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, 11 November 2018

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

USA
directed by: Spike Lee
written by: Spike Lee, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel, Kevin Willmott + Ron Stallworth (book)
starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Topher Grace
seen on 11th November, 2018

As far as I can remember, this has to be the best (non-documentary) film about civil rights in the United States I have ever seen. It's smart, detailed, composed, it does great job plaing with its form and genre rules and most, most of all: it is not overcome by emotions like other films (and creators) from the same category (12 Years A Slave, The Birth Of A Nation 2016 etc.) Spike Lee remains calm, the only moment he "lets go" of his "artistic distance" is in the zeitgeist fuelled apendix about the horrible todays happenings. The actors are also precise, natural and believable, I'm just so happy to have found a film so down to earth and still (or thanks to that) impressive to the highest degree. A special mention goes to the music by Terence Blachard which sounded like absolute heaven to my ears.


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