Cinema Gadfly – Episode 17 – Wild Strawberries

My guest for this month is Patrick Gibson, and he’s joined me to discuss the film I chose for him, the 1957 drama film Wild Strawberries. You can follow the show on Twitter @cinemagadfly.

Show notes:

• My original review of Wild Strawberries
• This film was the last role by legendary Swedish actor Victor Sjöström, who directed The Phantom Carriage
• You can’t fly directly from Stockholm to Lund these days, you have to go to Malmö and drive. It takes about two hours total
• A flight from Stockholm to Sydney, Australia takes almost 24 hours, so a bit longer
• Ingmar Bergman was having an affair with his leading lady Bibi Andersson during the making of this film
• Norwegian Black Metal and Swedish Death Metal are two things that I associate with Scandinavia
• A Mitzvah is a good dead, and a Mensch is someone who does them
• Virtually every Bergman film was produced by Svensk Filmindustri
• Akira Kurosawa made loooong films. Seven Samurai is 207 minutes for instance
• Bergman getting to work with both Gunnar Fischer and Sven Nykvist is almost unfair to other filmmakers
• The Seventh Seal’s portrayal of death is famously parodied in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
• I loved the brilliance of Persona, and highly recommend it to anyone who liked this film
• Patrick’s wife Maja appeared in two great episodes of this very show
• If you haven’t checked out Firewatch yet, what are you waiting for? The tone feels similar to this film
• Patrick works for one of my all time favorite companies, Portland’s Panic, which also employees our last guest Neven Mrgan
• I highly recommend anyone technical out there to read Patrick’s website, it’s really good stuff
• Patrick and Maja are currently traveling around the world, while writing about it. It’s an awesome way to learn about a bunch of interesting places, and see a bunch of cool photos

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