A terrible summer for true film lovers

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This is turning out to be a devastating summer for people who love film!!!!!!!  First, we have had the loss of Sherman Torgan, owner of the New Beverly.  That has been followed by the loss of Ingmar Bergman, French actor Michel Serrault, cinematographer László Kovács and now Michelangelo Antonioni.  What is the world coming to????  A friend of mine who works in film preservation sent me the following note this morning….. What a terrible time.  I think people are feeling it from all over the world.  Here is an excerpt from Bergman’s oft-quoted essay “The Snakeskin”: “There is an old story of how the cathedral of Chartres was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Then thousands of people came from all points of the compass, like a giant procession of ants, and together they began to rebuild the cathedral on its old site. They worked until the building was completed — master builders, artists, labourers, clowns, noblemen, priests, burghers. But they all remained anonymous, and no one knows to this day who built the cathedral of Chartres. The artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God. ‘Eternal values,’ ‘immortality’ and ‘masterpiece’ were terms not applicable in his case. The ability to create was a gift. Thus if I am asked what I would like the general purpose of my films to be, I would reply that I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon’s head, an angel, a devil — or perhaps a saint — out of stone. Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral.” I honestly can’t think of anything more to say or add to this….... http://www.filmradar.com/karies_blog/item/a_terrible_summer_for_true_film_lovers/