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Ingmar Bergman is Woody Allen's favourite director, and when the latter speaks of the former, he interestingly combines the view of a filmmaker with that of a devotee; see, for example, his piece in The New York Times, as well as his interview with TIME, when Ingmar Bergman passed away in 2007. The Swedish director holds a prominent place in the history of cinema as an artist and an innovator, and at the same time his work escapes the stereotypes often associated with auteur cinema. This is how Woody Allen put it, when he was interviewed by Mark Kermode in the context of Film4's 2011 Ingmar Bergman season (1:53):
The fact that he's got a mind and an intellect, and the films are about something, and they're substantive, and they're philosophical, and they're profound on a human level, that's all great; but he's first and foremost an entertainer, so it's not like doing homework, it's not like going to see some film that you hear is great, and you watch it, and you figure "well, yes, it is great but I was bored stiff, and I'm sure it's great but it's all this talky, boring stuff;" not at all.
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