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  • Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
  • Mark reviews Ingmar Bergman’s best-known film, the brilliant allegorical drama The Seventh Seal starring Max von Sydow. Watch on BFI Player (UK only): player.bfi.org...
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  • @corbinmarkey466
    @corbinmarkey466 4 года назад +102

    *Of course* Kermode wasn't going to miss an opportunity to mention The Exorcist 😂

    • @استغفراللهوالحمدلله-د5ز
      @استغفراللهوالحمدلله-د5ز 3 года назад

      وت ذس خلق ربك الشياطين ما حسنت الك بل احسنت لنفسها خليك محسن النفسك بغيرها عندما تحسن للي حسنت انفسها حسنها لو تحبون تحسنكم 😂😂 هسه الله لعنهم انتم شبيكم تنعلون ها كفرت لمتناعك للعن انعلت ونعوعلت صدوق كذووب كانو البعض منهم من المؤمنين شوكت انبعضهم لنتظر ربهم الي خالقهم يرحمهم لعد وين خلق الانسان في احسن تقويم وين التقويم هنا يول ولو هذا الكلام للعرب اذا اندلو ههههه

    • @totallybored5526
      @totallybored5526 2 года назад +3

      At least there’s a direct connection

    • @trevorrapp7227
      @trevorrapp7227 2 года назад

      I laughed out loud

    • @horrorfanandy4647
      @horrorfanandy4647 Год назад

      Was there any doubt 🤣

    • @Elephantstonica
      @Elephantstonica 11 месяцев назад

      3 is better

  • @TNielebockC
    @TNielebockC 4 года назад +100

    RIP Max von Sydow

  • @sc0408
    @sc0408 4 года назад +33

    my favorite Bergman film is Persona,
    but it cant be denied that The Seventh Seal is an absolute masterpiece

  • @luckythree227
    @luckythree227 4 года назад +59

    RIP MAX
    this is the greatest film ever made

  • @glyph2011
    @glyph2011 6 лет назад +65

    I've never seen the seventh seal, but the amount of images and screenshots and homages I've seen is countless. It's about time I went to the origin.

    • @oliveriosteinn
      @oliveriosteinn 4 года назад +3

      I wonder if David Lynch saw this movie and got influenced because there's a similar scene in Lost Highway when (murderer) Robert Blake meets Bill Pullman.

    • @oliveriosteinn
      @oliveriosteinn 4 года назад +2

      @@uilulyili2026 ruclips.net/video/AdIlLn52Oak/видео.html .

    • @jmcusack
      @jmcusack 4 года назад +1

      @@oliveriosteinn fun fact: that movie was a retelling of the OJ Simpson story.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад +2

      @@oliveriosteinn i wonder if david lynch saw this movie??? ffs lol

  • @benjammin8184
    @benjammin8184 4 года назад +19

    I remember watching this at around age 13 late at night and being transfixed. I remember realising film could really be art. What a director, what a body of work and challenging subject matter. All his films have a universal language-like quality because they are just so wrought with emotion and the some of the most beautiful work in film. They delve into the human condition in such a way that every glimpse, every cut reveals an entire world. Love it, great recommendation.

  • @freddylubin
    @freddylubin 4 года назад +18

    Very few films affected me as strongly as this one, when I saw it, at 16 or so, at an "art-house cinema", in the late 60s. I never thought that the medium could deal with such deep issues as this, and it opened my mind to the possibilities of film.

  • @ThefightingCelt
    @ThefightingCelt 4 года назад +5

    Like Kermode , I first saw The Seventh Seal in the early 70s , and I was mesmirised . Brilliant film .

  • @suestewart4884
    @suestewart4884 5 лет назад +35

    Viewed The Seventh Seal for the first time last week. I was prepared to be bored out of my skull. In fact I have a rule now that if a film does not grab me within the first ten minutes I will switch it off. This film is definitely worth seeing. I found it full of love and very moving, in spite of the carnage. Strangely - it reminded me of An Officer and a Gentleman!

    • @mickirving6779
      @mickirving6779 3 года назад +3

      Ok

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад +1

      it is very much and actually while that is an off the wall comparison i can see it

    • @redi7398
      @redi7398 2 года назад

      This movie is actually just a Bill and Ted movie

  • @jaakkooksa5374
    @jaakkooksa5374 4 года назад +60

    0:32 I speak a little Swedish, and I think there is a mistranslation here. Death asks the knight "är du berädd" which means "are you ready [to die]" but it is translated as "are you afraid". The knight then replies "my body is, but I am not". Some native Swedish speaker might confirm this.

    • @perlundgren7797
      @perlundgren7797 4 года назад +10

      Confirmed - it is "beredd", as in "ready". Max von Sydow's answer actually does sound like "my body is afraid", though, but I'm guessing that's by mistake.

    • @BingoDavve
      @BingoDavve 4 года назад +18

      It´s in the script,
      The Swedish words for "ready" and "afraid" sounds somewhat similar, "Beredd" and "Rädd"
      It´s supposed to be that the knight is indeed afraid and with that misheard what death was asking him.
      Är du beredd?
      Är du rädd?

    • @inaam2009
      @inaam2009 4 года назад +3

      I am Swedish and I do not confirm this

    • @gmw3083
      @gmw3083 4 года назад

      Oh oh Mandela effect.... Life was/is like a box of chocolates.

    • @Lajosen
      @Lajosen 4 года назад +3

      @@inaam2009 You are not swedish hahahahha

  • @chrisjohnson8033
    @chrisjohnson8033 6 лет назад +35

    The Seventh Seal is wonderful. Though only my third favourite Bergman film after Fanny & Alexander & Persona.

    • @deckofcards87
      @deckofcards87 4 года назад

      The Virgin Spring is also also fantastic, imo.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад +2

      picking bergman movies is like sophie’s choice

  • @karlkarlos3545
    @karlkarlos3545 6 лет назад +104

    Wait a moment. Does Mark Kermode like the Exorcist? I've never heared about it.

    • @rippedtorn2310
      @rippedtorn2310 4 года назад +12

      Im not sure , no one is . He never mentions it you see . One day we might find out his thoughts on Exorcist ...one day .

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад +1

      wait are you trying to say this nigel has a name other than nigel???

    • @okyouknowwhatever
      @okyouknowwhatever 2 года назад

      He loves The Exorcist and Silent Running because he saw them for the first time as a kid, so there's a strong nostalgia factor going on there. Nothing wrong with that, just pointing it out. Most people have films they saw as kids close to their hearts.

  • @oliveriosteinn
    @oliveriosteinn 4 года назад +24

    David Lynch got influenced because there's a similar scene in Lost Highway when (murderer) Robert Blake meets Bill Pullman.

    • @8300dvo
      @8300dvo 4 года назад +8

      I can assure you, every director has seen this movie.

    • @rafopderand8524
      @rafopderand8524 4 года назад +5

      Persona, that other Bergman movie, definitely served as an inspiration to Lynch.

    • @mvjonsson
      @mvjonsson 4 года назад

      @@rafopderand8524 Lynch was also influenced by Bergman's The Hour of the Wolf.

    • @beezy5628
      @beezy5628 3 года назад +2

      Yeah David Lynch has said quite a good number of times that he loves Bergman. It’s cool that he likes these certain filmmakers and how much they influenced him while still being really original.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад

      no, there is no way david lynch saw this. he’s never even heard of bergman. ffs

  • @DCI-Frank-Burnside
    @DCI-Frank-Burnside 4 года назад +10

    It's a cliché but it does mature like a good wine, this film.

  • @mickirving6779
    @mickirving6779 3 года назад +2

    Love to see this

  • @jamesdyble7468
    @jamesdyble7468 6 лет назад +19

    Anyone would think you love The Exorcist, Mark.

  • @carls.2649
    @carls.2649 6 лет назад +36

    HA! Oh Mark, you just can't help yourself, can you? :)

    • @michaelotis223
      @michaelotis223 4 года назад +2

      Mark wouldn't be Mark if he couldn't help himself 🤪

  • @Notsram77
    @Notsram77 4 года назад +2

    I love this film.

  • @alanroberts4060
    @alanroberts4060 4 года назад +2

    Other great Films, The Maggie, (1954). The Thing (1982). Ace in the Hole (1951). Hell Drivers (1957) . The Wicker man (1973). JMOP

  • @danielcastillo4537
    @danielcastillo4537 4 года назад +4

    Only after Ebert do I trust a film critic. I saw "Sorcerer" on his recommendation and was not disappointed!

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад

      in that case you should watch wages of fear by clouset sorcerer is a remake of that and its just as good. actually its weird a remake is as good as the original but that is the case with sorcerer.

  • @johnquinn4151
    @johnquinn4151 2 года назад +1

    I agree with Mark about the Exorcist. It’s the best film ever made

  • @peterlandbo2726
    @peterlandbo2726 Год назад

    The dance of the dead in the final scene is legend!

  • @JustChadC
    @JustChadC 4 года назад +1

    Lol I loved watching this guy ten years when he was on Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments & Scenes. Sidebar: I bought Seventh Seal right after I saw it two years ago. What a film. Not many of those old ones hold up, but this one does.

  • @StefanTravis
    @StefanTravis 4 года назад +6

    "The Seventh Seal" ... "The Excorcist" ... "Flash Gordon". That's some career arc.

    • @davidweihe6052
      @davidweihe6052 4 года назад +1

      Don't forget "Judge Dredd" and "Three Days Of The Condor". Like Richard Burton, he had to eat between masterpieces.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад +1

      you have barely scratched the sydow surface

    • @chrisjohnston4445
      @chrisjohnston4445 Год назад

      Don't forget "Strange Brew".

  • @juleswinnfield4966
    @juleswinnfield4966 4 года назад +3

    he doesnt even review the movie. he just states some facts

  • @fossilmatic
    @fossilmatic 4 года назад +7

    Tell us why it is so great, not just that everyone agrees it is great. Mise en scene? Cinematography? Acting? Script and characterisations? Give us anything, man, even costume design and make up would give us something to hang the critique on.

    • @JohnJohnson-bs4cw
      @JohnJohnson-bs4cw 4 года назад

      That's exactly what I thought. I watched it myself recently. I enjoyed it but I can't quite articulate what liked about it. It would have been nice to hear what someone else liked about it rather than just rubber stamping its greatness.

    • @francogomez3666
      @francogomez3666 2 года назад

      @@JohnJohnson-bs4cw This movie fuck your soul. That is all.

    • @corruptangel6793
      @corruptangel6793 Год назад

      @John Johnson it was the dialogue for me. The main thing I liked that is. Very deep, well spoken, and meaningful. Especially for someone like me who struggles with nihilism. The confessional scene hit particularly hard.

  • @albinrudfell5356
    @albinrudfell5356 4 года назад +5

    Im swedish and I say that noone can direct movies like Ingmar Bergman did 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

  • @archive6094
    @archive6094 2 года назад

    I watched this movie for the first time today.

  • @33Donner77
    @33Donner77 4 года назад +3

    For some, the Seventh Seal is more appreciated the more they watch it.

    • @minionevil
      @minionevil 3 года назад

      I think that might be me. I just finished watching it for the first time, and, whilst I appreciate its thematic richness and cinematic elegance, I found myself not loving it. It was a little slow, a little boring: the characters were slightly two-dimensional and the story was a little too abstract.
      I think if I think more about it and then rewatch it I’ll like it a lot more. Because, as I say, there’s some brilliance in there. It just needs more unpacking on my end, I think.

  • @jgrab1
    @jgrab1 Год назад +1

    "Today there can hardly be a moviegoer who does not know what the Seventh Seal is about." Are you kidding me?! Do you think these Millennial Marvel Comics audience members have even heard of Ingmar Bergman, let alone seen a film that isn't wall-to-wall CGI?

  • @williamr3840
    @williamr3840 4 года назад +1

    Fabulous Max!
    :0)

  • @unknownorigin7433
    @unknownorigin7433 4 года назад +1

    I saw that film when was a kid, and if I recall the rules of chess, there is no limit to when opponent may make next move.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад +1

      lol tell that to the players or should i say playas in washington square park

  • @和男田村-z8q
    @和男田村-z8q Год назад +1

    大傑作❗😔死神と騎士のチェス、最後の死の舞踏のシーン等の美しさヨ❗😔

  • @robgoodsight6216
    @robgoodsight6216 4 года назад

    Somewhat very actual...excellent film!

  • @acrossbarrier
    @acrossbarrier 4 года назад +8

    Of course, the facade of reviewing and considering Seventh Seal as masterpiece just to do another hype of the Exorcist.
    You sly fox.

  • @johnforsyth7987
    @johnforsyth7987 Год назад +1

    Max Von Sydow also played Jesus Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told. As well as The Devil in Needful Things. How is that for range?

  • @Vesnicie
    @Vesnicie 2 года назад +1

    The Animaniacs did it too, but their game was checkers. Best line: "Are we dead or is this Ohio?".

  • @naturalmystic67
    @naturalmystic67 3 года назад

    Love Bergman...

  • @Tubeite
    @Tubeite 4 года назад +1

    Oh hi Mark!

  • @anydaynow
    @anydaynow 4 года назад +1

    I just watched this same chess clip before this. The translation was “slightly” different. I don’t know what to believe anymore.

    • @mar7268
      @mar7268 4 года назад +1

      Quick Dimwit me too!!

    • @mickirving6779
      @mickirving6779 3 года назад

      I love to watch classic foreign films in translation!! How could you really know or tell what they put up there

  • @geenadasilva9287
    @geenadasilva9287 4 года назад

    the seventh seal is stunning. my own favourite experience of bergman was Through a Glass Darkly. not sure if i could stand to watch it again though...

    • @mickirving6779
      @mickirving6779 3 года назад

      Loved through a glass darkly!! Love her performance in it

  • @KristerAndersson-nc8zo
    @KristerAndersson-nc8zo 4 года назад +1

    As a Swede living 70 year later the language are very stylish.

    • @davidweihe6052
      @davidweihe6052 4 года назад

      Clarify "stylish". Old fashioned, like you might expect from the Middle Ages? Or something else?

    • @KristerAndersson-nc8zo
      @KristerAndersson-nc8zo 4 года назад

      No more like correct in the pronounciation it is hard to explain.

  • @dornravlin
    @dornravlin 6 месяцев назад

    Great movie

  • @amasulem
    @amasulem 6 лет назад +6

    Exorcist....spat out my cup of tea...:-o

    • @amasulem
      @amasulem 6 лет назад +4

      On Seventh Seal did Mark Kermode,
      give due regard, his critique was often brill.
      He pimped The Exorcist a load,
      then BFI followers felt a gloomy chill.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад

      you would if you saw the exorcist too

  • @dylancarl1438
    @dylancarl1438 2 года назад

    a top 20 film for me

  • @MeMyselfAndRyan
    @MeMyselfAndRyan 4 года назад +7

    He didnt even review the film

  • @hey.hombre
    @hey.hombre 4 года назад

    There's a cartoon about the Grim Reaper losing a bet to a couple of kids. The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

  • @ep1phany62
    @ep1phany62 Год назад

    Sometimes I think Mark gets great films and great cinema mixed up.
    I feel like he doesn’t remember the cinema is for entertainment.
    You can just enjoy the experience without boiling everything down to the bones.
    A film doesn’t have to be great to be great cinema.
    And great films stand on their own, whether in the cinema, or at home.

  • @InfernalPasquale
    @InfernalPasquale 4 года назад +1

    Not a review, he just states trivia

  • @earhoney
    @earhoney 4 года назад

    Yes to the Exorcist!

  • @Rekaert
    @Rekaert 4 года назад +2

    "Max von Sydow went on the play the title role in what is actually the greatest film ever made ... the Exorcist."
    What a wasted opportunity! Gaahh! You could have said Flash Gordon and the internet would have gone nuts. You aren't satisfying the anarchist in me.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 3 года назад

      why? both are excellent

    • @Rekaert
      @Rekaert 3 года назад

      @@meesalikeu The twist in expectation. Whilst it's a personal favourite of mine, and almost the perfect example of a cult classic, I suspect not many people would have predicted it in the above sentence.

  • @albiehay5567
    @albiehay5567 6 лет назад

    So NOW you add it??

  • @juankingsly5764
    @juankingsly5764 4 года назад +1

    Max von Sydow also plaid Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told

    • @Merlinthehappypig
      @Merlinthehappypig 4 года назад

      what an adorable way to spell played. I adore you

  • @penhdog2207
    @penhdog2207 3 года назад

    I was so bored I had to turn it off with 37 minutes to go. Can someone help me with what I'm missing? (Honest question)

  • @AnkitSharma-qm7sg
    @AnkitSharma-qm7sg 4 года назад

    The exorcist for me is PACIFIC RIM.

  • @andytyrrell5153
    @andytyrrell5153 Год назад

    Did he win at Chess?

  • @lokmanmerican6889
    @lokmanmerican6889 4 года назад +1

    Sounds like your review ended just as it got interesting.

  • @alecmisra4964
    @alecmisra4964 4 года назад +2

    He should ask him what his ELO rating is and then we wouldnt have to watch the film.

  • @SouthdownsJohn
    @SouthdownsJohn Год назад

    Frightening us into believing there is an afterlife is not my thing. There are two Bergman's; one the terrified man who tries to bully God into being, and the man who made ' Summer With Monika ' and ' Journey into Autumn ( Dreams. ) I choose the human Bergman.

  • @robertsmith2221
    @robertsmith2221 4 года назад

    Come on dr kermode a tribute from you please

  • @binghamguevara6814
    @binghamguevara6814 5 лет назад +1

    Don Quixote & Sancho's Bogus Journey

  • @stevepayne5965
    @stevepayne5965 4 месяца назад

    Stand back and brace yourselves, because this will be heresy to many: I think TSS is Bergman's second greatest masterpiece but for me personally 'Winter Light' just beats it by a whisker.

  • @toffthe
    @toffthe 4 года назад +1

    Am I the only one who thinks it's very funny, in places..?

    • @cha5
      @cha5 4 года назад

      Laurence von Winkenburger Not at all, there’s quite a bit of humor in The Seventh Seal even with its somber themes.
      I mean Death sawing down a tree with a man on it protesting all the way down, and the two main stage performers completely steal the show and are funny and endearing characters.

  • @GRTakerTh
    @GRTakerTh 4 года назад +2

    The exorcist?? 😂

  • @babybruce8256
    @babybruce8256 3 года назад

    How can I steam this anyone know?

  • @Psalm1101
    @Psalm1101 Год назад

    He played a lot of Christian films you name it played it. I reckon he's in paradise know

  • @lucisoburns1965
    @lucisoburns1965 4 года назад +2

    His mistake was choosing white (Peace), when I play chess, a game only royalty truly know, I always play black (War). Another mistake as with all Nights (Masons) is they put X (Death) on their left and O on their right. A true "Day" would never place death on his left. A night must master checkers first, Satan's game (Black and Red), that is how you get a crown, that is how you are King'd. Always remember, when you put that deaths head pin on your hat, death sits on your right. I will go for now and let you sleep, you keep dreaming of the fire when death clearly stands at the waters.

  • @meesalikeu
    @meesalikeu 3 года назад

    the exorcist is very great tho truth

  • @vervor
    @vervor 6 лет назад +1

    Not even one detail about WHY it is on your list??

  • @meesalikeu
    @meesalikeu 3 года назад

    its sigh dow nigel not sid dow alrighty then pip

  • @hpoonis2010
    @hpoonis2010 Год назад

    Oh dear...twice-used "iconic" forces me to vote this down. THERE ARE MANY MORE ADJECTIVES AVAILABLE THAN JUST I-frikkin-CONIC!

  • @firekind1980
    @firekind1980 4 года назад

    The Exorcist 2 wasn't that good. Someday I'll maybe give the first a go.

  • @harmoniabalanza
    @harmoniabalanza 3 года назад

    Intelligent.

  • @Tsun_Wu_Kong-Hanuman
    @Tsun_Wu_Kong-Hanuman 4 года назад

    Okay in the nut it is. ROFLMAO
    Oh now you are legion. Anaymous. ROFLMAO
    You need to learn to kiss my you know what. ROFLMAO

  • @elis4237
    @elis4237 4 года назад

    I think the movie might be more interesting if the viewer does not speak swedish.

  • @Kwodlibet
    @Kwodlibet 4 года назад

    I cannot help but remember Mark Kermode praising and recommending the Disney's Star Wars abominations from the screen of BBC1. It was one of those moments when one realizes the the king is naked, flawed and just as mortal like everyone else. You wanna watch any movie - do it, but not because a shill told you to.

  • @dollarcostbackpacker1226
    @dollarcostbackpacker1226 4 года назад +1

    ... Bill and ted's bogus adventure did it better!

  • @yinghanfu9047
    @yinghanfu9047 Год назад

    exorcist is up there.

  • @scania1982
    @scania1982 4 года назад

    En kämpe god, Carl Adolf, har lämnat jordelivet.

  • @willthorson4543
    @willthorson4543 4 года назад

    I think it's a great movie...but top 10? Not sure about that.

  • @CheersDits2979
    @CheersDits2979 4 года назад

    I can never enjoy a film where I am spending the whole film looking up and down while missing some of the sub titles.

  • @illwobble
    @illwobble 6 лет назад +2

    Mark, it's the Book of Revelation, NOT "Revelations".

  • @danielmoran9902
    @danielmoran9902 2 года назад

    I've watched The Excorsist many times, and I still say the same thing. Utter rubbish.

  • @gavasiarobinssson5108
    @gavasiarobinssson5108 4 года назад

    What a bore. In no way is this a masterpiece. Ingmar Bergman the most overrated director ever.

  • @Gene601
    @Gene601 4 года назад +4

    RIP Max von Sydow