I had watched Wild Strawberries before. A friend of mine wanted to watch it for quite sometime. Never got the time and the mood to watch. We will never know why certain things are chosen to occur in a particular way. Today we thought of watching it. No, we did not watch it fully. But we had watched for sometime. We never knew that we were paying our homage to the film-maker Ingmar Bergman.
Ingmar Bergman has passed away today at the age of 89. I have also watched The Seventh Seal.
He has said,
"Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."
"Anyone who makes films must have a goal before his eyes: namely, to try to get as close to the viewer as possible, to affect him as deeply as possible. What i call technique is knowing exactly how to affect the viewer. That's the crux of the matter. All the rest is secondary. And it is a matter of talent.."
"I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then."
Some links:
Ingmar Bergman has passed away today at the age of 89. I have also watched The Seventh Seal.
He has said,
"Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."
"Anyone who makes films must have a goal before his eyes: namely, to try to get as close to the viewer as possible, to affect him as deeply as possible. What i call technique is knowing exactly how to affect the viewer. That's the crux of the matter. All the rest is secondary. And it is a matter of talent.."
"I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then."
Some links:
- BBC report
- Bergman profile - BBC
- Ingmar Bergman website
- Ingmar Bergman Foundation
- Ingmar Bergman - IMDB
- Bergmanorama
- Obituary - BBC
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Some more links:
1. http://www.hal-pc.org/~questers/bergman.html
2. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/07/swedish_film_director_ingmar_b.html
3. http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/bergman.html
4. http://film.guardian.co.uk/bergman/0,,2137802,00.html
Khalid Mohammad directed Tehzeeb (Hindi movie) is inspired from Autumn Sonata directed by Bergman. It was well made by Khalid. As is usual the music & lyrics are very good.
Thanks C.C. Ganesh for the information.
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