I met death today. We are playing chess.

Det Sjunde inseglet, (aka The Seventh Seal), Ingmar Bergman, 1957.

I think a few of you would find this film very worthwhile. I didn't give it proper press a few nights ago, so this is in an effort to articulate to you how rad it is.

Revelation 8:1-2 opens the film, as the crusading knight, Antonius Block, arrives home to Sweeden. On the ocean's shore, he is greeted by Death, with whom he begins a to play a game of chess...

There is an excellent descriptive comment on the imdb page which goes into far greater detail.

If anyone would like to watch the film, you may borrow it, or perhaps we may opt to view it collectively sometime.

technoati tags: foriegn films