Swedish film director INGMAR BERGMAN has died, the Associated Press is reporting, citing local media. He was 89.
Starting his career in the early 1940s, he has been called the most prolific filmmaker of all time. He received nine Oscar nominations over the span of his career, including a Best Director nom for his last film, 'Fanny and Alexander,' in 1982.
He continued to write scripts for film and TV, and direct plays until his mid-80's.
The mutual torments of couples, the silence of God, the clash of theater and life, the festivity of life and the agony of death, idyllic dreams and terrifying nightmares, childhood innocence and adult violence: Ingmar Bergman captured all of these in films of astonishing beauty and power.
("Persona", 1965: Bibi Andersson and Liv Ulmann)His film work was definitely a well traveled journey, starting with early works like; Summer Interlude, Summer with Monica, Sawdust and Tinsel, and Smiles of a Summer Night, to middle works like The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, to the ferocious experiments of the 60s, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Persona, and The Silence, to his great dramas of the 70s and 80s like Cries and Whispers, Scenes from a Marriage, The Magic Flute, and Fanny and Alexander, to three films he wrote in the 90s but did not direct, about his parents: Sunday's Children, Best Intentions, and Private Confessions.
Black films?? No, but I don't know of a Black filmmaker who was not been influenced.