RIP Michelangelo Antonioni (September 29, 1912 - July 30, 2007), aged 94 And RIP Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 - July 30, 2007), aged 89 You both will be remembered as legends.
It's shocking how this still applies today. It's taken me 10 years of serious filmmaking and writing to finally discover my voice, what I wanted to say, and how I wanted to say it, and I'm still learning. But because we live in the day of pretty pictures on Instagram we have more "photographers" and "directors" where most people are getting so focused on the technicals of things to make things "look cool." There's no voice though, there's no language. I believe it to be fear of being messy since those who want to be filmmakers want to go Hollywood but I'm excited for a new wave of independent cinema.
He is right ! Originality is scarce ! Also, the director is just a puppet of the film producers and financers. This is not Art ! Art shouldn't be compromised !
Years ago, HBO or SHOWTIME kept running Trust and The Unbelievable Truth at odd hours of the night. I was enamored with Adrienne. I just kept wanting to see her smile, which she never did in those Hal Hartley movies. Then, in Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me she finally did....and lit up the screen. Followed her ever since. I was heartbroken about her death. I just couldn't believe it.
I love Bergman, I really do. I've seen all of his films, even those made for TV. But I can't understand how he didn't like Antonioni. Of course Antonioni didn't made so many good films as Bergman, but he made really great films. I think Bergman was a little bit jealous of Antonioni because he saw his own movies reflected in the ones made by Antonioni. In his book "Pictures" (I don't know the name in English), Bergman dislike almost every single one of his films. I think that the movies made by Antonioni apply to these cases. Some are films that Bergman could have made and dislike after making them. This is my opinion, however, there are no facts here😅
@@mitocondriaUAU_ I also found funny he said: "Anronioni wasn't a technician". Antonioni was a much better image composer than Bergman, and you can even see how after L'Aventura, Bergman films got influenced by it.
He didnt talk shit you fuckin moron. You and others are kind of people who overanalyze everything. He didn't say anything bad. Its his perception. Respect it. Great people don't talk shit about other people. An artist respects another artist.
Awesome view!! He did pass within a couple hours of the show! Great to have seen Mr Welles was enjoying life to the fullest this night! Great interview!👍
Mr. Welles passed away two hours after this appearance. “His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!” - Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
@@wyattrussell7496 He went out for dinner after the show and went home after that, he typing up some scripts for a while and he made a phone call, he went to toilet but couldn't make it back to his bed, he grabbed a pillow and slept on the floor, that's where he was found the following morning by his driver at 10.00am :-( He was a legend 😞
Almost 40 years since Herzog ate his shoe and shared some insights about the world's problems from the standpoint of images, seizing the opportunity to do so... it resonates, unfortunately, on a greater scale this day and age. We need filmmakers, new image-grammar writers. Thank you, Wernie!
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Wow, I read the comments and you are all ridiculous. "He's better than him" "NO, this guy is better than that guy" "No way, besides he was his and favourite director" "No, HE was his favorit director" "No" "Yes" "NO" yada yada yada... And you guys think you know something about film? If you have a favourite director you need to take a step back and open up your mind to the possibilities of film. No one is better than the other, they're just different; comparing Bergman with Antonioni is like comparing an apple with a pear - it's useless and leads to nowhere. EDIT: I need to add that Bergman says "(Antonioni) made AT LEAST two masterpieces" not JUST two masterpieces. The subtitles are wrong.
I love and admired Adrienne RIP .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wXMeiR9B0tY.html This song& tribute is for her and everybody that loves her
It is astonishing how spot on Antonioni (& Berman) were about "the new young directors". We all know who they are. They are incredible technicians, they make us feel a lot. But do they have something to say? It is for their own generation to decide. It seems true that for one Bergman, one Kurasawa, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, or Truffaut there need to be a hundred new young, usually Hollywood film directors. Blockbusters are receding a bit now, but so many rhyme w a mono-syllabic grunt speaking only emptiness, but incoherently, so that the viewer felt full... if only for a moment. Ironically today, we go well back in time, to Jane Austin or Shakespeare (The Hollow Crown) to listen to what today's cinema has to say. Something the past has already said. Magnificently. We do it rather well. NB: Bergman used medieval settings in Virgin Spring & The Seventh Seal to say something v vital about his own time.
First time I saw this video, 4:46 seemed to me like an adequate image, like being able to appreciate an old tune like the original version of 'all the things you are' for what it is. Tis not like watching Christopher Walken holding a machine gun. Writing to me seems like a search for a new grammar of images. I'm not sure how far Herzog ever really achieved that, though. In his German films he seemed to raise questions without being able to offer answers. And since the 1990s, as a person, he has taken clowning to a whole different level. He is really a documentary maker rather than an artist/storyteller. But he can take a "secret mainstream" view of things, which can be refreshing.
