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...Martin does music, and hopefully, the producers are covered. Nice try. Live and Let Die is a nice night's entertainment, only if you're the kind of person who drives miles for a Bond triple feature at a drive-in, or you're tired of spending money on Bergman. But it's an idea whose time has passed
Craig's women are portrayed as cunning, deceitful and expendable. Leave them for a few hours and they feel they have been deserted. Craig likes to drop big names, from Bobby Kennedy to Ingmar Bergman. At one point, who should appear in a Cannes restaurant but Pablo Picasso, "bull-like vitality ... great naked head" and all. Forced to look at Shaw's hero from a painter's perspective, Picasso sees "a lonely fellow human being moving painfully across an empty canvas." More than likely he spotted a slightly stale, rich novelist doodling on a tablecloth...
...each new book does resemble the previous ones. But who can object? Only those boors who complain that all Bach fugues sound alike, that London looks too much like New York, that Ingmar Bergman has made one film two dozen times. There is only one way to respond to such people. Refuse to see them and stop answering their phone calls...
DUNSTER DINING HALL, Ingmar Bergman's Naked Night...
Cries and Whispers. Describing a tissue of lies surrounding human relations, Ingmar Bergman moulds an emotional, womb-like turn-of-the-century world where two sisters and a servant attend the third sister just before her death. The whispers which make up life and the cries which punctuate it lead nowhere; the daying woman finds joy before her death because her family is near, but this lyrical glimmer is not a way out for those still alive. Bergman's most recent film, in color, with brilliant cinematography by Sven Nykvist. 1972. The Naked Night. During a single day's action...