Legendary Director Ingmar Bergman Dies
Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, who burst upon the '50s cinema scene with films like "Wild Strawberries" and "The Seventh Seal" and went on to become one of the world's most highly acclaimed auteurs, died Monday on the Baltic island of Faro at age 89.
Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, who burst upon the ’50s cinema scene with films like “Wild Strawberries” and “The Seventh Seal” and went on to become one of the world’s most highly acclaimed auteurs, died Monday on the Baltic island of Faro at age 89.
Rock Solid JournalismNew York Times:
Mr. Bergman dealt with pain and torment, desire and religion, evil and love; in Mr. Bergman’s films, “this world is a place where faith is tenuous; communication, elusive; and self-knowledge, illusory,” Michiko Kakutani wrote in The New York Times Magazine in a profile of the director. God is either silent or malevolent; men and women are creatures and prisoners of their desires.
For many filmgoers and critics, it was Mr. Bergman more than any other director who in the 1950s brought a new seriousness to film making.
In 2026, amid chaos and the nonstop flurry of headlines, Truthdig remains independent, fact-based and focused on exposing what power tries to hide.
Support Independent Journalism.
TD Original
Why a novelist gave the major Hollywood studios the brush in favor of a young first-time filmmaker with no money.
Film
At the 61st New York Film Festival, the marquee debuts interrogated partnerships and marriage.
Arts & Culture
A symposium.
In “A Woman Escapes," three directors present a pandemic-era experiment about the way we see the world.
A new documentary presents a cartoon version of the Marvel Comics storyteller's life.
Europe
Jonathan Glazer unsettles with “The Zone of Interest.”
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.