Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman (2/2)

[lamentate07]

Apparently Bergman likes Allen's films too.

Very few directors have made as many classics as Bergman.

My top 5, in alphabetical order: Cries and Whispers, Fanny and Alexander, The Seventh Seal, The Silence, Through A Glass Darkly.

Runners up(in no particuliar order): Persona(just outside my 5), Wild Strawberries(Ditto), Smiles Of A Summer Night, Winter Light, Scenes From A Marriage.

[melconiann]

love the way he describes this.. that Bergman made these inner states of emotion kinetic for the viewer. really puts words to the feeling of watching a bergman film. kinetic! high energy, highly dramatic, tense, palpable -- Bergman proves that the human face alone can evoke everything from apocalyptic despair to the hopeless depths of madness.

[viniciusb]

How can you not ask him what are the other 9 in his top 10?

[veinknamjenbi]

I watched the Seventh Seal immediately after watching Love and death.

[alfomar]

I've started watching movies of Bergman because of Woody Allen!

[ThaSubzstance]

i actually get mad when people tell me they dont know who ingmar bergman is.

[brokensticker]

wow, Persona isn't in Woody's top 4 Bergman pictures

[blowskiol]

@brokensticker I was aghast at that as well. Persona was one of Bergman's most Stygian and dark films, as well as a visual story arc; dialogue only gets used to express the differences of Alma and Vogler, but it really has a lot of silent elements to it I think... But wow, I am surprised at that missed choice. Maybe it would rank 5th for him.

[SpecialEd1975]

When Woody answers concerning Smiles of a Summer Night,it`s like he`s totally forgotten that he remade that film as A Midsummer Nights Sex Comedy.

[RonAlmeida]

Excellence in art can not be measured on a scale from 1 to 10 each one has his own identity and his way of expression. Just as every human is unique and different in spite of all the effort of social institutions to make us all stupid clones of one another.

[tittikka]

It's just a matter of taste!My favourite for example is "the silence".This doesn't mean that I like his other films less.ALL of them are of magnificent and what is true is that no one can reach Bergman 's excellent level.

[krforsvs]

i cant believe he didnt mention Persona (1966), Probably Bergmans best.

[And Bergmans Favourite Bergman film btw (along with Cries & Whispers (1972) AND wINTER lIGHT (1963) ]

[srimajumdar]

I liked through the glass darkly

[andydenson2000]

scenes from a marriage is a great bergman film as well.

[SonofDostojevskij]

What about Fanny and Alexander? His best film in my opinion.

[coyotesong]

@SonofDostojevskij  AGREED!!!

[paracel72]

Love Woody Allen. I heard that he and Ingmar called each other now and then.

[zeedzeed0]

im happy to come across this interview of woody.

[greenrate]

I always wonder about Woody Allen.

Can it be . . . that he hasn't come across even ONE person that truly embodies a more yea-saying view of life than his own?

Or . . . is he simply unable (unwilling?) to risk what it would take to open himself up to such a person?