Dagmar Versus 1001 Movies: February 2019

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.

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Top Gun (1986)

USA
directed by: Tony Scott
written by: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr.
starring: Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer
seen on 28th February, 2019

Why would anyone mark this as an important piece of work? I am scratching my head. Is it just so people can know what "Hot Shots!" is mocking?

Thursday, 21 February 2019

Out of Africa (1985)

USA
directed by: Sydney Pollack
written by: Kurt Luedtke + Karen Blixen (book), Judith Thurman (book), Errol Trzebinski (book)
starring: Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Malick Bowens
seen on 21st February, 2019

-"This Chief says: British can read and what good has it done them?"

(Malick Bowens!) But otherwise I don't get the point of making films like this, I'm not sure what to think of them and whetner the makers were even trying to make a point of some sort.

Friday, 1 February 2019

Les Misérables (2012)

United Kingdom
directed by: Tom Hooper
written by: William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg + Victor Hugo (book)
starring: Hugh Jackman, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne
seen on 1st February, 2019

Lately, I started to say that it's not fair to say that I hate musicals straight away without giving it a try first, and, well, maybe it's time for me to start saying that I hate musicals straight away again. It is a rare feat for one film to make me want to hit everybody involved, including some of my very favourite actors, with a brick.