Word: bergman
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...masterly Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, who found both humor and despair in the human psyche, redefined cinema worldwide. He was 89. (See Arts for an Appreciation of Bergman by Woody Allen...
TIME: Young people who saw Bergman's films in the '50s were often overwhelmed with an almost religious conviction. And the religion was that film...
...created indelible allegories of postwar man adrift without God. He was the movies' great dramatist of strong, tortured women and the finest director of actresses. More than any other filmmaker, he raised the status of movies to an art form equal to novels and plays. Yet when Ingmar Bergman died at 89, the popular description of him was, Woody Allen's favorite director...
...domineering Swedish tragedian and the nebbishy American comedian have in common? Plenty. Both created original scripts from their experiences and obsessions. Both worked fast--at least a movie a year for most of their long careers--and relatively cheap. Both forged long relationships with their sponsoring studios. And Bergman was a strong influence on Allen's work: from his New Yorker parody of The Seventh Seal ("Death Knocks," in which the hero plays not chess with Death but gin rummy) to a cameo by the Grim Reaper in Love and Death and, more deeply, the inspiration for the theme...
...someone who hadn't seen any of his films asked you to recommend just five, what would be your Bergman starter...