Author name: Nate Crocker

On Friday, November 2, TIFF had its first screening of The Seventh Seal in its two-month-long centennial celebration of Ingmar Bergman, which runs from October 24 to December 23. I went into the screening just after reading Liam Lacey’s piece on the TIFF retrospective for Original Cin. To make Bergman “relevant to our own times,” Lacey suggests a reimagining of Bergman as a superhero—a reconceptualization so Bergman might fit in with what David Cronenberg deems