Word: bergmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...personification of the actor's director, Bergman will clear the set and spend an entire day in rehearsal if he feels his cast is unsure of a scene On closeups, he stands only inches from the actors' faces, mimicking the gestures and expressions he wants. "He choreographs all my moves," says Carradine, "but he can tell from my eyes or expression if I disagree. Then it is a matter of give-and-take, and he is wide open...
...Bergman contends that The Serpent's Egg "was a strange foreshadowing of my future A year before I wrote it, I began to feel that Farö [his beloved island in the Baltic Sea] was not mine any more. I had always thought that I'd live out my life there. But suddenly I felt that it and my possessions no longer belonged to me. I sensed that I would have to leave. A year later I wrote the script. Two months after I finished it, I was arrested [for tax evasion]. Looking back, I think I knew...
...teenager, Bergman, the son of a Lutheran minister, spent summers in Germany with the family of a minister who was a dedicated Nazi. In 1935 Bergman went with his hosts to a party rally in Weimar. Caught up in the frenzy that greeted Hitler's arrival, he shouted "Heil Hitler!" along with the rest. He admits: "I was a real little Nazi when I returned to Sweden after that summer, but the infatuation was short-lived. The period fascinates me; I knew I'd do a film about it some...
...Bergman drew on his youthful experiences for the film's biggest scene, a parade down a re-created Berlin street of 1923 -jokingly called the Bergmanstrasse. The day began dreadfully because the sun was shining for the first time in nearly a week, casting dark shadows over the mock buildings. "We are merely facing a catastrophe," the director said through clenched teeth. Some 450 extras clogged the streets, many crammed uncomfortably aboard antique buses...
...afternoon, the Bavarian sky finally clouded and the light seemed right. Because it was so late, two scenes were shot simultaneously, Nykvist filming from one end of the street and Bergman from the other. "We don't have to even talk any more on the set," Bergman says of Nykvist, who has worked with him on 18 films. "We instinctively know what we want." Nykvist is hard of hearing in his left ear and Bergman in his right. "When we talk," says the jolly Nykvist, "we look like a pair of geese doing a mating dance...