List by Peter Stanley
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
All the films from all the editions, including those subsequently removed, presently totalling 1103. An easy way of seeing how many you've watched or finding films to try out.
Some single entries in the book consist of multiple films. In these cases I have added only one of the films with links to the others in 'notes'.
I've tried to be as accurate and complete as possible, but if you spot any errors or omissions, please, do let me now.
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Thanks for the list!
Awesome list man. It may take me the rest of my life but I hope to one day have seen 100% of this list.
241 movies out of the list! thanks for putting this up. I only have one edition of the book (Darth Vader cover) and I always highlight any movies that I've seen and a small remark. It's hard to keep up which movies are added and which ones are removed.
I've been working on this list off and on for the last 7 years and I only watched 247 of them. Probably should get cracking on it.
481 for me. Thanks for putting so much effort into this list!
It's those damn Westerns and sci-fi flicks that get me every time. I've only seen 441 of these.
I remember seeing this type of list years ago in the Internet. Thanks for putting it up here. 199 films seen, much more to go... but I'm young, a lot of time to watch them! :)
I'm not sure if you've heard, but the 10th anniversary edition (2013) has been announced and it will have a larger than usual number of changes in it - 50. I speculated on what might get added/removed. I'd appreciate it if you'd like to share your thoughts with us on what you hope to see. You can find that discussion here:
tipsfromchip.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-2013-edition-of-1001-movies-you.html
(FYI - I'm at 938 of 1,103 and climbing.)
Thanks for the info Chip! Your speculations are very insightful about the reality of this monster list and you make good cases for inclusions and deletions. I'd pretty much go along with all of them, or at least the one's I've seen, except for 'An Inconvenient Truth'. That film bugs me. But as we're only talking about impact and not taste or in this case beliefs, I concede it most likely does qualify.
Teorema (1968) and Naked (1993) seem to have been overlooked. Also I'd suggest that anyone who hasn't seen 'A New Leaf' (1971) could vastly improve their lives in a mere 102 minutes.
Good luck with conquering the 1103!
Thanks. I haven't seen any of those three. I will have to check them out.
You're right that the list is ultimately more about impact than quality. There are probably a couple hundred entries I've seen that I haven't liked and there has been more than one that I thought just out and out sucked. Vinyl by Andy Warhol comes to mind. It literally has the production values of teenagers screwing around on Youtube, but it was done by Warhol so that apparently makes it high art.