Reason Writers Around Town

August 13, 2007

The Cinematheque asks 20 writers, including Reason's Jesse Walker, to pick their favorite Ingmar Bergman films.

Comments

|8.13.07 @ 12:20PM|#

Choosing a favorite Bergman film would be like choosing a favorite Indian folk singer. Impossible!

|8.13.07 @ 12:28PM|#

I don't think it's on DVD, so that probably counts for some of the reason that it is never mentioned, but From the Life of the Marionettes is great later period Bergman.

|8.13.07 @ 12:44PM|#

I'm with Max on that one...btw-Woody Allen did a great article on Bergman in the NYT recently.

poco|8.13.07 @ 1:23PM|#

Which is here. (Missed that y'day; thanks for the tip.)

|8.13.07 @ 2:36PM|#

I don't understand the mini-hate on for The Seventh Seal. I can see preferring Persona or Wild Strawberries or Fanny and Alexander, but it is a stone-cold classic of world cinema. Everybody is hipper-than-thou these days, I guess. Next up: The White Sheik = Best Fellini film? Steel Wheels = Best Stones album? George W. Bush = Most Underrated President?

Jesse Walker|8.13.07 @ 2:50PM|#

I don't understand the mini-hate on for The Seventh Seal.

What hate? Yeah, one guy claimed not to like it, but it did finish third.