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Postscript: Ingmar Bergman’s Top Rock & Roll Moments

7/31/07, 1:09 pm EST

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International cinema lost a giant this weekend: Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who directed the fun-loving, madcap cinematic thrill rides that put Stockholm on the party map. His films explored alienation and the emptiness of the universe, but let’s not forget the Ing’s wild side. Here are the scenes we’ll remember him by — the top rock & roll moments in Ingmar Bergman films!

The Seventh Seal
Medieval knight Max Von Sydow challenges Death to a game of chess, but it turns into one crazy dance-off, with Death doing the lawnmower with his scythe to INXS’ “What You Need.”

Winter Light
Ingrid Thulin, haunted by her repressed passion for suicidal Lutheran pastor Gunnar Bjornstrand, surprises him on the altar — with a steamy dance to En Vogue’s “Giving Him Something He Can Feel”! Then they kill themselves! Scanidav-ulous!

Scenes From a Marriage
It’s the end of the road for Liv Ullman and Erland Josephson — until a zany divorce hearing (watch for Charles Nelson Reilly in his cameo as the judge) ends up in a big courtroom karaoke rendition of ABBA’s “Waterloo.” Looks like love is Swede-r than ever!

The Silence
Aaaaw! The terrible silence of God has got a pair of sisters feeling mighty depressed! But turn that frown upside down, Miss Grumpy Pants! DJ Usher is here to rock the school gym with Fatboy Slim’s “The Rockafeller Skank.” (Or was this scene in She’s All That? I always get these confused.)

Persona
Liv Ullman, as the traumatized mute actress! Bibi Andersson, as the seaside nurse! Uh oh! Did somebody say, “sultry beach-volleyball scene set to The Cars’ ‘Moving In Stereo’?”

Through a Glass Darkly
Harriet Andersson is one wacky Swedish lady, what with all the hallucinations of spiders that symbolize the bleakness of human existence. Whew! But how about a little incest in a ruined windmill on the desolate, windswept, God-abandoned beach? While Whitney Houston sings “All The Man That I Need”? Hell to the yeah! R.I.P., Ingmar.

Photo: HYLEN/AFP/Getty


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cia-hackman | 8/3/2007, 4:08 am EST

R.I.P Rob Sheffield

G Monkey | 8/2/2007, 10:08 am EST

Yeah, it’s pretentious to like stuff that’s good. Idiot,

Billm | 8/1/2007, 2:24 pm EST

This is a great example of why the rest of the world hates Americans.

Ryne | 8/1/2007, 11:38 am EST

hahaha a big f u c k you to all of you pretentious film goers. i thought it was rather funny

Simon says | 8/1/2007, 10:34 am EST

This just shows tha RS is no longer for people over 20 or with an IQ score higher then Rob Sheffield.

Charles KY | 8/1/2007, 8:31 am EST

Bad taste Sheffield. This might be funny a few months from now. Too soon.

Taltos1667 | 8/1/2007, 7:51 am EST

Pure crap!

Pablo | 8/1/2007, 3:58 am EST

Yeah, this sucked.

Cravens | 8/1/2007, 3:50 am EST

Cheap, especially for a “cultural” magazine. It would be okay had Rolling Stones Magazine had an actual intelligent entry on Ingmar Bergman and his massive, massive influence on modern cinema and not just the European one.

Oh well, I guess Rolling Stones Magaine might be trying to recast it self as THE magazine for the American Idol crowd.

Cristhian | 8/1/2007, 3:06 am EST

I wish this would stop. It’s giving me a stomachache. Bad taste all over. This man’s bestowed upon us a piece of knowledge and understanding that nobody else has. He’s not the butt of your fucking joke!

proletariat | 8/1/2007, 2:10 am EST

RIP,one the greatest filmmaker ever lived and he deserves a better tribute absolutely.

FUCK SPIELBERG……….

Attacked By Wasps | 8/1/2007, 12:38 am EST

Who wrote this Jenny McCarthy? This thing reads like a description of Cancun on E!S Wild On! Bullet Points with NO BULLETS! You need to HIME ME and send this shlub to work in the mairoom. I KNOW how to WRITE, I do RESARCH abd as you well know, I’M CONTROVERSIAL…The Phantom

Sheffield's a Hack | 7/31/2007, 11:51 pm EST

Where’s the wacky Antonioni obit?

Multi-Untalented | 7/31/2007, 11:50 pm EST

For once I actually want to read something by Peter Travers!

Bernardi | 7/31/2007, 10:37 pm EST

BERGMAN
El director mas grande del cine moderno. The Queen is Dead.

Ezra Sherman | 7/31/2007, 10:34 pm EST

Wow, dead less than 24 hours and he gets this brilliant tribute. I can’t wait to see what you have to say the morning after Scorcese dies.

ThePlaylist | 7/31/2007, 9:58 pm EST

This is supposed to be funny? Christ.

Bigstarlet | 7/31/2007, 9:16 pm EST

Rob Sheffield, must you speak ill of the dead?

demiourgos | 7/31/2007, 6:23 pm EST

Fucking insipid, uninspired and awkardly flip.

Cristhian | 7/31/2007, 5:29 pm EST

This is completely unnecessary. Maybe you could have said something about Bergman’s influence in rock& Roll? It’s downright offensive.

Quiller | 7/31/2007, 4:19 pm EST

Wow, this was desperately unfunny in a tongue-through-cheek sort of way.

Matt Komar | 7/31/2007, 3:55 pm EST

Peter Travers please write something brilliant about Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni for this magazine’s next issue, and smack this twat Sheffield; it probably what any film fan who read this would want to see.

Matt Komar | 7/31/2007, 3:49 pm EST

What the hell is the matter with you, Sheffield? Ingmar Bergamn was probably one of the greatest directors of all time, and this is how you sum him up? Absolutley disgusting.

Jason S. | 7/31/2007, 3:28 pm EST

“This just falls flats. Bergman deserves a real tribute, not a sample of half-smart irony.”

Um, yeah…what he said. Really though, I think Ingmar and the readers of RS deserved a little more. We are not all Lohan worshipping, Ipod listening, pinkberry drinkin’ tweeners.

Hopefully Peter T. will write something remarkable and eloquent about Bergman and Antonioni as he did the late Bob Altman last year.

Willard | 7/31/2007, 2:59 pm EST

Goddammit Rob Sheffield! Show a little fucking respect.

Willem Wennekers | 7/31/2007, 2:37 pm EST

Bergman’s REAL rock and roll moment was the time he was directing a play and a critic who’d been unkind to him entered the theatre. Bergman stopped rehearsal, walked up the aisle, and CLOCKED the motherfucker. Then he went back to work. THAT’s rock and roll.

Willem Wennekers | 7/31/2007, 2:33 pm EST

This is completely idiotic. Nice going. When did RS start aiming for the lowest common denominator? This would have been alright if it was at least funny, but it barely rates as satire. Even Bergman himself would have gotten a kick out of a lighthearted look at his career, but this is just plain bad writing, which is the biggest insult.

BurtBacharach | 7/31/2007, 2:28 pm EST

scott walker actually sings a song called the seventh seal that summarizes the movie. download it you bastards

Willem Wennekers | 7/31/2007, 2:27 pm EST

This is completely idiotic. Nice going, you’ve cemented RS’s stature as being totally irrelevant to anything.

Marcellus Wallace | 7/31/2007, 2:26 pm EST

This just falls flats. Bergman deserves a real tribute, not a sample of half-smart irony.

DGG | 7/31/2007, 2:17 pm EST

Hmm, this one was a miss, in my opinion. Mr. Bergman deserved better than some sub-par, tired Sheffield shtick.

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