British film director Ken Russell told the BBC: "He was probably the greatest film maker,"Boilerplate respectful obit stuff. But then:
You don't say?... describing him as a "very gloomy Swede".
"He could hardly bear to watch his own movies, apparently they made him so miserable," he said.
Yeah, and think how the rest of us feel! He made 50 of them suckers. Here's an anti-paean to the man and his craft. I prefer to mark his passing with an homage, however. Behold: Hazardous Dukes. My favorite line belongs to Daisy Duke:
I neither love nor hate. I couple with men to numb my existential abyss.
