Hello Film Fans! Each Friday I like to go through the top film blog posts and pull out some of the best blog posts and articles of the week past and highlight them in 6 Degrees Magazine. This week there are film reviews in our magazine for Sorry to Bother You, The Equalizer 2 and Rogerebert.com does a rundown of the Mission: Impossible movies.
One of my favorites from this past week is from Film Comment about director Ingmar Bergman and his body of work. Although he stopped making movies way back in 1982, his filmography of over 40 films continued to impact directors for decades. The writer speaks of Bergman being liberated when he announced that Fanny and Alexander would be his last film, saying “Bergman was devoted to a cinema liberated from cinema….and added that Bergman is revered in French cinema. “Though an icon of the New Wave,…it is to the next generation that he would serve as a magnetic north.”
The Film Comment writer, Olivier Assayas, goes on to bemoan the lack of psychoanalysis in cinema today (certainly there is no one worthy of Bergman’s insight and skillful dissection of human nature.) Assayas writes “…cinema, which examines the soul through the features of its performers and records both silence and speech,…has always been the best path to approach the chasms of the unconscious’ Bergman certainly did carve a pathway through the human psyche with unique perceptions and there is no one in cinema today that explores the intimate levels of conscious to unconscious thought layer by layer in the same manner as Bergman. This is a recommended read.
Next week we’ll look at some of the big releases coming out in August, as well as the recommended recordings for our continuing Armchair Film Fest! Till then, have fun and stay cool and I’ll see you at the movies!-ML
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