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Article: A chess match with death.(Reel World)(Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal)(Column)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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IN OUR LAST INSTALLMENT, I shared a tongue-in-cheek look at some American film classics. Today, I would like to focus on celebrated foreign filmmaker Ingmar Bergman and his signature "The Seventh Seal" (1957). The Swedish director is synonymous with art house movies, unless you do not enunciate properly and then people think you said "Ingrid Bergman" and expect a detailed examination of "Casablanca" (1942).
Bergman's "Seventh Seal" (or, if you have your Swedish dictionary handy--"Det sjunde inseglet") put the art house movie on the map, or at least in that rundown theater over by the local college. The film is about a medieval knight (played by Max von Sydow, ...
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Article: The Seventh Seal (PG)
Belfast Telegraph;
July 20, 2007 ;
325 words
... ... The knight is tormented with doubt, and Death, a cloaked, whey- faced figure, comes ... he says. "You all say that," replies Death, with whom the knight then battles for ... search for meaning and the acceptance of death, all (or nearly all) of Bergman is in ...
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