tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post8595683939877616216..comments2024-03-23T16:19:36.154+05:30Comments on A Potpourri of Vestiges: The Seventh Seal (1957): Legendary Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman’s existential masterpiece that depicts the epic battle of life and deathMurtaza Ali Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09747183316188241022noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-41691141336068927512012-06-06T18:49:49.109+05:302012-06-06T18:49:49.109+05:30Thanks Bhavana for those kind words! The movies ma...Thanks Bhavana for those kind words! The movies made by greats like Kurosawa, Fellini, Bergman, Bunuel, Tarkovsky demand such type of deep and detailed analysis. I feel burdened when I am not able to justify their cinematic brilliance and supremacy as art. Btw, the idea of a movie club is a tempting one... maybe sometime in the near future we can actaully formulate something on those lines :-PMurtaza Alihttp://www.apotpourriofvestiges.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-14021350090214327632012-06-06T12:42:42.465+05:302012-06-06T12:42:42.465+05:30Your post is always so rich in content-it is dense...Your post is always so rich in content-it is dense and deep and well written. I wish you were in my city and we had a movie club and you could give lectures before and after the movie. It would make the reading so much enriching! Now it is hard for me to follow without watching Seventh Seal again--I watched it long time back...:(Bhavana Upadhyayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-26243511907458909712012-06-05T14:40:50.455+05:302012-06-05T14:40:50.455+05:30Thanks Shantanu for those kind words! I had watche...Thanks Shantanu for those kind words! I had watched it for the first time about 3 years back and being new to such kind of thought-provoking cinema I was caught in a kind of a limbo. It took me some time to come to terms with it's through might and power. I have been wanting to review it for some time, but couldn't muster the courage. Finally, I decided to watch it again... and to my surprise, I ended up having an experience of a lifetime. Thinks appear so different and so clear! I had followed a similar approach for Tarkovsky's Stalker and it had been of great help. Btw, you are absolutely right about the latent hope in Bergman's works despite the apparent pessimism that they seems to propagate. Murtaza Alihttp://www.apotpourriofvestiges.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-9737005742248748782012-06-05T05:39:00.566+05:302012-06-05T05:39:00.566+05:30Great Post Mutrtaza !! I really enjoyed all the in...Great Post Mutrtaza !! I really enjoyed all the info in the first few paragraphs. Even I always thought of Seventh Seal as the movie that made Bergman Bergman, if you know what I mean.<br /><br />I saw The Seventh Seal very recently. For some reason, I always thought it will not be very accessible like other more famous Bergman's work Persona or Cries and Whisper. But I was surprised to see how accessible it was, especially as you said for a movie that typified art cinema. One more thing that I also appreciate about it is A movie that is essentially about Death, there is so much hope in it. Scene in which they are all sitting around, drinking milk and eating wild strawberries really has made a great impact on me. SDGhttp://umeandfilms.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com