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.

Friday, 31 July 2015

Heaven And Earth Magic (1962)

USA
written and directed by: Harry Smith
comment: 31st July, 2015

I would like to see this film with a live musical score sometime, somewhere. As far as I remember from the history of animated avantgarde cinema, I enjoyed European directors more (and mainly Raoul Servais, and I recommed his "Harpya" the most), but Smith is kind of a different story. When it comes to the runtime, I will gladly give an hour of my time to watch somebody else's out-of-body experience, especially when I compare it to the amounts of time modern convetional film-makers demand the viewer gives them. And also probably because I will never take even so much as an approximate volume of drugs as Harry Smith to see these things firsthand. He is offering a lesson in friskiness against the prevalent sensation that everything about art must be serious and important, as well as extending a middle finger at anybody willing to be offended by such a trifle of a film.


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