An OTBKB reader kindly sent me this. I didn’t see it and I am stunned. Stunned and sad that one of the greatest filmmakers to ever live has passed. He was 89. A very informative obituary is in the New York Times.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) — Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died Monday, the president of his foundation said. He was 89.
”It’s an unbelievable loss for Sweden, but even more so internationally,” Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman Foundation, which administers the directors’ archives, told The Associated Press.
Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden, Swedish news agency TT said, citing his daughter Eva Bergman. A cause of death was not immediately available.
My parents used to drag me to Bergman films when I was a little kid and forced me to sit through “The Virgin Spring” when all I wanted was cartoons & Disney movies. Bergman’s had bad associations for me ever since.