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...blossoming of a new European cinema in the decades following the Second World War marked the beginning of a distinct cultural epoch on the continent. The 50s and 60s brought a generation of cinematic geniuses like Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Federico Fellini to light, along with a diverse set of styles whose ambition and vision are still tremendously influential. But the future of filmmaking in Europe was not so bright, nor its future so clear, in the last days of the war. By 1945, the national film industries that hadn’t been hijacked for propaganda purposes...
...Using a robotic camera mount and special software, photographer David Bergman stitched together 220 separate images of the Inauguration to create a large-scale photo so zoomable that you can see details down to the notes on the pages of the band's sheet music. Look, the Bush daughters had blankets! Look, Yo-Yo Ma is taking a picture with his iPhone! Look, Newt Gingrich isn't even watching Obama give his speech! On his website, Bergman says his panorama, a virtual Where's Waldo of Inauguration Day, is 59,783 pixels wide by 24,658 pixels tall; the photo...
Sending your partner on a solo trip works out especially well, if the two of you have opposing ideas of fun. For Chanukah this year, Bear Bergman sent her fiancé - a super-outdoorsman - on a five-day, backcountry ski trip in Québec with his buddies. She says she knew "less than nothing about backcountry skiing," but pulled the trip together with help from friends, research online and some professional advice. While her fiancé was off skiing the Canadian wilderness, from hut to unheated hut, Bergman was at home, "enjoying a visit from an out-of-town...
...Joan of Arc, Fleming's final film and the project that led him to begin an affair with star Ingrid Bergman: "The making of Fleming's last picture, Joan of Arc, becomes one of those behind-the-scenes sagas far more fascinating than the finished film, like the productions of Cleopatra, Apocalypse Now or Heaven's Gate. It would span a decade and a half of creative flirtations, turbulent love affairs, and discordant ambitions ... Even its presentation of Ingrid Bergman as an apple-cheeked warrior-saint - the ultimate tomboy heroine - backfired shortly after the film's release, when the American...
...Deep Throat, "If people wanted to interview me because I was a porno filmmaker, I just was not interested in talking to them." There had been gifted directors - Radley Metzger, Russ Meyer - making softcore in the '60s, but Damiano had higher ambitions. He wanted to be Ingmar F---in' Bergman...