{"id":1425,"date":"2009-03-06T18:04:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-07T01:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/03\/the-authoritative-bergman\/"},"modified":"2009-03-06T18:07:15","modified_gmt":"2009-03-07T01:07:15","slug":"the-authoritative-bergman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/06\/the-authoritative-bergman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Authoritative Bergman"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Spectator UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Ingmar Bergman Archives<\/h1>\n

Wednesday, 29th October 2008<\/p>\n

Peter Hoskin<\/a><\/p>\n

THE INGMAR BERGMAN ARCHIVES<\/p>\n

Edited by Paul Duncan and Bengt Wanelius<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Taschen, 592pp, \u00a310<\/p>\n

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Like the crusader knight in Ingmar Bergman\u2019s The Seventh Seal (1957), we all eventually lose our chess game with Death. And that includes Bergman himself, who passed away only last year, leaving an immense cinematic void as he did so. He bequeathed us 62 films, a good proportion of which are among the greatest and most enigmatic art works of the 20th century.\u00a0 We will, quite simply, never see their like again.<\/span>
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Taschen\u2019s immense book, The Ingmar Bergman Archives, feels, then, like something of a final eulogy to the man and his art. If so, what an elegant and loving one it is. Each of Bergman\u2019s films receives due attention, with essays, still photographs and new material from the director\u2019s own archives. The package is rounded off with a DVD of the director\u2019s home movies and a still from his masterwork, Fanny and Alexander (1982).<\/span>
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Perhaps the only thing that can do justice to Bergman\u2019s remarkable life and career is the cinematic work itself. But Taschen\u2019s hefty tome comes close. It is the most comprehensive book on the Swedish master currently available, and I doubt it will ever be surpassed.<\/span><\/p>\n

[ click to read at The Spectator<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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