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Tag Archives: Ingmar Bergman
big country: call of the wild
Its a great business model. He travels into the far north, the deep tundra, and paints wilderness from within. He has corporate sponsorship from parka to paint brush and he even carries a rifle to defend himself and sometimes his … Continue reading
santa maria: cantiga of the bad and bawdy
But the most astounding of all his books are the superbly illustrated manuscripts of the Cantigas de Santa Maria- the royal collection of poems in praise of the Virgin, which is one of the great art treasures of the Middle … Continue reading
unsparing visions of excess
Viridiana, a ferocious imagery that startled movie-goers at its time. The Left ethos that encapsulated everything from Le Chien Andalou ( 1929) , The Young One,The Damned, Stranger in the Room, The Roots, etc. Like Bergman and Fellini this was … Continue reading
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Tagged Bunuel Land Without Bread, Bunuel Viridiana, Chaplin City Lights, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, Frederico Fellini, Garcia de Quevedo, Ingmar Bergman, Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis Bunuel, Perez Galdos, Salvador dali
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angels and demons not included
Ingmar Bergman’s religious views, his particular spiritual ideology have always held interest because unlike a Dawkins or a Hitchens, there is always nuance and ambiguity to Bergman’s views, always a few hidden back door and small windows with cracks in … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, Atheism, August Strindberg, bibi anderson, Carl Jung, Christopher Hitchens, igmar bergman through a glass darkly, Ingmar Bergman, ingmar bergman the rite, Liv Ullmann, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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farewell to winter light
Ingmar Bergman and god. Antagonistic and at arm’s length and without resolution. A movement between finding security in the idea of god and then followed by severe and chronic bouts of doubt. Maybe its all about a desire for security, … Continue reading
i am curious yellow cheese
Lets go back to Ingmar Bergman. He once called Protestantism, “a wretched kettle of fish.” How to understand this Swedish pastor group and its anti-semitism? Bergman was always interested in the reasons, osbscure and unknowable behind unmotivated cruelty and the … Continue reading
seventh seal : sitting out the last dance
A dog-tired knight on his return journey from the Crusades travels through a country plagued by the plague where he meets, in a literal sense, death himself. Not death warmed over, but death. Unambiguous death in black and white. The … Continue reading
shutting out the dark area
Holding the traumatic moment; gripping it to prevent it from bounding into the realm of the spectacle. The culture of the spectacle, dazzled, doped and duped by its connection to technology where issues are dealt with as another aspect of … Continue reading
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Tagged amy winehouse, Andrew Potter, Bruce Nauman, Claude Monet, eino kyla, F.Scott Fitgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Ellul, Leah McLaren, Lucian Freud, paul mccarthy, Robert Redford, Stephen Marche, the great gatsby
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