Word: bergman
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...After long admiring Bergman, you finally met him, through Liv Ullmann, who had starred in many of his films and lived with him for a few years...
...fair to say you're first and foremost a Bergman guy, and that you have been for 50 years. There were a lot of young people in the '50s who saw Bergman's films - usually it was The Seventh Seal - and were overwhelmed with an almost religious conversion. And the doctrine of this religion was that film...
...agree. For me it was Wild Strawberries. Then The Seventh Seal and The Magician. That whole group of films that came out then told us that Bergman was a magical filmmaker. There had never been anything like it, this combination of intellectual artist and film technician. His technique was sensational...
...Later, he'd speak to me by phone from his oddball little island [Faro, where Bergman lived his last 40 years]. He confided about his irrational dreams: for instance, that he would show up on the set and not know where to put the camera and be completely panic-stricken. He'd have to wake up and tell himself that he is an experienced, respected director and he certainly does know where to put the camera. But that anxiety was with him long after he had created 15, 20 masterpieces...
...knew he was Ingmar Bergman, but maybe he didn't. He didn't get to view his reputation from the outside...