Ingmar Bergman, the director responsible for giving death a face, finally met his own personal oblivion earlier this week.

Bergman's parting transforms the upcoming re-release of The Seventh Seal, a film whose gothic luminosity has lost none of its power since its unveiling 50 years ago, from a celebration into an invitation to mourn.

A brand new 35mm print of this allegorical masterpiece will screen at the Irish Film Institute from August 24th-30th. Seventh Seal virgins who have hitherto encountered the film solely through pastiche may be surprised to discover how many jokes there are in the original.

Less than a day after Bergman's death, Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian master of beautiful obscurity, who brought us L'Avventura and Blow-Up, made his own way to the projection booth in the sky. Watch your back, Jean-Luc Godard - death is coming for your generation next.