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.

Saturday, 7 February 2015

The Shop on Main Street (1965)

Obchod na korze
Czechoslovakia
directed by: Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos
written by: Ladislav Grosman, Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos + Ladislav Grosman (book)
starring: Ida Kamińska, Jozef Kroner, František Zvarík, Hana Slivková
commented on 7th February, 2015

I watched the film for the first time many, many years ago and it left its mark on me alright - probably every script or story I wrote after that includes a dream sequence and I now I even omit the sleeping part, why should not the character be awake for such stuff to happen. A dream-like storytelling is such a simple way to make every mundane thing a poetry, to present reality in a different way without really changing its merit. The Shop on Main Street changes into poetry, but also into theather, and oh my! Such a strong dramatic story to touch your heart and then tear it into pieces.

-"I... I can't understand it. You are a wise man, Mr. Katz, how did this happen all of a sudden?" -"I am not wise. And it did not happen suddenly."

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