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July 30, 2007

Ingmar Bergman RIP (2)

Here's a nice treat in tribute to the departed legend that was Ingmar Bergman. An original 1950s trailer for the Seventh Seal:

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Ingmar Bergman RIP - (and a dig at the BBC)

Very sad to see the death of Ingmar Bergman today. So there goes my favourite film director and novelist (Kurt Vonnegut) in the same year. Persona, the Seventh Seal, Fanny and Alexander and Smiles of a Summer Night were some of my favourite Bergman films and it's good to see the BBC web site putting the story of his death, and reader tributes, on the front page.

One of the giants of film, but when was the last time the BBC showed one of Bergman's film's on BBC1 or BBC2? Is this not more evidence of the dumbing down of our public service broadcaster?


Persona


A still from Persona

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Sssshhhhhh!

Some of the more observant readers of this blog will have noticed that it's gone awfully quiet around here recently. All I can is my "hinterland" has squeezed out any room for blogging at the moment. We'll get August out of the way and then in the Autumn it will be time to re-design and re-launch. It will be nice to get more contributors, so stay tuned, until then...

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