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...screening was held in a small theater off the rue d'Antibes, because this most film-savvy film - in part a homage to The Seventh Seal ("Ingmar Bergman's going to be jealous of this one," co-director Gilliam promised during the filming) - had not been deemed worthy of inclusion in the Festival proper. Such is the tardiness of official culture in understanding radical popular art. (The same thing happened this year with Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen, mocking the Festival's fabled history of topless starlets, paraded down the Croisette in a chartreuse G-string, but the film...
DIED. Sven Nykvist, 83, cinematographer whose subtle, naturalistic shaping of light over six decades and more than 100 films produced gems for directors from longtime colleague Ingmar Bergman (Cries and Whispers; Fanny and Alexander--both of which won Oscars for Nykvist ) to Woody Allen (Crimes and Misdemeanors); in Stockholm...
...delay in diplomatic engagement, the failure to press for an immediate cease-fire, the refusal to condemn Israel for heinous attacks on civilians and disruption of humanitarian relief: such tactics further reveal the Bush Administration's Middle East policy for the ethically bankrupt disaster it has always been. Charles Bergman Omaha, Nebraska...
...Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman The art-house film came of age in the late '50s with Janus' release of a dozen or so Bergman movies, particularly this medieval epic about a knight playing chess with Death during the plague years. As gaunt, handsome and stern as the face of its star, Max von Sydow, The Seventh Seal comes with an illuminating commentary by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie and a nifty short about the process of restoring the film...
...delay in diplomatic engagement, the failure to press for an immediate cease-fire, the refusal to condemn Israel for heinous attacks on civilians and disruption of humanitarian relief: such tactics further reveal the Bush Administration's Middle East policy for the ethically bankrupt disaster it has always been. Charles Bergman Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. The U.S. has shown that it is not serious about winning the war against terrorism. By refusing to act in the face of Israel's excessive use of military force against innocent Lebanese women and children, the U.S. has succeeded only in creating more Islamic militants. What...