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, 30 December 2020

The Ice Storm (1997)

USA/France
directed by: Ang Lee
written by: James Schamus + Rick Moody (book)

starring: Joan Allen, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Sigourney Weaver
seen on 30th December, 2020

I would be rather interested to find out how it's possible that Mychael Danna's score for The Ice Storm has been one of my favourite soundtrack for years without me ever seeing the film itself before. In any case, this is one of those movies where it's kind of impossible for me to make my own opinion of them because I remember it being one of my mum's favourite films, and all of my mum's films become shrines and mementos of her and as such I cannot consciously or unconsciously question them.

Nevertheless, I can say that apart from that deliciously melancholy music I was deeply touched by the interplay of what was going on in the story with the enviroment where it was happening: naked trees, dead leaves on the ground, wind, cold, that depersonalized house, and of course ice.

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