Ingmar Bergman Dead

The BBC reports that Swedish filmmaker and theatrical director, Ingmar Bergman, died today at the age of 89.

His famous 1957 film, The Seventh Seal is on release currently in art-houses around the world in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

Bergman once said in a New York Times interview in 1976:

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.