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30 July 2009 11:31 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Two years ago today death came for Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. Robert here, thinking back on the day when my two favorite living directors both died. Two men who had a huge impression on me. It was as a young budding movie lover that Bergman and Antonioni taught me how film could be more than popcorn entertainment... it could be art.

Of course one has to admit that Bergman and Antonioni are eternally entwined with the bad name that "art film" sometimes has... and for pretty good reason. After all, Ingmar Bergman directed an entire trilogy on God's silence. Antonioni directed an entire trilogy about the impossibility of love. What do you mean people think art films are needlessly depressing?

And so the reputation of the art film goes: If you want a good time... watch something else.

Still Bergman and Antonioni never really deserved that reputation. The Seventh Seal »

- Robert

15 June 2009 7:38 AM, PDT | HollywoodNorthReport.com | See recent HollywoodNorthReport.com news »

Magnolia Pictures' The Girlfriend Experience is an 'experimental drama', lensed in New York City, directed by Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh, starring actress Sasha Grey. A rough cut was screened at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009 and is currently available on Amazon Video on Demand as a pre-theatrical rental. Soderbergh said that director Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert and Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers were his inspiration for the film, budgeted at $1.3 million and shot with a RedOne digital camera. "...Chelsea (Sasha Grey) is an upscale Manhattan call girl who provides more than just a sexual encounter; for a price, she.ll simulate a complete romantic relationshipÂ.a girlfriend 'experience'. Despite a wide variety of happy customers, Chelsea wants to expand her business..." »

2 articles from 2009