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FilmNR1957
The Seventh Seal
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives. From TMDB
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The Seventh Seal is a 1957 fantasy drama film, directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot and Nils Poppe.
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60 of 223 · most liked firstI used to watch Monty Python after school on TV. One day the channel showed the Ingmar Bergman film 'The Seventh Seal' at that time. I took the opening scene with Death and the beach to be a typical Python opening. It took me 15 minutes to realise it wasn't Python.
neutral · AI labelView post →shame The Seventh Seal became shorthand for selfserious europeans & their dour pretentious art films. cause it's actually such a funny little movie. perfect entry point into european art films. you go, Ooh so they're in on the bit. it's demystifying. hey these guys DO know about fun and they LIKE it
positive · AI labelView post →Wake Up Little Susie was written in 1957, which means there’s a good chance the movie they fell asleep at because it didn’t have much of a plot was The Seventh Seal
neutral · AI labelView post →If people talked about sound films the way they talk about silents… “I’ve seen every Adam Sandler movie, The Babadook and The Seventh Seal, so my greatest sound films of all time are those, basically. Did you know all sound films have chess scenes? Random but they do.”
neutral · AI labelView post →For my Film History II class tonight? THE PARALLAX VIEW and THE CONVERSATION. Saturday for small class seminar? THE SEVENTH SEAL.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’d make Heat: The Musical Se7en on ice Assault on Precinct 13 with toddlers Muppet Blood Meridian Seven Squirrels (Seven Samurai but squirrels) Get Ken Loach to remake every Marvel movie with a cast of non-actors from Newcastle The Seventh Seal video game I’d be back to being poor by 2029
neutral · AI labelView post →[loudly, for folks in the back]: The Seventh Seal is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Seventh Seal is an underrated Weird Little Guy(s) Movie
positive · AI labelView post →Just rewatched The Seventh Seal for the bajillionth time and I'm pretty sure you couldn't make a movie about a blonde medieval crusader being crushed by the meaningless of imperialism, his crisis of faith and deep need for community and humanity without people bitching about history "gone woke".
positive · AI labelView post →This Day in #History 1957 Swedish film classic "The Seventh Seal" directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max von Sydow and Bengt Ekerot is released.
neutral · AI labelView post →A quiet morning with one of the holy texts of film. #NowWatching The Seventh Seal (1957) #filmsky #HolyHorror
positive · AI labelView post →Remembering the great Max von Sydow, born on this day in 1929. The Seventh Seal, Hannah and Her Sisters, Dune, so many magical performances. Here's a little painting I did of him in another cherished film, Flash Gordon. (Available to buy - follow the link.) barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
neutral · AI labelView post →Released on this date, Feb 16th in 1957: Ingmar Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL. The film that cemented Bergman's status as one of the preeminent directors of his time. Much referenced, parodied and revered since its premiere. But if you have never seen it? Do it today. #filmsky #movies #moviesky #otd
neutral · AI labelView post →I had the wonderful privilege of commissioning an art piece from @bakedmochi.com inspired by the Swedish film The Seventh Seal. Please consider giving them a follow and commissioning something yourself. #SabrielSketch
neutral · AI labelView post →20 movies Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just an image. #FilmSky #Movies 1. The Seventh Seal
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film The Seventh Seal (1957)
neutral · AI labelView post →What an interesting and unique movie. Impressively and beautifully shot. The personification of death is always fascinating because mortality its something every human has in common. A must-see. #filmsky My ★★★★★ review of The Seventh Seal on @letterboxd: boxd.it/alTsgP
positive · AI labelView post →Movie still from 'The Seventh Seal' by Ingmar Bergman. 1957 #bw #BlackAndWhite #movies #cinema #IngmarBergman
neutral · AI labelView post →The Seventh Seal is a Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →"...The only modern film image of death that, visually and psychologically, stands comparison with María Casares is in Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal." (Film critic Pauline Kael on Cocteau's "Orpheus".)
neutral · AI labelView post →Raising a glass to one of cinema's greatest actors, Max von Sydow, who died on this day in 2020. So many legendary film performances: The Seventh Seal, The Exorcist, Dune, Hannah and Her Sisters, and (as painted by me here) Flash Gordon. barnabyedwards.co.uk/shop/art-cul...
neutral · AI labelView post →2/16/57: Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, w/Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson So iconic easy to forget how great it is. More: Von Trotta: www.criterion.com/current/post... Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea... Alex Barrett: www.bfi.org.uk/features/7-r...
neutral · AI labelView post →2/16/57: Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal w/Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson So iconic easy to forget how great it is More Ebert: www.rogerebert.com/reviews/grea... @zhandlen.bsky.social: www.avclub.com/the-seventh-... @alexbarrettjnr.bsky.social: www.bfi.org.uk/features/7-r...
neutral · AI labelView post →A look at Jason's ***Upside Dawn*** (2022) (includes the ***Seal VII*** story). Oof, somehow I don't believe I've posted any of **Jason**'s work here before, who is in fact 59yo John Arne Sæterøy from Norway, who now lives in France. So what can I say about "Jason?" Well... I find him a fascinating BD+ creator, one who started as a fairly traditional comics artist, but quickly developed a unique visual style featuring lean, upright pseudo-animal figures, universally drawn with rather hauntingly…
neutral · AI labelView post →📽️There are films I enjoy but not enough to see again. Here are some I've seen more than once and will likely see again: 2001: A Space Odyssey; Goodfellas; Tombstone; Harvey (old movie, based on a Pulitzer prize winning play); Marty (1955 Oscar winning film); Unforgiven (Eastwood); The Seventh Seal
positive · AI labelView post →Now rewatching The Seventh Seal, a perfect movie for the holiday season.
positive · AI labelView post →#otd in 1720 Sweden and Denmark sign the 3rd Treaty of Stockholm What’s your favorite Scandinavian film? Mine is The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries
positive · AI labelView post →this weekend’s film obsession is tracking down rare english movie dubs so far this morning i’ve located Le Samourai, The Seventh Seal, and Purple Noon I need a nap
neutral · AI labelView post →Pass it along! Let's see your pfp in its full sized glory. Death from The Seventh Seal, a film that's one of my all-time favorites and pretty foundational to who I am as a person. If you haven't seen it, this is a huge rec.
positive · AI labelView post →Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) followed closely by The Seventh Seal (1957). Both of them affected me deeply in different ways. I love a film that leaves me wanting to read 400 pages of scholarship about them once they're over.
positive · AI labelView post →February 16, 1957: Swedish film classic "The Seventh Seal" directed by Ingmar Bergman, starring Max Von Sydow and Bengt Ekerot is released.
neutral · AI labelView post →OTD: 2/16/1957 Ingmar Bergman's immortal classic THE SEVENTH SEAL premieres in Sweden. Brilliant allegory of faith, life & death. Most iconic scene: chess match with Death. Who are you? I am Death. Have you come for me? I have long walked by your side. So I have noticed. #filmsky 📽🎥🎞🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →#MovieMadness #MovieChallenge Day 14 - Your Favourite Foreign Language Movies The Seventh Seal (1957) A classic of film making, little more need be said.
positive · AI labelView post →It’s one reason I loved Ebert as a critic because even if he could be a hater’s hater, his metric more often than not was “did this film succeed in what it was trying to do,” not “was it The Seventh Seal?”
neutral · AI labelView post →This #vss365 was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's great film The Seventh Seal and its iconic chess game with Death
neutral · AI labelView post →easiest job on this movie: location scout #HorrorWatch (it’s a great location, very The Seventh Seal)
neutral · AI labelView post →Favourite film from every decade: 20s Nosferatu 30s Modern Times 40s Bicycle Thieves 50s The Seventh Seal 60s L'avventura 70s Mirror 80s In The White City 90s Satantango 00s Hidden 10s Post Tenebras Lux 20s Small Body
neutral · AI labelView post →You know a film I rarely hear anyone yapping about: The Seventh Seal. I remember when it was a shorthand for cinephile seriousness.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now Watching The Seventh Seal (1957) #filmsky 🎬📽️🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →this is such a beautiful, moving essay, and also I’m thrilled to know I’m not the only one who thinks It’s a Wonderful Life and The Seventh Seal are kind of the same movie
neutral · AI labelView post →It's funny how The Seventh Seal is synonymous in popular culture with "inscrutable art film" when it actually has an entirely straightforward plotline and is EASILY the most accessible of Bergman's major works by absolute light years.
positive · AI labelView post →Watched THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957) yesterday. Kept thinking of William Sadler whenever Death was on screen 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →Top 16: 1950's, 1 film per director Tokyo Story Seven Samurai Vertigo Sansho Dayu The Seventh Seal Pather Panchali The Human Condition Ordet Limelight Hiroshima mon Amour A Man Escaped Les Vacances des M. Hulot The Cranes are Flying The 400 Blows Nights of Cabiria 12 Angry Men #filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →#BrownAlbums #MusicChallenge Day 10 Scott Walker - The Seventh Seal (Scott 4, 1969) The re-telling of the film, in handy song format. Thanks to @diegoalonso.bsky.social for the fun and very brown challenge!
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, so I watched the “Seal Team Six” movie, and then I watched the sequel “The Seventh Seal,” and I’m so confused.
neutral · AI labelView post →As a deeply pretentious 20-something I went to see Bergman's The Seventh Seal at my local art house and spent half the film in fits of laughter when I suddenly understood loads of jokes from Monty Python and Bill & Ted.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not to brag but this morning I saw the medieval fresco of death playing chess that inspired the movie The Seventh Seal
neutral · AI labelView post →Dark, eccentric, pessimistic. I’m looking for movies along the vibes of *The Seventh Seal*, *Stalker*, *Raise the Red Lantern*, *The Passion of Joan of Arc*. Movies where the camera is a drill into the human soul somehow. Painful to watch, but enlightening.
neutral · AI labelView post →Most modern plague media can be traced to two remarkable works of the mid-20th century: Albert Camus's novel The Plague and Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal. Even through the novel is set in modern Algeria, its presentation of rat hordes still influences plague media.
neutral · AI labelView post →36. The Seventh Seal (dir. Bergman, 1957). Speaking of films no one credits for being as funny as they were? Everyone parodies the chess scene, everyone cites it as the stereotypical old foreign art film, etc. But, again, few ever highlight its sense of humour!
positive · AI labelView post →HOUR OF THE WOLF was released 56 years ago today in Sweden. It was shot partly on location at Hovs Hallar where Ingmar Bergman filmed the opening scene of THE SEVENTH SEAL. Bergman was terrified of birds and there are multiple bird references throughout the film to elicit terror.
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, soften up a horror film: The Seventh Seal (Yes I know it's not really a "horror" film but c'mon, existential horror is still horror)
neutral · AI labelView post →Showing a friend The Seventh Seal again. I love this movie so much.
positive · AI labelView post →Working on my pitch for the “Nordic Film Universe Fighting Game” so if I can commission someone to make an animated mockup of Death from The Seventh Seal versus The Match Factory Girl let me know
neutral · AI labelView post →You guys know THE SEVENTH SEAL is funny, right?? Patton Oswalt reminds us that you shouldn’t always judge a film by it’s film stills! 🥸 Find out which movies the actor & comedian program for ‘The Patton Oswalt Film Festival’ on today’s episode of the AC Podcast – out now wherever you watch/listen!
neutral · AI labelView post →Born on this day in 1929 was Carl Adolf von Sydow, better known as the Swedish-French actor, Max von Sydow! Max had a career that spanned 70 years! She was in such film as The Seventh Seal (1957), The Virgin Spring (1960), The Exorcist (1973), and Three Days of the Condor (1975. #OnThisDay #botd
neutral · AI labelView post →Akira Kurosawa is going to dominate this list. Ikiru, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, There's just no arguing that those are some of the best films of the 50s. But there's also Ben Hur, Vertigo, 12 Angry Men, The 400 Blows, The Seventh Seal, North by Northwest, Strangers on a Train... How do you choose?
neutral · AI labelView post →As a kid I got to see Jack Slater IV because I was friends with a projectionist. Unfortunately I got sucked into the movie and ended up releasing the personification of Death from The Seventh Seal into our reality, irreparably misaligning the natural forces of the universe, but the movie was cool.
neutral · AI labelView post →If you've never seen "The Seventh Seal," you really should. It's way better and more entertaining than you think it's going to be, for a film with the reputation of the ur-po-faced Swedish art house film.
positive · AI labelView post →Alternatively... Soften up a horror film: The Seventh Seal
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