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, 1 December 2017

Kundun (1997)

USA
directed by: Martin Scorsese
written by: Melissa Mathison
starring: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin
seen: 1st December, 2017

Lately I mentioned that Scorsese (or his films, should I say) rather pisses me off. Well, Kundun is the best possible way for him to redeem himself in my eyes. I don't feel like explaining the experience of this film with words too much, but I just have to mention how Melissa Mathison uses the good old narrative trick of starting with character's childhood and then jumping forward in time preciously and meaningfully. Many films use this trick and many of these films have no basis for its usage, rendering it superfluous and unutilized, but this film isn't one of those.

-"They have taken away our silence."


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