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Ingmar Bergman, Director: 1918-2007

Another giant of foreign cinema is gone. Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman has died atĀ age 89.
Between Kurosawa, Fellini and Bergman, the three ‘big ones’ who helped reintroduce American movie audiences to foreign film 1950s, I came to Bergman last. I discovered Kurosawa in high school, probably because so many of his films had an approachable action bent. [...]