Bergman slams Antonioni shock

Two great film directors - Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni - have died in recent days. But how did they get on?

An article in the New York Sun suggests that, at any rate, Begrman was not overimpressed by his rival:

Ingmar Bergman, who died fewer than 24 hours before him, accused Antonioni in 2002 of being artistically "suffocated by his own tediousness." Bergman went on to admit that "Blow-Up" and "La Notte" were masterpieces, but complained about Antonioni's slow-moving style that bordered on inertia: "He concentrated on single images, never realizing that film is a rhythmic flow of images, a movement."

Next week: Stanley Kubrick "a bag of shite," claims Tarkovsky.