Lord Melvyn Bragg
Writer/Broadcaster
Writer and producer Melvyn Bragg is perhaps best known for his work on LWT’s The Southbank Show, which he has written, edited and produced since 1978. He is also a renowned author and has written a large variety of fiction and non-fiction books over a writing career spanning five decades.
Q1 Which one film would you wish to share with future generations?
The Seventh Seal
Sweden 1957
Bergman's Medieval masterpiece with cinema's most iconic image of Death.
I think the film would have to be The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman.
There is a mass of others beating at the brain from great European to Great American films & yes to great British films but The Seventh Seal uses film to tell a profound & timeless story about the returning hero (which is at the beginning of our Western Literature since the Odyssey) & the imminence of death.
It was acted with impeccable power. It caught a medieval period perfectly & it contains some of the great memorable images in cinema.
Q2 What excites you about the future of the moving image?
What excites me about the future of film is that again & again it is harnessing two factors which are essentially important to me & I think to most great artists. Not always, not often but enough times, it is both popular & deeply distinguished with an iron grip on posterity.