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I've been feeling a little bit unsocial lately. Sorry, guys. I've been in one of those "crawl under a rock and sleep forever" moods.
So, I've watched the 1957 animated version of Snezhnaya Koroleva. It was very charming - if you like old animation, it wouldn't hurt to give it a watch. The scene where the Snow Queen sweeps Kay away in her sleigh is fantastic. The movie can be found subtitled in English on youtube, and it's only 1 hour long. From what I've heard, it follows the narrative of Andersen's "The Snow Queen" pretty closely, so if that's relevant to your interests, then it might be worth a look on account of that, too.
I say that it follows the story well "from what I've heard" because honestly, I don't recall ever reading Andersen's "Snow Queen" story. Though I've read a couple different volumes of Andersen, I don't recall ever reading that story - and it seems like the kind of thing that would stick out (I mean, I'm sure I'd remember something like that; anything to do with ice and cold is relevant to my interests) but I just plain don't remember it. So, I can only conclude that it wasn't included in the collections I've read. Though I'll probably read it eventually - I'm sure it's floating around on the internet. But since I'm not very fond of Andersen's stories, it isn't very high on my to-read list.
My favourite fairy tales, by the way, are "The Fisherman and his Wife" (though I've always known that one better as 'The Magic Goldfish'), and "The Talking Eggs". There've been a few times when I've had to tell stories from memory, and those are always my go-to tales.
Anyway. Watching Snezhnaya Koroleva reminded me that I've been meaning to watch more Central/Eastern European films. It isn't an area I've looked at very much, even though I'm interested; I have a list of stuff I've been meaning to watch (mainly Russian and Czech stuff, also some Polish films) but I just haven't managed to get around to it yet. Definitely on that list is Andrei Rublev (1966), of course (it came up as recommendation when I was reading stuff about early Muscovy), and also Ogniem i mieczem (1999) just because the costumes in that one look so cool (17th century Poland ahhhh!!!!), and also a páty jezdec je Strach (1965) but oh gods, that one looks so depressing. One of the CZ tumblrs I follow posts about film every now and then (they have a whole tag for it) so my to-watch list of Czech/Czechoslovak films gets longer and longer....
But man, I need to expand my Central/Eastern Europe to-watch list beyond those three areas. Though I guess it's as good a place to start as any.
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So, I've watched the 1957 animated version of Snezhnaya Koroleva. It was very charming - if you like old animation, it wouldn't hurt to give it a watch. The scene where the Snow Queen sweeps Kay away in her sleigh is fantastic. The movie can be found subtitled in English on youtube, and it's only 1 hour long. From what I've heard, it follows the narrative of Andersen's "The Snow Queen" pretty closely, so if that's relevant to your interests, then it might be worth a look on account of that, too.
I say that it follows the story well "from what I've heard" because honestly, I don't recall ever reading Andersen's "Snow Queen" story. Though I've read a couple different volumes of Andersen, I don't recall ever reading that story - and it seems like the kind of thing that would stick out (I mean, I'm sure I'd remember something like that; anything to do with ice and cold is relevant to my interests) but I just plain don't remember it. So, I can only conclude that it wasn't included in the collections I've read. Though I'll probably read it eventually - I'm sure it's floating around on the internet. But since I'm not very fond of Andersen's stories, it isn't very high on my to-read list.
My favourite fairy tales, by the way, are "The Fisherman and his Wife" (though I've always known that one better as 'The Magic Goldfish'), and "The Talking Eggs". There've been a few times when I've had to tell stories from memory, and those are always my go-to tales.
Anyway. Watching Snezhnaya Koroleva reminded me that I've been meaning to watch more Central/Eastern European films. It isn't an area I've looked at very much, even though I'm interested; I have a list of stuff I've been meaning to watch (mainly Russian and Czech stuff, also some Polish films) but I just haven't managed to get around to it yet. Definitely on that list is Andrei Rublev (1966), of course (it came up as recommendation when I was reading stuff about early Muscovy), and also Ogniem i mieczem (1999) just because the costumes in that one look so cool (17th century Poland ahhhh!!!!), and also a páty jezdec je Strach (1965) but oh gods, that one looks so depressing. One of the CZ tumblrs I follow posts about film every now and then (they have a whole tag for it) so my to-watch list of Czech/Czechoslovak films gets longer and longer....
But man, I need to expand my Central/Eastern Europe to-watch list beyond those three areas. Though I guess it's as good a place to start as any.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3374870.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.