The gang over at IFC News have compiled a list of 10 references to Bergman and Antonioni in popular culture. Of course, everyone remembers the Twister-with-Death scene from Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, but the IFC list includes a few unusual suspects, such as Haruki Murakami’s L’Avventura-inspired Sputnik Sweetheart. Overall, it’s a great list, although there’s two items I would add.

The IFC list rightly cites Interiors as the apex of Woody Allen’s expression of his passion for Bergman, but Allen also paid tribute to Antonioni. The “Why do some Women have trouble reaching Orgasm?” segment of Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) is a clear homage to Antonioni-style urban decadence and ennui. It’s also shot in black and white in Italian, so the reference is not exactly subtextual. It’s an absolute crime that a clip of this is not available on YouTube.

And in terms of Bergman references, I’d include “Seventh Seal” by Scott Walker, which you can download here. The opening track on Walker’s 1969 solo album Scott 4, “Seventh Seal” is basically a five-minute remake of Bergman’s 1957 film, set to Spanish guitars. In other words, it is to Bergman’s masterpiece what The White Stripes’ “The Union Forever” is to Citizen Kane, except it pre-dates Jack White’s brush with relevancy by about 30 years. Footnote: Last year, when Walker released The Drift, his first record in a decade, a rapturous Pitchfork review compared it to “a painstakingly fine Ingmar Bergman film, moves slowly and deliberately, with an intense focus and refusal to turn away from disturbing ‘images.’”