Your Bergman winter survival guide is the perfect antidote to seasonal despair: part film criticism, part existential balm. The way you trace his glacial silences and sudden human warmth mirrors the very contradictions of the season itself. A masterclass in finding catharsis through art’s coldest comforts.
Reading this makes me itch to rewatch The Seventh Seal and other Ingmar Bergman movies. It is definitely my favorite, besides Fanny and Alexander and Wild Strawberries. I've watched most of the Bergman movies in Swedish without subtitles. If you are a die-hard fan, you must learn Swedish to fully appreciate his dialogues! (JK, although, in my youth, when I was at the post office mailing boxes to Sweden in preparation of moving there, the clerk told me that he had studied Swedish in college just so he could understand the Bergman movies. I was very impressed.) I looked through your curation of your winter survival series. They are excellent choices. The first one, Winter Light, is a bleak one... a great choice for surviving the winter, LOL!
Thank you for subscribing and yes, Winter Light and Virgin Spring were hard to watch. I love Seventh Seal and actually find it comforting…I think it’s Bergman’s Wild Western film!
Your interpretation and perspective of it as a Wild Western film is hilarious and interesting! I'll try to search for that angle the next time I watch the Seventh Seal.
Those two depressing ones made a great impact on me despite them being hard to watch. I still remember, years later, the specific scenes that shocked me to the core. A testament to the power of Bergman's art.
Time to get to work on "Seventh Seal: The Broadway Musical." Who do you like for casting the role of Death: To appeal to that tourist and youth crowd, I think Ariana Grande would be fabulous!
Your Bergman winter survival guide is the perfect antidote to seasonal despair: part film criticism, part existential balm. The way you trace his glacial silences and sudden human warmth mirrors the very contradictions of the season itself. A masterclass in finding catharsis through art’s coldest comforts.
Reading this makes me itch to rewatch The Seventh Seal and other Ingmar Bergman movies. It is definitely my favorite, besides Fanny and Alexander and Wild Strawberries. I've watched most of the Bergman movies in Swedish without subtitles. If you are a die-hard fan, you must learn Swedish to fully appreciate his dialogues! (JK, although, in my youth, when I was at the post office mailing boxes to Sweden in preparation of moving there, the clerk told me that he had studied Swedish in college just so he could understand the Bergman movies. I was very impressed.) I looked through your curation of your winter survival series. They are excellent choices. The first one, Winter Light, is a bleak one... a great choice for surviving the winter, LOL!
Thank you for subscribing and yes, Winter Light and Virgin Spring were hard to watch. I love Seventh Seal and actually find it comforting…I think it’s Bergman’s Wild Western film!
Your interpretation and perspective of it as a Wild Western film is hilarious and interesting! I'll try to search for that angle the next time I watch the Seventh Seal.
Those two depressing ones made a great impact on me despite them being hard to watch. I still remember, years later, the specific scenes that shocked me to the core. A testament to the power of Bergman's art.
Time to get to work on "Seventh Seal: The Broadway Musical." Who do you like for casting the role of Death: To appeal to that tourist and youth crowd, I think Ariana Grande would be fabulous!
Where's the new Mel Brooks when you need him? lol.
Her breakout hit from the musical could be, “Checkmate.”
We need a Plog and Lisa crooner, too! And a dance number with Jons!