....yeah, I know he was 89, but cinema has lost one of its true giants. For around 15 years from the late 50s-early 70s he was synonymous with a certain type of arthouse cinema. I'm a little stunned actually. Might haul out "Persona" or "Virgin Spring" for another viewing in his honour.
Legendary film-maker Bergman dies aged 89
THE AGE
July 30, 2007 - 8:13PM
Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was widely acclaimed for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which won four Oscars, including for Best Foreign Language Film.
Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential film directors of the 20th century, died today at his home on the Swedish island of Faaro, his daughter Eva told the TT news agency. He was 89
Bergman was widely acclaimed for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which won four Oscars, including for Best Foreign Language Film.
Eva Bergman said that her father had passed away "peacefully."
For many movie buffs, Bergman was the greatest of the authorial film-makers of the 1950s and 1960s, outranking even such figures as Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel or Jean-Luc Godard.
The demanding nature of his work, in particular the gravity of his themes, was such that the general public found him remote, and he was accused in his homeland of being partly responsible for Sweden being presented as a country of neurotics.
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden, on July 14, 1918, the second of three children.
His strict childhood -- his father Erik was a clergyman -- and family relationships influenced him profoundly and were reflected in all his work.
At Stockholm University he discovered his vocation when he chose the dramatic society over his literature and art history classes.
He directed his first film, Crisis, in 1945 but it was not until 1956 that he won international acclaim when Smiles of a Summer Night was shown at the Cannes Festival. For more than three decades he produced an average of a movie a year.
Known in Sweden mainly as a dramatist, Bergman obtained poor reviews for work that was considered dark and incomprehensible, with its focus on love, loneliness, anguish and relations with God.
Women also occupied a central role in his work, which often dwelt on the mysteries of the female soul. He had loved his mother intensely as a child, and when a doctor advised her to set him aside or he would be damaged for life, he felt the loss deeply.
Mother-son relationships featured prominently in his work, as did his experiences from five marriages. He had nine children, including a daughter by actress Liv Ullmann.
Bergman made profoundly personal films following his intellectual and spiritual preoccupations and tracing his loss of faith in God.
The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963) and The Silence (1963) all lead progressively to a rejection of religious belief, leaving only the conviction that human life is haunted by "a virulent, active evil."
With Wild Strawberries (1957), Bergman turned increasingly to psychological dilemmas and ethical issues in human and social relations once religion proved a failure.
For many years Bergman declined attractive offers to work abroad. But in 1976, after being charged by the Swedish tax authorities, he moved to Germany and worked as the director of Munich Residenz Theatre.
After a six-year exile he returned to Sweden and remained there until his death.
Officially "retired", he continued to work tirelessly, directing television plays, writing screenplays - such as the autobiographical saga The Best Intentions which, reduced to three-hour film length, won the 1992 Cannes Golden Palm for director Bille August.
Legendary film-maker Bergman dies aged 89
THE AGE
July 30, 2007 - 8:13PM
Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was widely acclaimed for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which won four Oscars, including for Best Foreign Language Film.
Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential film directors of the 20th century, died today at his home on the Swedish island of Faaro, his daughter Eva told the TT news agency. He was 89
Bergman was widely acclaimed for films such as The Seventh Seal (1957) and Fanny and Alexander (1982), which won four Oscars, including for Best Foreign Language Film.
Eva Bergman said that her father had passed away "peacefully."
For many movie buffs, Bergman was the greatest of the authorial film-makers of the 1950s and 1960s, outranking even such figures as Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel or Jean-Luc Godard.
The demanding nature of his work, in particular the gravity of his themes, was such that the general public found him remote, and he was accused in his homeland of being partly responsible for Sweden being presented as a country of neurotics.
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden, on July 14, 1918, the second of three children.
His strict childhood -- his father Erik was a clergyman -- and family relationships influenced him profoundly and were reflected in all his work.
At Stockholm University he discovered his vocation when he chose the dramatic society over his literature and art history classes.
He directed his first film, Crisis, in 1945 but it was not until 1956 that he won international acclaim when Smiles of a Summer Night was shown at the Cannes Festival. For more than three decades he produced an average of a movie a year.
Known in Sweden mainly as a dramatist, Bergman obtained poor reviews for work that was considered dark and incomprehensible, with its focus on love, loneliness, anguish and relations with God.
Women also occupied a central role in his work, which often dwelt on the mysteries of the female soul. He had loved his mother intensely as a child, and when a doctor advised her to set him aside or he would be damaged for life, he felt the loss deeply.
Mother-son relationships featured prominently in his work, as did his experiences from five marriages. He had nine children, including a daughter by actress Liv Ullmann.
Bergman made profoundly personal films following his intellectual and spiritual preoccupations and tracing his loss of faith in God.
The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring (1960), Through a Glass Darkly (1961), Winter Light (1963) and The Silence (1963) all lead progressively to a rejection of religious belief, leaving only the conviction that human life is haunted by "a virulent, active evil."
With Wild Strawberries (1957), Bergman turned increasingly to psychological dilemmas and ethical issues in human and social relations once religion proved a failure.
For many years Bergman declined attractive offers to work abroad. But in 1976, after being charged by the Swedish tax authorities, he moved to Germany and worked as the director of Munich Residenz Theatre.
After a six-year exile he returned to Sweden and remained there until his death.
Officially "retired", he continued to work tirelessly, directing television plays, writing screenplays - such as the autobiographical saga The Best Intentions which, reduced to three-hour film length, won the 1992 Cannes Golden Palm for director Bille August.
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