Ingmar Bergman 1918

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Ingmar Bergman 1918 - 2007

Of all the world's great film-makers, Ingmar Bergman was the greatest writer of them all. The Seventh Seal from 1957 is perhaps Ingmar Bergman's most famous film and although the image of death in human form has been subject to pastiche and parody so many times in our pop culture that it has become a existential visual cliché second only to Edvard Munch's painting The Scream, it is worth quoting from the screenplay on the occasion of Ingmar Bergman's own encounter with death this past week at the age of 89. The stark, sparse dialog between the knight, Antonius Block, returning home in medieval Sweden during the days of the Black Plague and his nemesis, the personification of Death, is a masterpiece of literary economy and dramatic power:

Knight: Who are you?
Death: I am Death.
Knight: Have you come for me?
Death: I have been walking by your side for a long time.
Knight: That I know.
Death: Are you prepared?
Knight: My body is frightened, but I am not.
Death: Well, there is no shame in that.

The Knight has risen to his feet. He shivers. Death opens his cloak to place it around the knight's shoulders.

Knight: Wait a moment.
Death: That's what they all say. I grant no reprieves.
Knight: You play chess, don't you.

A gleam of interest kindles in Death's eyes.
…

Death: Now I see something interesting.
Knight: What do you see?
Death: You are mated on the next move, Antonius Block.
Knight: That's true.
Death: Did you enjoy your reprieve?
Knight: Yes, I did.
Death: I'm happy to hear that. Now I'll be leaving you. When we meet again, you and your companions' time will be up.
Knight: And you will divulge your secrets.
Death: I have no secrets.
Knight: So you know nothing.
Death: I have nothing to tell.

- from Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman


Images: My Life in Film Ingmar Bergman Arcade Publishing list Price: $27.95 lovethebook price: $43.99 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
The highly acclaimed Swedish director comments on his more than fifty films and a life spent in film, in an illustrated chronicle of Bergman's career. By the author of Sunday's Child. 50,000 first printing.

The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography Ingmar Bergman University Of Chicago Press list Price: $18.00 lovethebook price: $12.21 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
“When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood.” Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern. More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman’s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood’s golden ...

The Films of Ingmar Bergman: Illusions of Light and Darkness Laura Hubner Palgrave Macmillan list Price: $90.00 lovethebook price: $77.94 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
Laura Hubner's book is among the first to analyze key films directed by Ingmar Bergman throughout his lifetime. Various kinds of "illusion" in Bergman's work (the mask, identity, dreams, and visions) are explored at both thematic and formal levels, positioned within wider concerns and perspectives such as cultural and artistic influences on Bergman's creative output, the phenomenon of Bergman as "art film" director, debates about modernism and postmodernism, and emerging feminist discourses on the multiplicity of identity.

The Fifth Act Ingmar Bergman, Lasse Bergstrom New Press, The list Price: $24.95 lovethebook price: $1.98 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
The remarkable, final filmscripts of acclaimed director Ingmar Bergman, available in English for the first time. The scripts of award-winning film director Ingmar Bergman have been among the most important documents in film history. Though his vision in such films as Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal has shaped our thinking about the cinema, none of his most recent films have been shown in US theaters. This book brings to English readers for the first time some of the finest creations of Bergman's mature years. In these three scenarios of extraordinary frankness, even rawness, ...

Ingmar Bergman Revisited: Performance, Cinema and the Arts Wallflower Press list Price: $28.00 lovethebook price: $16.30 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
Ingmar Bergman Revisited is a collection of new essays based on a major international symposium held in Stockholm in 2005 on the legacy of one of cinema's most towering figures. Moving beyond simple auteurist readings of Bergman as a cinematic artist, the writings here evaluate the theatrical and literary sides of Bergman's work to reconsider the achievements of the Swedish director, up to his last film Saraband (2003). Several essays result from research in Bergman's own personal archive, and amongst the subjects discussed are Bergman's stage adaptations of Shakespeare, his fascination ...

Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity Irving Singer The MIT Press list Price: $26.95 lovethebook price: $26.95 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
Shortlisted for the 2008 Kraszna-Krausz Award for the Best Moving Image Book. Known for their repeating motifs and signature tropes, the films of Ingmar Bergman also contain extensive variation and development. In these reflections on Bergman's artistry and thought, Irving Singer discerns distinctive themes in Bergman's filmmaking, from first intimations in the early work to consummate resolutions in the later movies. Singer demonstrates that while Bergman's output was not philosophy on celluloid, it attains an expressive and purely aesthetic truthfulness that can be considered ...

The Passion of Ingmar Bergman Frank Gado Duke University Press list Price: $27.95 lovethebook price: $19.99 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
My jaw drops at the Library Journal review supplied by Amazon of Frank Gado's magnificant Bergman book, but I note it appears to be a very early review. I had been a Bergman fan for years when Gado's book came out and when it did it was like lightning bolt. This is not just some pamphlet to add to your Bergman collection once you've read all the rest. This is the SEMINAL study of Bergman; no one can write about the filmaker in the future without knowing this book. It was the first to get past the religious mumbo-jumbo and the literary high mindedness to discover just what Bergman is actually saying. ...

Bergman on Bergman: Interviews With Ingmar Bergman Stig Bjorkman, Torsten Manns, Jones Sima Da Capo Pr list Price: $13.95 lovethebook price from: $88.95 View Details Library Lookup
Ingmar Bergman, an undisputed giant of modern cinematic art, here talks frankly and extensively about himself and his films. This discussion with the great Swedish director ranges from Bergman's childhood memories to his admiration for Strindberg to his relationship with the stars whom he made famous - Liv Ullmann, Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow and Bibi Andersson, among others. Originally published in 1973, this work covers Bergman's career from his early films through the works: "The Seventh Seal", "Wild Strawberries", "Persona", "The Passion of Anna".

Ingmar Bergman: His Life and Films Jerry Vermilye McFarland & Company list Price: $39.95 lovethebook price: $31.24 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
He always is very, very close to the camera, and he is terribly inspiring. I don t know what his magic is, but it is something that makes you want to give everything you have. He has respect for actors and for everybody. A bad director very often doesn t have that respect. Liv Ullman s words about Ingmar Bergman hint at the consummate director he was, one who knew the business, the strengths and weaknesses of actors and crews, the arrangement of the set, the framing of the camera, and all other particulars of the fine art of directing. This work presents Bergman s life and work, beginning with ...

Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide Birgitta Steene Amsterdam University Press list Price: $75.00 lovethebook price: $58.95 View Details Add To Cart Library Lookup
The films of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman are renowned for their largely spare and stark aesthetic, an existential framework, and plots driven by a fascination with death and the moral torments of the human soul. Birgitta Steene offers here in Ingmar Bergman: A Reference Guide an essential and unparalleled resource on the life and work of Bergman. Plumbing the depths of these trademark Bergman themes, Steene traces as well the indelible mark he left on world cinema through his other cinematographic work and writings. Over the decades, Bergman's stature and image have evolved ...

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