{"id":311,"date":"2006-09-20T23:08:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T06:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/09\/20\/rip-sven-nykvist\/"},"modified":"2017-09-19T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:13:21","slug":"rip-sven-nykvist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/09\/20\/rip-sven-nykvist\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Sven Nykvist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/1aaCinemaSven-e1505877186195.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/1aaCinemaSven-e1505877186195.png\" alt=\"1aaCinemaSven\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30761\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From greencinedaily came this <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.greencine.com\/archives\/002485.html\">sad news<\/a>, Sven Nykvist (1922 &#8211; 2006) passed away.<br \/>\nObituary from guardian <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/obituaries\/0,,1877789,00.html\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ingmarbergman.se\/universe.asp?guid=C67561F2-3BC9-46CA-B7C3-CB5C8592ED03\">Face to face <\/a>(from Ingmar Bergman site)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A genius of cinematography with an outstanding feeling for light.<br \/>\nBorn Sven Vilhem Nykvist on 3 December 1922 in Moheda, Kronobergs l\u00e4n, the son of non-conformist missionaries to Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SfsOoBlULZc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"520\" height=\"400\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XZsU_ACYSAA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XZsU_ACYSAA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Persona <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/im2\/persona2.jpg\" alt=\"Persona Ingmar Bergman and Sven Nykvist\" \/> <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/flash\/page\/0,,1877855,00.html\">Slide show &#8211; Sven Nykvist was the medium&#8217;s Rembrandt<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Ingmar and I made Winter Light (1963), which takes place in a church on a winter day in Sweden, we decided we should not see any shadow in it at all because there would be no logical shadow in that setting. Read more here (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fathom.com\/feature\/122159\/index.html\">Shooting With Ingmar Bergman: A Conversation with Sven Nykvist) <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cn5EIGlzbqY\">The trailer for &#8220;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221;<\/a> (Sven did that one as well!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acs.ucalgary.ca\/~tstronds\/nostalghia.com\/TheTopics\/Nykvist-Memoir.html\">From On the shooting of the Sacrifice.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a rule, however, it was Tarkovskij&#8217;s own visions that counted even if he at times had a hard time communicating them, partly due to the language barrier &#8211; he had to constantly work through an interpreter &#8211; but primarily due to the fact that he first and foremost wanted to communicate emotions, moods, atmosphere. By images, not by words. He wanted to impart a soul to objects and nature. Here he actually went further than Bergman ever did. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cries and Whispers <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/images\/cries.jpg\" alt=\"Cries and Whispers\" \/><br \/>\nList of films he worked on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005815\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n(Don&#8217;t forget <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchfilms.topcities.com\/1978_Pretty_Baby.jpg\">Pretty Baby<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fanny_and_Alexander\">Fanny and Alexander<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Sven directed &#8220;Oxen&#8221; (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvardfilmarchive.org\/calendars\/00mayjun\/sven.htm\">In the Company of light<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>Sven was a father figure to Lasse Hallstrom with whom he made several films most famously What&#8217;s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From greencinedaily came this sad news, Sven Nykvist (1922 &#8211; 2006) passed away. Obituary from guardian here. Face to face (from Ingmar Bergman site) A genius of cinematography with an outstanding feeling for light. Born Sven Vilhem Nykvist on 3 December 1922 in Moheda, Kronobergs l\u00e4n, the son of non-conformist missionaries to Africa. Persona Slide &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2006\/09\/20\/rip-sven-nykvist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Sven Nykvist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-ingmar-bergman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}