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.

Monday, 18 December 2017

13th (2016)

USA
directed by: Ava DuVernay
written by: Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick
appearing: Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates, Van Jones
seen: 18th December, 2017

It may be possible I'm at the point where I've forgotten how to evaluate documentaries. It seems to me that the ideas discussed are being overshadowed by a very amateurish approach of the film-makers. The (over)use of graphics and music was rather terrible and even the way the interviews and archive materials were edited together seemed more like it was a quickly put together show from a cheap network and not like a serious creative testimony. Any of John Oliver's coverages of one of these topics would seem a lot more professional than this. He and his team at least do not hide the fact that they are being emotionaly manipulative. I think this documentary can have informational value only to those who never heard or read a single word about this subject matter.


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