1001 Movies you must see before you die

So far I have seen 622 of them.

I've seen 281.

And 865 days later, I finished.

Update: I've now seen 973/1,245 of them (78%).

Can't find:

Deewaar (it's on YouTube, but I can't get any subtitle files to match up to the film)
No Fear, No Die
Lamerica

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IMDb
Letterboxd

Just checked and apparently I'm at 995/1,245. Still not at 1,001 itself.

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Iro's Top 100 Movies v3.0

682. Still denied.

According to Letterboxd stats, I'm at 406/1001

Sorting by popularity, these are the Top 10:

Joker
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Little Women
Call Me By Your Name
Soul
Tenet
Booksmart
Gravity
Chungking Express
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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I was going by that book for like 2 months after getting it.

But the book is pretty bad.

For one, it has a film from 1903 and then the next one is from 1915.

It skips 12 years of cinema.

With each new edition, an old masterpiece is switched to a new film, usually not a very good one.

https://letterboxd.com/peterstanley/...efore-you-die/

You’ve watched
943 of 1,245 - 75%

Not bad given I was only going by that book for a short time in 2012.

I just skimmed through the movies I still haven't seen. And I don't want to watch any of them TBH.

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San Franciscan lesbian dwarves and their tomato orgies.

What masterpieces were taken out? I never really followed before

The Man From Laramie (my favorite Anthony Mann film) and Mulholland Drive.

Could have sworn Mulholland Drive was still on the list

Mine says 526 seen but that's def not accurate since I joined letterboxd in 2015 I think and never really backlogged.

To be fair, over half the 21st century films on the full list don't make it on all the individual lists and get booted off after a year or two. While they still suffer too much from recency bias, their bias for most of the recent releases doesn't last long.

Still though, it's not the best consensus I've come across. I'm currently using (I think) the 2020 list to get recommendations from. Once I'm done with it, I'll likely have over 100 movies left to see on the full list, but if most of those turn out to be 21st century films, I'll likely just switch over to something else.

I don't think there's a loooot of recency bias. I mean, the list peaks in the 1980s as far as quantity, and 1960s through 1990s are fairly close.

How about you just kill me by making me watch them all back-to-back?

My main point of contention is that, with maybe a few exceptions here and there, it's probably not good to include any films from the past decade into a list like that. Let them age a bit before deciding whether or not they're worthy of making the list. For instance, the 2022 Sight & Sound poll had far less recent films in their top 100, and I'd still argue that list (though I still liked it quite a bit) suffered from recency bias. 1001 Movies is definitely the worse offender of the two though.

I finished the full, long list this year (1,245 movies in total) - I enjoyed going through it, and I like that it wasn't just a "best of", but included a broad canvass of films, things that were notorious, or groundbreaking or unusual, etc - doing that got me to watch movies I probably would have ignored otherwise.

I had heart surgery in Jan, and when I got home from the hospital and settled with my first BD, it hit me, "this really could be the last movie I see before I die?" I was going through the list at a slow pace, but after that I hit it hard, that was about all I was watching. Some were difficult to track down - I can't remember where I found Bus 174 with English subs, but it was someplace I'd never visited before.

The last one was Signs & Wonders on May 16th, I had to buy a used DVD to see it - i noticed that it was also the least viewed film on the list (Letterboxd stats), I was only the 526th person to mark it as watched at that point.

Highlights from that final months long push...

* The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982)
* Méditerranée (1963)
* The Captive (2000)
* Wild Reeds (1994)

Literally, you'd be better off with my list of 200 masterpieces.

that is astonishing if true.

Ones I'm unfamiliar with:
4. Les Vampires (1915)
9. Within Our Gates (1920)
11. Orphans of the Storm (1921)
12. La Souriante Madame Beudet (1922)
16. Haxan (1923)
17. Foolish Wives (1922)
18. Our Hospitality (1923)
19. The Wheel (1923)
21. Strike (1924)
22. Greed (1924)
24. The Last Laugh (1924)
25. Seven Chances (1925)
29. The Big Parade (1925)
33. The Unknown (1927)
34. October (1927)
37. The Kid Brother (1927)
39. The Docks of New York (1928)
40. An Andalusian Dog (1928)
43. Storm over Asia (1928)
48. L'Age D'Or (1930)
49. Earth (1930)
50. Little Caesar (1930)
52. À Nous la Liberté (1931)
53. Le Million (1931)
60. La Chienne (1931)
62. Love Me Tonight (1932)
63. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
64. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
65. Trouble in Paradise (1932)
69. Me and My Gal (1932)
70. Zero for Conduct (1933)
72. Footlight Parade (1933)
73. Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
74. She Done Him Wrong (1933)
76. Queen Christina (1933)
77. Las Hurdes (1933)
79. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
80. Sons of the Desert (1933)
81. It's a Gift (1934)
84. The Black Cat (1934)
85. Judge Priest (1934)
88. Captain Blood (1935)
99. Camille (1936)
100. Sabotage (1936)
101. Dodsworth (1936)
102. Things to Come (1936)
103. The Story of a Cheat (1936)
104. Captains Courageous (1937)
105. Song At Midnight (1937)
107. Stella Dallas (1937)
108. The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
109. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
113. Jezebel (1938)
116. Olympia (1938)
117. The Baker's Wife (1938)
118. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
121. Babes in Arms (1939)
127. Daybreak (1939)
128. Gunga Din (1939)
129. Ninotchka (1939)
134. Fantasia (1940)
137. Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
139. The Mortal Storm (1940)
140. The Bank Dick (1940)
143. The Wolf Man (1941)
145. Sergeant York (1941)
150. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
151. Now, Voyager (1942)
153. To Be or Not to Be (1942)
158. Fires Were Started (1943)
159. The Man in Grey (1943)
161. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
162. The Seventh Victim (1943)
167. To Have and Have Not (1944)
169. Gaslight (1944)
170. Henry V (1944)
171. Ivan the Terrible (1944) Parts 1 and 2
173. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
174. The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
175. Spellbound (1945
179. The Lost Weekend (1945)
181. I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
190. The Killers (1946)
191. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
202. Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
203. Secret Beyond the Door (1948)
204. Force of Evil (1948)
205. Spring in a Small Town (1948)
208. The Snake Pit (1948)
210. Paleface (1948)
213. Louisiana Story (1948)
214. The Heiress (1949)
215. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) I NEED TO WATCH THIS
218. Whiskey Galore! (1949)
220. The Reckless Moment (1949)
222. On the Town (1949)
223. Orpheus (1949)
230. Los Olvidados (1950)
232. The Big Carnival (1951)
236. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
240. A Place in the Sun (1951)
243. Forbidden Games (1952)
244. Angel Face (1952)
248. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
249. The Big Sky (1952)
252. The Golden Coach (1952)
253. The Bigamist (1953)
254. The Band Wagon (1953)
259. The Wages of Fear (1953)
260. The Naked Spur (1953)
261. Pickup on South Street (1953)
268. Beat the Devil (1953)
269. Johnny Guitar (1954)
280. Silver Lode (1954)
281. Carmen Jones (1954)
283. Salt of the Earth (1954)
284. Artists and Models (1955)
288. The Mad Masters (1955)
289. Hill 24 Doesn't Answer (1955)
291. Marty (1955)
295. The Man from Laramie (1955)
297. The Phenix City Story (1955)
298. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
299. Night and Fog (1955)
Etetera etcetera

Very sorry to hear of the surgery, and great that you are doing well.

Absolutely incredible on the list!!!!