Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman (1/2)

[MrRazorblade999]

Woody Allen, humble as always. Gotta love the guy.

[cessnaace]

I am enjoying the interview. Thanks for uploading it. It's a shame about the general lack of civility among those posting comments. A sad commentary on our times.

STAY AWESOME! :)

[hack3rTrUsT]

Can anyone tell me what song plays in the begining of the video?

[paxmanhorn20]

@hack3rTrUsT Bach: Cello Suite #2 - Sarabande. It's a wonderful work. :)

[SomethingReal1119]

can anyone tell me when this interview was done? thanks!

[Hermoor]

I love bergman's movies, they are so beautiful and reminds us of a time when sweden wasn't infested by muslim religion, crime and popular culture. I'm from sweden btw and I don't hate my country just the media and the muslims.

[jimruthless]

@Hermoor its stupid racists like you that makes this country shitty. Bergman wasnt a racist. If you have those stupid views, you cant even understand his movies. go and watch Beck, you stupid fuck.

[Hermoor]

@jimruthless Oh lol look, a typical super liberal swede. Screaming racist if I ever mention religion, I'm not a racist you dumb fuck. I have nothing against apperance or skin colour. However our popular culture is a retardation of the human mind and so is religion. Remove religion and our retarded media and the country would be much better.

[jimruthless]

@Hermoor typical SD-voting retard, you probably never even spoke to a muslim in your whole life..

[Hermoor]

@jimruthless I actually was attacked by one on the street in broad daylight. I have met muslims, some of them are good some of them are bad. But their religion is bad, and it turns some of the muslims into really really bad racist people. Their culture can't live together with the western culture, that is why muslims in sweden is a really really bad idea. Their skin color isn't a problem, their religion is.

[hampusheh]

@Hermoor You know Islam has coexisted in Europe since the 12th century? And you know one of the founding principles of Sweden is freedom of religion? You're talking absolute nonsense and it's biased because you were attacked by one, just like feminists who hate men because she was raped. No reason or logic, just pure emotional dislike

[Hermoor]

@hampusheh Well unlike some I know a thing or two about their holy book, among other things it sais all non believers should be beheaded or killed...who attacks Islam. That could be interpeted as everyone who isn't muslim and sais Islam is wrong is attacking them. That is btw why we have people around the world blowing themself up and beheading cartoonists. The problems with Islam didn't start at 9/11 it has existed a long time before that, Islam can't coexist with the west.

[hampusheh]

@Hermoor Pure non-sense, the Bible has many calls to murder women, children and homosexuals. It's an old fucking book, written during dark times of war, just like the Quran. Only a narrow-minded bigot would believe that the only reason somebody commits terrorism has to do with religion, it's much more a psychological/social issue of alienation. Like Anders Brehvik. But I (unlike you) don't say that this is Christianity or the bible's fault.

[Hermoor]

@hampusheh The ones who flew planes into the twin towers were university educated WEALTHY men. The man who blew himself up in Stockholm less than a year ago was a wealthy family man...everyone got social problems, not everyone are blowing themself up. If it wouldn't be for the quoran nothing of this would happen. The only reason chritians aren't stoning people...is because of the rules and morals of SECULAR people. The west was like the middle east 200 years ago...we have grown past the bible.

[Hermoor]

@hampusheh All suicide bombings are inspired by the quoran. Islam is the problem nothing else...you got a warped view of reality.

[hampusheh]

@Hermoor How do you explain the abortion bombings in the US then? That's inspired by the bible. The notion that people were fine and moral until they read the Quran just shows how idiotic you are. I'm done with you, there's nothing to be gained in arguing with a dribbling, bigoted retard who spends 90 % of his time trying to justify why he dislikes brown people on the internet.

[AlenaJolie]

@hampusheh The Bible may be an old book but to say it's outdated means you don't have any knowledge of it. It claims to be the infallible word of God. Written as men were breathed on by the Holy Spirit. John 1:1 says, "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was WITH GOD, and the Word WAS GOD." Therefore it is full of His Power and it is truth because God is truth. I find it amazing that someone thinks they're an expert on a book they probably have never read.

[hampusheh]

@AlenaJolie I shouldn't respond to this clap-trap, but whatever, I'm in the mood to talk to nutters. I never said it's outdated, clearly people still find some connection to it, although a lot of Leviticus is never talked about today. I never claimed I was an expert on the bible, where did you get that from? I actually like the bible but it's people like you who destroy it by claiming that it holds some kind of divine truth. It's a book written by men, that's all it is.

[dpthomas37]

@hampusheh "The sufferings of Christ cannot of course be understood intellectually, since the divine and the humane must be held together in the mind, and this is possible only for faith. Intellectually we can cause our minds to pay attention, but there comes a moment when we must cry: 'Now believe! Cast yourself down in adoration and believe!'" - Kierkegaard.

[dbnovaro]

nevermore a film made in black and with will be so sense.

[dbnovaro]

During the scene of chess play on begining of the movie, realize wich the dark clouds take over of 80 per cent of photogram, the opression, the demise of human being belif wich will be domain you soul till the end of film.

[dbnovaro]

Wild strawberries has a such lush fhotografh on noltagics scenes, fact.

[shippa7]

@drexxar100 you missed the part where he digressed and said asian cinema citing Kurosawa

[Sage80]

the only less impressive director than bergman is allen.

[furryfreak]

Sage80 you're an absolute idiot. Go troll somewhere else.

[pretorious700]

@furryfreak contrarians are so self absorbed, and well, boring.

[NYCBG]

Jesus, Swedish language has this incredible lilt... up and down, up and down... Still, it always ends on the "DOWN". Maybe that has something to do with the generally depressive mood in Bergman's and other Swedish authors' films? Or the high rate of suicide in Sweden, despite one of the best living standards in the world?

Up and down... up and down... and then DOWN.

[matforsbon]

@NYCBG As a swede I have to point out a misconception, that is about our suicide rate being so high. In Europe we are in fiifteenth place, so really it is a myth. 

[NYCBG]

@matforsbon I appreciate your answer. Could you, please, identify the source of your info? Many thanks.

[matforsbon]

@NYCBG My source is the internet which is available for anyone. I hate when people say do you have proof for that statement, what is your source and so on, well this is Internet and not a courtroom, you look it up yourself if you want to check up accuracy of my claims.

[NYCBG]

@matforsbon There's all kinds of crap on the internet. Anyone can post anything. So, why is it so difficult to identify your source? Just say/write, "whatever. com" and you will have made your point.

[LLiivveeeevviiLL]

@NYCBG

Try

faktoider.nu/swedicides.html

You got to translate it, but there are means to get a understandable translation online.

[dbnovaro]

understand the nordic mithology and history of sweenden folks then perhaps yours argumentations will be sheltered.

[NYCBG]

@dbnovaro Sheltered??? WTF?

[0981462]

A genius talking about another genius. How to dislike it???

[ThaSubzstance]

persona. Masterpiece.

[idic5]

when was this interview recorded?

[blowskiol]

@idic5 2003, during the time Bergman was directing Saraband.

[dovestones]

Its the Bergman season on Film4. I'm enjoying them all. Next is Summer Interlude.

[clemdane]

I saw Fanny och Alexander aged 13 when it first came out and I became Bergmans' for life.

[kurtpitt]

i love woody allen. he is my fav and i hv immensely enjoyed wtchin Annie hall,Hannah and her sisters, Manhattan and crime and misdemeanor. as for bergman i have beeen just introduced to him by woody interviews and even though i love his movies as well i still think i hv long way to go to comprehend its essence

[Trudeau7900]

I can thank Woody Allen for introducing me to Bergman's work. I still think that "Cries and Whispers" is one of the greatest films I have ever seen. And I would put "Persona" right up there as well. His work is stunning.

[reallyfullofmyself]

..lol..happens to me all the time..-oh you've GOT to see this/that movie..it's GREAT! and after so much convincing i sit there thinking..yeah, "great"..(and i'm bored stiff!!)..

Happens especially with Hollywood movies..American directors just do not seem to be capable of coming up with story boards and endings without you knowing EXACTLY how the movie will end after having seen five minutes of the beginning. A "great" movie these days seems to be classified according 2 -special effects. Boring.

[RonAlmeida]

@reallyfullofmyself Reminds me how as a kid I used to first read the end of the book and went back to the begining only if it had a happy end. Yes the world is getting shallower all the time, I wonder why? I suppose its partly due to the fact that we are getting to be clones of the lowest common denominator. Why do we not revolt against it instead of being manipulated by it? I find it extreme in the English speaking world, a characterless, monolingual melting pot of mediocrity.

[lpasepok]

I've always found the Seventh Seal to be more of a comedy than anything else.

[deadlyorgans]

Bergman is a legend 

[petkragh]

Argh, this interviewer is a bore. He obviously takes himself very seriously, and thinks his questions are quite profound. "The ar-che-ty-pal movie about death." Try to have a conversation, man.

[whbuckeye33]

@petkragh Actually Kermode is Britains most respected film critic and the most knowledgeable and entertaining working today

[petkragh]

@whbuckeye33 Good to hear he's not a complete idiot. In this interview he seems like a parody of a movie critic.

[paracel72]

liv ullman was hot

[luomupunajuuri]

It's a pity neither men, despite having sat through hours of Bergman's movies, have taken a minute or two to find out how to pronounce the director's name properly.

[TheRedHippie74]

@luomupunajuuri that doesn't mean nothing. The way to say the name changes from language to language.

[cys12141]

Why do you have a picture of Steven Prince as your display picture? Prince was in Martin Scorsese's documentary American Boy.

[matthaufan97]

this is very interesting and a really good interview

[antoniorossiz]

thanks for posting this