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, 19 December 2020

The Red Shoes (1948)

United Kingdom
directed by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
written by: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter + Hans Christian Andersen (fairy tale)
starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
seen on 19th December, 2020

Very, very intentense. All those details and meaningful props. How completely separated from everybody else Lermontov looks in his sunglasses and a hat, I bet that was the inspiration for Coppola's rejuvenated Dracula in London. How suddenly differently Craster looks in a leather coat. But the most essential thing to me is that the dancer is being played by a dancer, body and soul. There is nothing worse than when a film makes a point of being about dance and then casts an actor that only pretend-dances. (There is more that one film that comes to mind, but the remake of Suspiria is the most recent scar on my heart.)

-"You're a magician, Boris, to have produced all this in three weeks, and from nothing." -"Not even the best magician in the world can produce a rabbit out of a hat if there isn't already a rabbit in the hat."

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