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...from their experiences and obsessions. Both worked fast--at least a movie a year for most of their long careers--and relatively cheap. Both forged long relationships with their sponsoring studios. And Bergman was a strong influence on Allen's work: from his New Yorker parody of The Seventh Seal ("Death Knocks," in which the hero plays not chess with Death but gin rummy) to a cameo by the Grim Reaper in Love and Death and, more deeply, the inspiration for the theme and tone of Interiors and Another Woman. Shooting his new film in Spain, Allen took time...
WOODY ALLEN: I agree. For me it was Wild Strawberries. Then The Seventh Seal and The Magician. We knew that Bergman was a magical filmmaker. There had never been anything like it, this combination of intellectual, artist and film technician...
...right. That was his obsession. He was brought up religiously [his father was a Lutheran minister], and he longed for the possibility of religious phenomena. That longing tortured him his whole life. But in the end, he was a great entertainer. The Seventh Seal, The Magician, they grip you. It's not like doing homework...
...Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, Cries and Whispers and Persona...
...becoming something of a tradition for U.S. Presidents, during their waning months in office, to seal their legacy by trying to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict. That's the purpose of President George W. Bush's sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a four-day swing through the Middle East, ending up, as usual, in the holy city of Jerusalem, which remains the key to many of the region's unsolved quarrels. But the President's attempt to succeed where Bill Clinton failed looks likely to achieve, at best, mixed results...