‘De Düva’: Like ‘The Swedish Chef,’ but for film nerds
August 2, 2007 at 6:30 pm by Curt Holman in Not-lantaThis might come a little late, but amid all the obituaries for and tributes to late Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (Salon.com said he “may have been the 20th century’s greatest artistâ€), there has also been a resurgence of interest in “De Düva,†a hilarious black-and-white Bergman parody from 1968 that stars Madeline Kahn and George Coe (the latter also directed it). It’s about 15 minutes long, and you can find it not only on this blog but also at Slate.com here.
Perhaps people have been remembering “De Düva†so fondly because it harks back to a time when heavy, highbrow foreign-language cinema had enough of a following that you could make a parody of it and enough people would get the joke to make it worth doing. It’s hard to imagine someone doing a similar spoof of, say, Iranian cinema today.
I can’t help but wonder: Years from now, when George Lucas becomes “one with the Force,†as one might put it, will there be a sudden resurgence of affection for “Hardware Wars“?
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:39 pm
>>It’s hard to imagine someone doing a similar spoof of, say, Iranian cinema today.
No respect.