Famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman died Monday morning at his home in Sweden. Bergman was one of the world's greatest filmmakers, along with legends like Godard, Fellini and Kurosawa, he can be said to have revealed the potentials of cinema as an art form as much as an individual in film's short history. He was best known for his personal, tormented films on the human psyche, movies as divergent as meditations on mental illness, familial abuse and plague. He broke barriers, broke the fourth wall, and created what we consider cinema as much as Griffith did. Making films up until his continuation of 'Scenes from a Marriage,' 'Saraband,' in 2003, and writing a TV play in 2005. His death is great loss to art in the world at large. Woody Allen noted, in 1988, that Ingmar Bergman was "the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera."
This week, in the reviews section, look for the other two parts of his trilogy (along with Through a Glass Darkly, that was published last week) as tribute to his passing, as well as his close friend and frequent cinematographer, whom also passed this month, Sven Nykvist.
Woody Allen discusses Bergman's genius. From the New York Times
Click here for a photo essay of Bergman's career from The Gaurdian.
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