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

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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