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Article: INGMAR BERGMAN, 1918-2007 SWEDISH DIRECTING LEGEND ELEVATED FILM TO ART.(Life and Arts)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- July 31, 2007
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Byline: WILLIAM ARNOLDP-I movie critic
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died Monday at age 89, was the very embodiment of the idea that a film artist could work on the same level - and with the same psychological intimacy - as a great poet, novelist or playwright.
He was the last survivor of that small, select school of international directors who came to prominence after World War II and collectively created the art-film market of the '50s and '60s - a group that included Japan's Akira Kurosawa, Italy's Federico Fellini and France's Francois Truffaut.
In a Seattle interview six years ago, Woody Allen - who frequently gave homage to ...