... movies you must see before you die - a book you should read ... if you are a film fan and a very optimistic person to hope to see at least half those films. After getting that big book, before beginning reading it, I was proudly thinking about the many movies I've seen so far. Then I began skimming through the good edited book, recognizing many titles, from which a few I've seen, but from all the 1001 ... The feeling I have now is close to frustration. Of not having seen lots of the recommended movies. Or maybe not frustration just an uncomfortable feeling about this ... idea.
Starting with George Melies' Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) and ending with Tsotsi (2005) by Gavin Hood, the book chronologically presents various worldwide critics choices for the 1001 movies one must see. Edited by Steven Jay Schneider, it was especially popular in Australia. Here World Movies, an Australian subscription television channel that broadcasts foreign films, together with SBS (Special Broadcasting Service - one of the two government funded Australian public broadcasting radio and TV networks, the other being ABC) selected 25 titles from the book and ran them once a week in spring/summer 2005.
The 25 chosen films were:
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (1922) - dir. F.W. Murnau
The Battleship Potemkin (1924) - dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Metropolis (1927) - dir. Fritz Lang
Un Chien Andalou (1928) - dir. Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí
Boudou Saved from Drowning (1932) - dir. Jean Renoir
Modern Times (1936) - dir. Charlie Chaplin
The Rules of the Game (1939) - dir. Jean Renoir
Les Enfants du Paradis (1944) - dir. Marcel Carné
Umberto D. (1952) - dir. Vittorio de Sica
Seven Samurai (1954) - dir. Akira Kurosawa
The Seventh Seal (1957) - dir. Ingmar Bergman
Mon Oncle (1958) - dir. Jacques Tati
Breathless (1960) - dir. Jean-Luc Godard
8 1/2 (1963) - dir. Federico Fellini
The Battle of Algiers (1965) - dir. Gillo Pontecorvo
Blowup (1966) - dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Kes (1969) - dir. Ken Loach
Solaris (1972) - dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
The Last Tango in Paris (1972) - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Dersu Uzala (1975) - dir. Akira Kurosawa
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) - dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Raise the Red Lantern (1991) - dir. Zhang Yimou
Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993) - dir. Krzysztof Kieslowki
Breaking the Waves (1996) - dir. Lars von Trier
City of God (2002) - dir. Fernando Meireilles & Kátia Lund
From this 25 I've seen 1, 2 ... 3.
2 comments:
you could see all 1001 in some year if you take your time (after dinner) and watch every evening at least 2...
good luck:) and good night...
:)))))
Thank you! I hope it will take me less than some year just to get my hands on all these movies... But I'm optimistic :)
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