MOVIE DIRECTOR INGMAR BERGMAN DIES
Famed movie director Ingmar Bergman Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential film makers of the 20th Century, has died aged 89.Woody Allen once described the Swedish director as "probably the greatest film artist".Bergman was widely acclaimed for films such as The Seventh Seal in 1957 and Fanny And Alexander (1982), which won four Oscars, including Best Foreign Language Film.He made more than 50 films, encompassing all the extremes of his native Sweden.They featured the claustrophobic gloom of unending winter nights, glowing summer evenings and the bleak magnificence of the island where he spent his last years.Bergman first gained international attention with 1955's Smiles Of A Summer Night, a romantic comedy that inspired the Stephen Sondheim musical A Little Night Music. But it was The Seventh Seal, released two years later, that riveted critics and audiences.An allegorical tale of the medieval Black Plague years, it contains one of cinema's most famous scenes -...