Stockholm to name street after BergmanSource: thelocal.se
The city of Stockholm plans to rename a street after the late Swedish cinema legend Ingmar Bergman, who died last July at the age of 89.
Culture Bytes: An Existential Road Trip Source: Pajamas Media
PJM's David Freeman treats himself to Wild Strawberries, a "touchstone of the cinema" and a prime example of the ageless magic of the recently deceased film genius Ingmar Bergman.
Film legend Ingmar Bergman buried - Yahoo! News UKSource: Yahoo! News
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Film legend Ingmar Bergman was buried on Saturday on his home island in the Baltic sea at a private funeral attended by family and close friends, Swedish media reported.
Before Them, Films Were Just MoviesSource: The New York Times
In their prime, Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman were seen as the twin embodiments of the idea that a filmmaker could be, without qualification or compromise, a great artist.
Roger Ebert: Defending Ingmar Bergman Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Excerpt: "I have long known and admired the Chicago Reader's film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum, but his New York Times op-ed attack on Ingmar Bergman ("Scenes from an Overrated Career," 8/4/07) is a bizarre departure from his usual sanity.
Before them, films were just moviesSource: International Herald Tribune
Excerpt :"By an awful and uncanny coincidence — the kind of occurrence that, in a movie, would have to be taken as symbolic lest it seem altogether preposterous — Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman died on the same day.
Film Critic David Edelstein on the death of Ingmar BergmanSource: New York Magazine
Excerpt:"Of all the thoughts that pour into my head on the death of Ingmar Bergman at the age of 89, the sharpest has as much to do with theater as cinema — or, rather, with the feverish interplay between the two media that persisted into the final years of his roiling psyche.
Swedes on Bergman: We Never Appreciated How Big He WasSource:
The Swedish film world has been paying its tributes to film director Ingmar Bergman, who died on Monday at the age of 89.
"It feels empty. This was not so unexpected, but it feels gloomy," said veteran Swedish film critic Nils Petter Sundgren.
Swedish Film Director Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89Source: The Washington Post
Ingmar Bergman, an Academy Award-winning Swedish writer-director whose name came to define an entire genre of stark movies about the human condition, such as "The Seventh Seal," "Wild Strawberries" and "Persona," has died at his home at the age of 89, Swedish media reported Monda …