{"id":787,"date":"2012-10-08T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/10\/08\/new-documentary-reveals-bergmans-love-for-ghostbusters\/"},"modified":"2012-10-08T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T18:47:00","slug":"new-documentary-reveals-bergmans-love-for-ghostbusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/10\/08\/new-documentary-reveals-bergmans-love-for-ghostbusters\/","title":{"rendered":"New documentary reveals Bergman&#8217;s love for Ghostbusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gul0XYySsPk\/UHMftWfQx5I\/AAAAAAAAAJY\/pDyIbQ6HJoo\/s1600\/ghostbergman.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"209\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-gul0XYySsPk\/UHMftWfQx5I\/AAAAAAAAAJY\/pDyIbQ6HJoo\/s320\/ghostbergman.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Before he died, legendary director Ingmar Bergman had acquired over 80,000 videocassettes, disposing ones he didn&#8217;t care for and keeping about 1,700 of them. That&#8217;s quite the collection, especially when you consider that the ones he kept are among the roughly 2% of films that Bergman decided were worth keeping.<\/p>\n<p>It might surprise you that those movies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/news\/ingmar-bergman-auteur-innovator-genius-and-a-big-fan-of-the-blues-brothers-8190487.html\">included <i>The Blues Brothers<\/i>, <i>Die Hard<\/i>, and <i>Ghostbusters<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two Swedish filmmakers are producing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svt.se\/bergmans-video\/\"><i>Bergman&#8217;s Video<\/i><\/a>, a documentary series that <a href=\"http:\/\/cineuropa.org\/nw.aspx?t=newsdetail&amp;l=en&amp;did=218321\">explores the themes in Bergman&#8217;s video collection<\/a>. You would expect that his collections would include French New Wave and other important pieces of film, but&#8230; maybe not <i>Romancing the Stone<\/i> and <i>Jurassic Park<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The point being: if Bergman, the director of <i>The Seventh Seal<\/i>, can enjoy <i>Ghostbusters<\/i>, then you have no reason to feel guilty about loving cheesy, crappy movies.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before he died, legendary director Ingmar Bergman had acquired over 80,000 videocassettes, disposing ones he didn&#8217;t care for and keeping about 1,700 of them. That&#8217;s quite the collection, especially when you consider that the ones he kept are among the roughly 2% of films that Bergman decided were worth keeping. It might surprise you that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-directors","tag-links-of-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}