Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DECADE AGO, Ingmar Bergman loathed critics. His unquestionably worst film, Not to Speak About All These Women (1964), was devoted to attacking a pathetic character who embodied the critic. In the late sixties, perhaps influenced by Liv Ullman, his lady at the time. Bergman warmed a bit and granted a few interviews. Even then it seemed he felt an interview was a chore, a quite unpleasant side effect of fame to be conducted with the smug assurance of the true artist...
...late as 1972, Bergman still played his games of aloofness. He told Birgitta Steene that he never thought about his past films. When Charles Thomas Samuels began his interview, Bergman admonished. "This way you've started will only keep us talking like two puppets discussing absolute nonsense...
What a different sort of dialogue is his interview with John Simon, '46, conducted while Bergman filmed The Touch (1971) but published for the first time in Ingmar Bergman Directs. Now we find two men joking with each other, categorizing directors as good or bad, feeding each other's prejudices...
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