sven nykvist has passed

Post by **mattias** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:58 pm

if you read swedish:

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/s ... 02,00.html

/matt

Post by **David M. Leugers** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:03 pm

I don't read Swedish, but Sven Nykvist was a great cinematographer whose development and promotion of S-16mm will be a great legacy he left to the world.

David M. Leugers

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:16 pm

Rune Ericson came up with S16...

This is pretty sad. I just saw "Wild Strawberries" and his work was beautiful and spare. I thought he was around the same age as Bergman... I guess not.

Post by **ccortez** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:35 pm

There's a really nice documentary about him called Light Keeps Me Company. I believe he developed a disease late in life that was like Alzheimers sort of, but not exactly - it had something to do with spatial orientation. I do believe he was a bit older than Bergman, but not sure about that.

He is one of my favorite cinematographers and will be greatly missed.

Post by **cubdukat** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:39 pm

I haven't seen any of his work, but I am definitely going to now. This is truly a great loss for the art.

Post by **narri** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:13 pm

I just finished reading his book, and I encourage you all to do so as well. It was very inspiring and interesting.

Since I live quite close to Sweden, I even nurtured the childish idea of meeting the man some day.

Post by **maxvolt** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:58 pm

Nice picture.. Ingmar and Sven.. is it a canon 814 (???) http://www.svd.se/images/dynamiskt/bild ... 08A%7D.jpg

Post by **freddiesykes** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:52 pm

His work with Tarkovsky on Offret (The Sacrafice) was brilliant as well.

Post by **Actor** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:17 pm

ccortez wrote:I do believe he was a bit older than Bergman, but not sure about that.

Nykvist was born 2 Dec 1922. Bergman was born 14 Jul 1918.

Post by **ropbo** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:58 am

Evan Kubota wrote:
This is pretty sad. I just saw "Wild Strawberries" and his work was beautiful and spare. I thought he was around the same age as Bergman... I guess not.

Actually "Wild Strawberries" was photographed by Gunnar Fischer with whom Bergman had work in a number of movies in the 50's. When Bergman decided to make "The Virgin Spring" in 1960, Gunnar Fischer was already working on another movie so he ended up choosing Sven Nykvist for the job. And what happened later was that Bergman was so impressed by his work that he then decided to ditch Fischer and use Nykvist in most of his subsequent movies. So that was the beginning of his successful duet with Nykvist .

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:22 am

Strange - but you're right. Having seen Offret I saw many similarities with Nykvist's cinematography there and assumed that since Wild Strawberries was Bergman that Nykvist was involved.

Post by **npcoombs** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 1:12 am

received no mention in the British press - those fucking philistines

Post by **David M. Leugers** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 5:56 am

Rune Ericson came up with S16...

How right you are Evan. I have gotten those two mixed up in the past... I did like Sven's work. He will be missed by fans of great cinematography.

David M. Leugers

Post by **teadub** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:01 am

Evan Kubota wrote:Strange - but you're right. Having seen Offret I saw many similarities with Nykvist's cinematography there and assumed that since Wild Strawberries was Bergman that Nykvist was involved.

It stands to reason, if you read Tarkovski's book, you'll know he is way into Bergman.

Post by **Evan Kubota** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:28 pm

Yes, but I think the opposite was more obvious... Tarkovsky seemed somewhat ambivalent even about Bergman IIRC.