Introduction

1001 movies you must see before you die. Must I? Let's see.

My name is Dagmar and I am from Czech Republic. I have a bachelor's degree in screenwriting. I study movies. I watch movies. I write about movies. I kind of mention movies a lot. I even cross stitch things I like in movies. My views on cinema could be described as peculiar. My views on the "1001 movies" list as complicated. It happens a lot that I get the feeling it wasn't that necessary to see some particular movies. Sometimes I'm really grateful I saw them. And there are also times when I don't watch any new movies for six months straight. And they keep adding new movies every damn year so I might have to never die to watch them all.

What's the score right now?
606/1245 - That's 639 left to see.
I started this experiment on July 3rd 2009 and the latest update was made on April 19th 2023.

You can find the full list here.

Saturday, 10 May 2014

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

USA/Germany/United Kingdom
written and directed by: Wes Anderson
starring: Ralph Fiennes, Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan
seen: 10th May, 2014, additional comment: 6th May, 2018

I went to see the film with a boulder-sized migraine and it still managed to make me laugh out loud like crazy. I guess the less real the "Wes-world" is, the more amused/engaged am I. Maybe it's true that the idea seems to get a bit lost under the surface, but when I see other directors no more being capable to even do form/style properly in their new films (my recent disappointments include Jarmusch - Only Lovers Left Alive, McQueen - Twelve Years a Slave, Burton - just about anything he does these days, Jackson - the dreaded second trilogy) I am very glad that I can say that at least Anderson still knows his stuff.

2018: And thinking back I now one hundred percent don't think that the idea gets smothered by the surface. There's nothing wrong with different types of stories being told. (And I have to make an honorable mention of Saoirse Ronan, who I subconsciously hated ever since The Atonement, courtesy of the character she portrayed there. Well, thanks to the part she plays here my hatred is gone an I am free to notice in different films as well that she is in fact quite an interesting actress.)