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, 4 April 2019

The Boat (1981)

Das Boot
West Germany
written and directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
starring: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Erwin Leder
seen on 4th April, 2019

Oh boy, what a roller-coaster of emotions, but maybe actually a spiral leading towards the only possible ending. Nice example of a film where its (extreme) length is not only justifiable but also completely necessary for all the twists in emotions to settle down meaningfully instead of it being just a pointless cluster/sequence of events. (Ehm, I'm looking accusingly at you, present-day blockbusters.)

P.S.: I already knew that Erwin Leder's face is quite unbelievable, but damn...!

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