Word: bergmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jittering between them like an arc of electricity between positive and negative poles is Robert Duvall as the older predator. Lashing out with desperate nihilism, Duvall crackles with the quality that Ingmar Bergman once said he looked for above all others in an actor: danger...
...Finally Bergman's crowd scene got into motion. Using dusk light for dawn, he shot tired Berliners plodding to work at the first light of morning-normality amid pending catastrophe -while buses, trolleys, cars and carts clattered around the curving street. At the other end of the set, Nykvist shot Carradine pushing through the crowds to arrive at Manuela's cabaret at twilight. The realism was enhanced by a cold rain that began to splash on cars and pedestrians. Soon the street lights were turned on and the final take of the parade...
...Bergman arched the fatigue out of his shoulders and watched the street quickly clear of frozen extras and old cars. He never goes out during filming. He is a television addict who keeps logs on programs (his favorite is the latest Upstairs, Downstairs). "At the end of a shooting day," he says, "I'm often so tired you could put me into a black box. And yet, going home to my family seems a kind of intrusion. I have an urge to stay right here at the studio, sleep on a cot and stay with the project...
...does not in fact do that. He even entertains his cast and crew with movie screenings. Liv Ullmann laughs as she recalls how much Bergman enjoyed Jaws: "We teased him, telling him how a young director like Steven Spielberg worked so hard on the open seas trying to get a mechanical fish to work, while he, ever the lazy director, liked to sit in a room with two women and watch them...
...Bergman's recent screenings was of Nickelodeon, a story about the very earliest days of film making. At the point when Ryan O'Neal, playing an inexperienced director, walks onto a set, confronts dubious actors and crew members and mutters, "What do I do now?" Bergman howled with laughter and shouted, "That's it exactly! That's exactly how I feel...