"Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death—this infantile fixation of mine—was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry—with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.'"
— Ingmar Bergman, (1971) Source
Thinking about The Seventh Seal:
Peter Cowie: The Seventh Seal (Criterion)
Soren Kierkegaard's "Knight of Faith" (Wikipedia)
Existentialism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Jean-Paul Sartre: Authenticity (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Michael Benton on Existentialism: Five Propositions (Dialogic)
Ingmar Bergman: A Program Note to The Seventh Seal (Bergmanorama)
Tom Charity: Guilty Omissions (Cinema Scope)
Norman N. Holland: Meeting a Movie
Gerardo Martinez: Death Plays Chess
The Seventh Seal: Clips (Google Video)
Peter M. Plamer: The Seventh Seal (The English Exchange: PDF file)
Culture Cartel: The Seventh Seal
Background on The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman: Face to Face)
Death and Its Discontents (Ingmar Bergman: Face to Face)
Art and Artists (Ingmar Bergman: Face to Face)
On the director Ingmar Bergman (and his other films):
Senses of Cinema: Great Directors (Essential Reading!!!)
The Son of a Preacher Man (Ingmar Bergman: Face to Face)
Bergman's Beginnings (Importance of the Opening Shots in his Films) (Ingmar Bergman Face to Face)
Ingmar Bergman Face to Face
Marco Lanzagorta: Cries and Whispers (Senses of Cinema)
Dan Harper: Winter Light (Senses of Cinema)
Kristi McKim: Marriage as Cinematic Movement, or Loving the Face in Close-Up (Sense of Cinema)
Martyn Bamber: The Virgin Spring (Senses of Cinema)
Ingmar Bergman Foundation
Film Posters
Trailers/Clips/Interviews/Documentaries/Parodies (Bergmanorama)
Xan Brooks: Bergman talks of his dreams and demons in rare interview (UK Guardian)
Strictly Film School
Swedish film:
Cinema of Sweden (Wikipedia)
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