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.

Wednesday, 29 November 2017

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

USA/Canada
directed by: Ang Lee
written by: Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana + Annie Proulx (a short story)

starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
comment: 29th November, 2017

One of those film where I'm watching it and something just doesn't sit well with me, and I'm wondering what it is, because some parts I like a lot, like really like. And then I read somewhere on the internet that Gus van Sant was interested in directing it, a real gay with real experiences with films about people wandering about in nature, being silent and/or mumbling to themselves, and right after that I imagine how gorgeously would this nature and these people and their silence and speaking and inexpressible feelings look under van Sant's direction, and right after that I understand what didn't sit well with me, it was Ang Lee and his dull style.

-"Friend, that's more words than you've spoke in the past two weeks." -"Hell, that's the most I've spoke in a year."

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