Entries Tagged as ‘death’

July 31, 2007

Crazy dreams and chess matches: A farewell to Ingmar Bergman

Sad news today. The great Ingmar Bergman died today at the age of 89. The cause of death: unknown.
Sadder yet is the fact that we have no Ingmar Bergmans making his kind of films today. The man was genius at making every sound, every shot, every word of his films sing with meaning. Funny, since meaninglessness [...]

April 28, 2007

The face of frailty: or, Roger Ebert is my hero

I’ve been processing McLaren’s book a little more, hoping that my next post about it will be a little more, well, sensible. In the meantime, there is a story I wanted to discuss. 
Roger Ebert is my hero.
He has been for a while now, because I love movies, and I’ve found that he is looking for [...]