the master, the melodrama; bergmanorama!
WINTER LIGHT (INGMAR BERGMAN, 1962)
fuck yeah, bergman!
“ Dear Mr. Rossellini, I saw your films “Open City” and “Paisan,” and I enjoyed them very much. If you need a Swedish actress who speaks English very well, who has not forgotten her German, who is not very understandable in French, and who in Italian knows only ‘ti amo,’ I am ready to come and make a film with you. ”
Ingrid Bergman’s letter to Roberto Rossellini (via misswallflower)
Bengt Ekerot as Death in The Seventh Seal (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman)
“Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.”
File Under: Last minute costume ideas for dour film majors
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“The Dance of Death”, The Seventh Seal (1957, dir. Ingmar Bergman) (via theauteurs.com)
Can’t not reblog this one. Still one of the greatest films of all time.
fucking haunting
Dreams, 1955
“Two women, a fashion editor nearing her mid-thirties and a model who’s just twenty, go to Gothenburg for a photo shoot. Suzanne calls her lover, desperate to see him. Doris, the model, is stopped on the street by an elegant older man who offers to buy her the gown she is eyeing in a boutique window. Later that day, each women meets up with her man, and seduction seems imminent until each is interrupted by another woman, in one case, a wife, in another, a daughter. Desire and self-respect, aging and failure play out in both encounters. Suzanne and Doris look for lessons learned, and an unlikely friendship evolves.”
