This course will view and discuss the work of two of the most important and influential filmmakers of the second half of the twentieth century, Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman. We will take up such crucial films as Antonioni's L'Avventura, Red Desert, and Blow-Up and Bergman's The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Persona, and Scenes from a Marriage. In their very different ways these two filmmakers developed new and powerful narrative and visual approaches for film and opened new terrain in human sexuality and personal interaction, ecological and political concerns, and philosophical issues. These films--even now--push boundaries.