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...dream you can walk into any time you want to," gushes one of the Columbia Pictures secretaries who spend their lunch hours or coffee breaks on the set trying to catch glimpses of a cast that includes Charles Boyer, John Gielgud, Peter Finch, Sally Kellerman and Liv Ullman, Ingmar Bergman's most famous female star...
...accomplished can be seen in a delicious parody called Death Knocks, Woody's screwball homage to Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. In Allen's piece, the game is not chess but gin rummy, and the role of the crusader is played by Nat Ackerman, a dress manufacturer. Death refuses to pay for his losses. "Why should you need money?" Ackerman inquires. Death: "What are you talking about? You're going to the Beyond-you know how far that is?" Ackerman: "So?" Death: "So where's gas? Where's tolls...
...trash to skewer for his New York theater column, he's clearly much happier commenting on current film--which he does, at greater length, and for far less pay, in the pages of The New Leader. For his Harvard audience, Simon read a chapter from his forthcoming book on Ingmar Bergman--the director whom Simon reveres as the greatest in film history...
...camera has practically created a genre as the recording angel of disintegrating minds-the corroborating witness to the psychopathology of everyday life. Carnal Knowledge, Husbands, Straw Dogs all in different ways perform the basic ritual of the '70s film. Once an Ingmar Bergman specialty, the perfectly average man going a bit mad is now a stock character, taken for granted. Similarly, one no longer bothers to speak of the theater of the absurd as if it were an exotic fringe entity. The achievement of the Madness Revolution has been to make Beckett, Ionesco and Genet seem oldfashioned...
...remember a couple of films called Shame and The Passion of Anna, and how their director, Ingmar Bergman, viewed cowardly intellectuals set into primitive and violent surroundings, you can't help but think they're what Peckinpah schooled on for Straw Dogs. Bergman, developing his stories in narrative fragments and bursts of character self-analysis, built up a case for a tragic vision of man: isolated by nature from his fellow man, and by society from his better interests--those unions which can only be achieved through love, no matter how evanescent...