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Director Ingmar Bergman was born 100 years ago today, on 14-July-1918.
Back in the 1970's, when I went to a lot of foreign films and revivals at the Lumiere, the Bridge, the Surf, the Golden Gateway, the Parkside, and many other houses in and around San Francisco, I didn't see many films by Ingmar Bergman. Perhaps I had bad timing, or perhaps Bergman was considered old fashioned.
Thinking about the Bergman movies that I have seen,
Wild Strawberries,
The Seventh Seal,
Autumn Sonata,
Fanny and Alexander,
Smiles of a Summer Night and others, I can't say that I have always enjoyed them, in the sense that they gave me pleasure, but I have always learned things about people and cinema. The happiest moment I can remember was in
The Magic Flute, with the throwaway shot of the dragon walking down the hall backstage.
