Old Blues Chapter and Verse | Reaping Dignity: Bergman and Saramago @OldBluesChapterandVerse | Uploaded August 2019 | Updated October 2024, 37 seconds ago.
The latest video in my Booktube project on mortality, You Carry a Coffin Today, the announcement video of which can be seen here:

youtube.com/watch?v=zpDj0MdLkZI

In this video, I discuss the significance of upholding dignity during the process of dying and in the midst of wholesale death in relation to Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal and Jose Saramago's novel Death with Interruptions. Also mentioned in this video is Wim Wenders's film Wings of Desire.

The remaining 2019 schedule in this project is thus:

*book or play
~film
°poems

August:
*no book this month
~ A Ghost Story (dir: David Lowery)
°In Memoriam AHH: Cantos LXI – LXXX

September:
*no book this month
~Three Colors: Blue (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
°In Memoriam AHH: Cantos LXXXI – LXXXV

October:
*no book this month
~Jacob’s Ladder (dir: Adrian Lyne)
°In Memoriam AHH: Cantos LXXXVI – XCIV

November:
*Nothing to Be Frightened Of (Julian Barnes)
~Hunger (dir: Steve McQueen)
°In Memoriam AHH: Cantos XCV – CX

December:
*Benediction (Kent Haruf)
~The Widow of Saint-Pierre (dir: Patrice Leconte)
°In Memoriam AHH: Cantos CXI – Epilogue