Swedish Meatballs

I've been watching movies all day. I watched Winter's Light, The Merchant of Four Seasons, and "My Fair Lady" tonight. Sort of an odd triple feature, but I've been on a Bergman and Fassbinder kick lately (usually not at the same time), and my people are historically drawn to musicals. I'd seen "Merchant..." before, and it wasn't as good as I remembered, although at the point I saw it, the only other Fassbinder film I had seen was Querelle, a film that desperately made me want to shower. And I've come to the conclusion that, rather than the pretentious hack I thought he was, Ingmar Bergman really is a great film-maker, and a lot of his films (especially the ones that feature Gunnar Björnstrand prominently, an actor whom I have enormous respect for: he's sort of like Bergman's Toshiro Mifune) are actually quite entertaining. I dare you to watch "Smiles of a Summer Night" and make jokes about Swedish cinema being depressing and boring. "Wild Strawberries" is highly recommended, too, and I presume that many people reading this will have watched "The Seventh Seal", if only by accident.

Now I'm going to go work out while watching Buffy season 5.