Greg59
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A Treat For the Old Gregster.
Last night, on Turner Classic Movies, a.ka. TCM, they showed back to back Ingmar Bergman movies. It started off with "The Seventh Seal", then "Wild Strawberries (one of my favorites) and to top it off "Persona" Liv Ullman's first Bergman movie. Ah, bliss. I needed something like that. It doesn't take much.
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Re: A Treat For the Old Gregster.
A Bergman Paradise..
I have Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries on DVD, but it's nice to just watch them .. especially on TCM.
No commercials.. no breaks for Pledging like PBS.
And beautifully restored prints.. all uncut.
My favourite Bergman though is Virgin Spring (1960)
But every scene in the Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries is like a framed painting to me.
But then again - to me at least - there don't seem to be any real "scenes" in Wild Strawberries...
I mean. of course there are set scenes.. but the entire film flows so seamlessly from beginning to end that I'm never really aware of any sort of transitioning .. it just flows.. like a river.
God help my cable company if they ever decide to drop TCM...
There would be an armed rebellion.
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6/5/2009, 6:35 pm
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Oh, I agree. "Virgin Spring" was the first Bergman movie I truly understood. That's a great choice for a favorite.
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