It is shaping up to be a bad week for film directors.
Director Ingmar Bergman dies
Legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89.
Ingmar Bergman found bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his indelible explorations of the human condition. He is regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema.
He grew up surrounded by religious imagery and discussion. His father was a rather conservative parish minister and strict family father: Ingmar was locked up in dark closets for infractions such as wetting the bed.
"I devoted my interest to the church’s mysterious world of low arches, thick walls, the smell of eternity, the colored sunlight quivering above the strangest vegetation of medieval paintings and carved figures on ceilings and walls. There was everything that one’s imagination could desire — angels, saints, dragons, prophets, devils, humans."
Ernst Ingmar Bergman was born on July 14, 1918, in the Swedish university town of Uppsala.
Michelangelo Antonioni, one of Italy's most famous and influential film-makers, has died in Rome aged 94.
Considered the cinematic father of modern angst and alienation, Antonioni had a career spanning six decades, which included the Oscar-nominated Blowup and the internationally acclaimed L'Avventura (The Adventure).
Antonioni has been described as a poet with a camera.
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