Ingmar Bergman Passed Away

Born on July 14, 1918, Bergman was a massively influential director, breaking through into prominence in the 1950s, and with a cinematic peak that endured from the 60s through to the 80s. The prolific filmmaker was active right into old age, making the well-received Swedish telefilm Saraband in 2003.
Some highlights from the filmography of the genius include: The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Fanny And Alexander, Scenes From A Marriage, Winter Light, Hour Of The Wolf, and Through a Glass Darkly, among several other masterpieces. Three of his movies won Academy Awards for best foreign language film and one, ``Fanny and Alexander'' in 1982, grabbed four awards. It was also the beginning of a 21-year hiatus in his film making.
Before spending his final years in seclusion on the windswept Baltic island of Faaroe, Bergman made his last film, ``Saraband,'' in 2003. It was greeted in a review by Time magazine as ``the last roar from a legend,'' a work that showed he was still ``the greatest living filmmaker,'' with a gift for finding ``universal significance in his private agonies.''
Words of Bergman will always resonate in our heart: ""Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."
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