I have seen it in paintings and heard it sung in ballads

[sovay]

Max von Sydow has died. He was ninety years old, but I always thought that chess game might go on just a little longer. I saw him first, as spare as an icon in wood, in The Seventh Seal (1957).

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[gwynnega]

I first saw him in The Exorcist and didn't realize at the time that he wasn't really an old man.

[sovay]

I first saw him in The Exorcist and didn't realize at the time that he wasn't really an old man.

The second thing I saw him in was Wild Strawberries (1957) where he plays the random gas station attendant and that was when I realized he was young. He'd been ageless as Antonius Block.

[starlady]

I need to rewatch that movie.

[sovay]

I need to rewatch that movie.

I love it. It was the first film I was ever asked to study and it just so happened that I loved it. For a long time it was the closest thing I would say I had to a favorite movie even though I don't have singular favorites of anything. It's held up to rewatch every time I've tried.