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, 27 January 2019

Schindler's List (1993)

USA
directed by: Steven Spielberg
written by: Steven Zaillian + Thomas Keneally (book)
starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
seen on 27th January, 2019

Well, I don't know... In a world where films like "Son of Saul", "The Shop on Main Street" and "The Long Journey" exist I do have a serious problem to see "Schindler's List" like a pivotal work of world cinema. I have to "manually" remind myself that there is more than just one artistic approach but I also can't help myself but think less of some of them. I am screaming "Oh the humanity!" about three times a minute while watching this, but still... Just picture the often quoted scene of a little girl in a red coat. It would be so much powerful if it wasn't interrupted so much by editing. If it was just a long shot from a single perspective followed by a reaction shot of Oscar Schindler's face who "sees it all"... oh my. And the last twenty minutes... well, that was Steven's choice as well.


Posted by at
Labels: , , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Please, keep the conversation classy. Much obliged.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)