They are being denied entry into the film world by the money-obsessed hacks and agents who run Hollywood, and being kept out of print by the incestuous, and even more art-hateful MFA programs.

But, Bergman was no poet. What he was was likely the best published 20th C. writer….of prose. His screenplays are marvels, but ‘poetic’ only in the sense that the Gettysburg Address can be called poetic.

They drip with the best of prose rumination. Winter LIght is the most perfect Socratic dialogue in art. The Silence is one of the best films to show the superfluousness of most speech. Autumn Sonata is a perfect chamber drama.

Now, Antonioni’s dead, too….

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/movies/31cnd-antonio.html?_r=3&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin