Dagmar Versus 1001 Movies: September 2018

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.

Sunday, 16 September 2018

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

USA
directed by: David Hand
written by: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm (book)
starring: Lucille La Verne, Adriana Caselotti, Moroni Olsen
comment: 16th September, 2018

-"How do you do?" -"How do you do what?!"

I am slightly, very slightly, hesitating how to evaluate this rendition of Snow White. On one hand, it was the first film I ever saw on the big screen as a little kid (and I even remember the visit, the sitting down, the lights going out and the opening of "the doors of perception"). On the other hand, it still is a film about the healing power of cleaning and other housework and that does not fulfil my idea of the perfect fairy tale. And that is still speaking on behalf of that little kid sitting in the cinema. I watched the film now to see it as an educated professional but I found myself to still be that simple kid that enjoyed that one joke and the few mildly horror-ish moments and that's about it.