Another sad day... RIP Bergman...

Yet another film-maker legend has left us...

Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish film director/master, has died today at the age of 89.  An important figure in modern cinema, this master made over 50 films in his career, and many of his classics and masterpieces are well loved and admired by film students and film buffs: "Persona", "Cries and Whisper", "Seventh Seal", "Wild Strawberries"... the list just goes on... 

I still remembered watching "Persona" for the first time... it forever changed my view on film-making.  A while back, I even made a little short film called "A Rainy Day" as an homage to Bergman.  (The weirdest is, I was just talking about Bergman yesterday with my friend Dollan...  we were planning to go see "Seventh Seal" as it's being shown this week... I can't believe that he's just passed away today...)

There is a really good book written by Olivier Assayas and Stig Björkman, called "Conversation avec Bergman" ("Conversation with Bergman")... I'm sure they have an English version.  The French film-maker Assayas' interview with Bergman... it's so inspiring to read the two filmmakers chatting about cinema.  If you have time, definitely check it out:

First Edward Yang, now Bergman, one by one, these film legends have left us...  it's sad and makes me cherish cinema even more... and reminds me to keep on fighting what I believe in and not to give up and surrender to the "show business"...