To Bibi

The manuscript to The Seventh Seal is dedicated to the incomparable Bibi Andersson, turning eighty today.

Our heartiest congratulations!

En passion, Bibi Andersson, eng

Archival object of the day

Title:
The Seventh Seal : film / by Ingmar Bergman [with hand-written notes and sceneries]

Shelf no: B:202

Year: 1956

No of pages ; size: 128 pp., bound + suppl. ; 30 x 22 cm

Author: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007

Commentary:
Typewritten manuscript. Shooting script. Supplement 1: 6 pages with handwritten comments and 1 copy NAD, 5 pp. Supplement 2: Shooting schedule

No frills.

Look-alike of the day

Masaki Kobayashi, Ningen no joken (1959).

Dödsdans felvänd

Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (1957).

Dance of death through a glass darkly

One of the most iconic Bergman images is the dance of death at the end of The Seventh Seal. Just ‘the image’, not ‘the sequence’, as the still image has been spread so far and wide that it has taken on a life of its own. And yet, there’s something fishy going on here.

Look-alike of the day

Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo in Rome (HBO, 2005–07)

Det sjunde inseglet, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand

Antonius Block and Jöns the Squire in The Seventh Seal.

 

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