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Article: Film: When Woody met Ingmar Nearly 50 years ago, Woody Allen saw his first film by Ingmar Bergman and immediately became a passionate admirer. He tells MARK KERMODE why the Swede remains for him the greatest director
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2002
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Everything I know about "high" culture I learnt from "low-brow"
art. Fact. I would never have heard of Heidegger, Kant or Nietzsche
if their names hadn't featured in a rude Monty Python song, which
included the wonderful couplet: "Rene Descartes was a drunken fart,/
I drink therefore I am." I would never have read TS Eliot's "The
Hollow Men" if Marlon Brando hadn't started slurring his way through
it at the climax of Coppola's Apocalypse Now (ditto Conrad's Heart of
Darkness). And I certainly would not have made an early connection
with the films of the Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman were it not for
the fact that my favourite American comedian, Woody Allen, kept
littering his movies and ...
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... ... Cineman Syndicate 01-01-1994 Movie Review: THE SEVENTH SEAL Starring: Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand ... Star Rating (of 4): **** Director: Ingmar Bergman, Rated ? Ingmar Bergman's Haunting allegorical drama is a one-of ...
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