These dark winter days spark memories of my visit to Stockholm years ago, when I had the tremendous good fortune to spend time with the elusive Bergman, who famously did not “schmooze” with other directors. At least not before I met him, and as far as I know not after either. SH. I was in town scouting locations for “After the Blåbärspalt." Naturally, this was before we decided to shoot in Valparaíso (which, as you can imagine, required a significant rewrite and sadly forced us to abandon the exciting sequence at the Torekällberget windmill). SH.

@coppollawines Dear Francis, for some reason my emails keep bouncing back so I'm writing via this message system. How are you and E? I wasn’t sure if you received the Taschen book I sent you last Christmas. (This will have to continue in the "note” attached below. I hope!) SH. As I was saying, I think I heard you mention at some point that you like Schiele, so when I saw the book on sale I thought of you. I hope it brought some holiday cheer. That is, if it arrived. As I said, I never received an acknowledgment. But it's okay. (This will continue.) SH.