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Both Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni, to giants of film in my opinion (Bergman is hands down my favorite director) died this week. Rather than write up obituaries for them I thought I would defer to Mental Floss who do an excellent job and even tracked down a YouTube clip of a scene in Wild Strawberies.

“Attention legendary auteurs of world cinema: please stop dying! In the past two days, we’ve lost two of the best — Swedish director Ingmar Bergman and Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni — and if death keeps swinging his cinema scythe at this rate, we’ll be down to the likes of Spielberg in a week or two.”

“While both were highly respected filmmakers in their own right, Bergman was undoubtedly the giant of the two. American filmmaker Paul Schrader (he wrote Taxi Driver) said of his passing, ‘It’s impossible for anyone of my generation not to have been influenced by Bergman.’ High praise indeed, and not far from the mark: you see his trademark all over today’s movies, but perhaps nowhere more clearly, I will argue, than in dream sequences.”

“David Lynch could never be called derivative, but watching Eraserhead feels like you’re watching a feature-length version of one of Bergman’s dream sequences.”

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