One of the greatest film makers of all times, and one of the best late night TV talk show hosts have passed on. Still remember seeing Bergman’s Seventh Seal for the first time while tripping my face off sometime in 1970, and never being quite the same afterward. May be a good time to revisit that film again.
Here’s some biographical info on each…
so so sad. Ingmar Bergman was a true visionary and was one of the last of the great foreign cinema masters. One of the holy trinity of Frederico Fellini, Akira Kourasawa, and Bergman, the man helped reshape cinema and totally inspired some of the great 70’s auteur flicks. If you have not scene the Seventh Seal or Wild Strawberries, do yourself a favor and netflix that shit. Two of the finest films of all time.
RIP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz1b-GKEIKI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGSZkDqVoHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig7kdv6_IA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuswYF7_-JI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhqyg_dTaTg
Welp, I guess they do die in threes.
Bill Walsh, coach of the great '80s SF 49ers teams, died.
no kidding?
wow, that was out of the blue i guess.
i thought he was still with their organization.
He might have been like an advisor or consultant or something, but that was probably about it. He had been battling leukemia for a while now.
Too bad. One of the great offensive minds the NFL has ever seen.
Now Michelangelo Antonioni! What a week. MA was another great Italian director that has been credited, along with Fillini, with shifting Italian cinema away from the post war Neorealist period and into the more artsy abstract period. He also had Pink Floyd soundtrack one of his films. He is famous for rejecting a bunch of Floyd’s work for the movie including a very early version of what would become Us vs. Them. I guess visual artists aren’t the best judge of music…
I wish I knew who Michelangelo Antonioni was.
That would make me feel better about myself.
^You should look into it. Try Zabriskie Point for the soundtrack alone:
[edit] Original 1970 tracklist
Pink Floyd