DIRECTORS ON DIRECTORS
Monday, August 13 2007
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The New York Times on Sunday published lengthy tributes to two legendary directors by two legendary directors in their own right. In his article about Ingmar Bergman, who died last month at age 89, Woody Allen recalled Bergman as "a warm, amusing, joking character, insecure about his immense gifts, beguiled by the ladies." He wrote that he often talked to him by telephone, refusing invitations to visit because "I didn't relish flying on a small aircraft to some speck near Russia for what I envisioned as a lunch of yogurt." Allen wrote that on the day Bergman died, reporters who knew of his admiration for Bergman phoned, many of them asking how Bergman had influenced him. "He couldn't have influenced me, I said, he was a genius and I am not a genius and genius cannot be learned or its magic passed on." In a separate article, Martin Scorsese wrote about the death of Michelangelo Antonioni, at age 94. He said that Antonioni's L'Avventura "gave me one of the most profound shocks I've ever had at the movies. ... [It] changed my perception of cinema and the world around me and made both seem limitless." Scorsese said that he had "crossed paths" with Antonioni a number of times over the years, "but it was his images that I knew, much better than the man himself. Images that continue to haunt me, inspire me. To expand my sense of what it is to be alive in the world."
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