1001 Movies you must see before you die

I presume this is the 1,245?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls086943833/

I'm perplexed to see that the list doesn't include Andrzej Zulawski's Possession (1981).
The acting performances are so unique that descriptions like "great" and "masterpiece" simply aren't relevant anymore.

Looks like it - and if a person has a Letterboxd account, you can find it there as well, and track your progress - https://letterboxd.com/peterstanley/...efore-you-die/

Going off of the letterboxd link posted:
https://letterboxd.com/peterstanley/...efore-you-die/
(I feel the need to include the reference link since they keep updating the list, so source lists will change):

638 of 1245, so 51%.

I'd say of the ones I haven't seen, most of the ones that I'm interested in seeing, I've already gathered my interest from other places. The latter entries in the list really feel like a hodgepodge of appealing to a lot of different sensibilities, so it doesn't really bolster the sense of anyone actually wanting to use this list as a guide of movies they actually want to watch (though admittedly, that's through the lens of, don't recommend me movies I know I'm not interested in, because it lowers the trust that the movies I may not have heard of will be in my wheelhouse either).

It suited my movie mindset because I want to watch it all, if you like a movie and recommend it, sure, I'll give it a go. I might end up hating it, but no matter, glad to have found out either way. I love the journey, the discoveries, especially when they surprised me.

For example - I struggle with Chantal Akerman, so when I saw "The Captive", I was like, "aw gee, really?" I kept putting it off, until I reached a point where the list was getting thinner, so, I might as well take the plunge. And wouldn't you know it, I loved the darn thing, was just blown away by it. Funny thing, there are Akerman fans who consider it one of her lesser pieces (some, not all) but for me it was, "Yippee, I finally found my Akerman flick! Let's throw confetti and raise a glass!"

There were others like that, and those were the best, the happy, surprising discoveries.

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Completed Extant Filmographies: Luis Buñuel, Federico Fellini, Satyajit Ray, Fritz Lang, Andrei Tarkovsky, Buster Keaton, Yasujirō Ozu, Carl Th. Dreyer - (for favorite directors who have passed or retired, 10 minimum)

Based on this imdb list, I have seen 908 of the 1245.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls08694383...tings=restrict

My watch list up to 1939:

Buster Keaton - Our Hospitality 1923


Strike (Eisenstein, 1925)


Seven Chances (Keaton, 1925)


THE UNKNOWN (1927) Lon Chaney


"Un Chien Andalou" (1929)


Storm Over Asia (1928)


L'Age D'or (1930)


Earth (1930)


À nous la liberté 다시보기 1931


The Bitch - La Chienne (1931) - Jean Renoir


Top Hat (1935)


Mr Deeds Goes To Town 1936


Sabotage 1936


The Lady Vanishes 1938

Strike (1925) is outstanding.

I'm surprised by that too. I've seen 363 of the bigger list.

Also no Labyrinth or Dark Crystal? You can't put "There's Something About Mary" in a best movie list, and then omit Jim Jenson's two masterpieces. Also no Nausicaa Valley of the Wind, Clue, or The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Went through the list here: https://www.listchallenges.com/1001-...-chronological

Looks like I've seen about 529/1,245. Guess I've got a while left to live.

I feel like it would kill me to watch this many movies.

I feel like I'm trapped with nymphomaniacs who are insisting that these are the thousand or so people you must copulate with before you die.

The enthusiast's sense of "must" leans in the direction of eternity ("Oooh, but there is also this one!!!).

Not much love for recent Disney, aside from Pixar.

No Arsenic and Old Lace? Yellow Submarine? They really think it doesn't meet the great heights of 'Meet the Parents'?

No Deep Red or Yojimbo, but plenty of room for Tenet and the Force Awakens?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this list was discontinued like two years ago, right? Because I haven't seen updates in a long time.

Anyway, I bought the book of the 2016-2017? edition, the one with La La Land. There is a lot to criticize on its policies to include and exclude stuff each year, particularly when all the newer entries were films from that year and most of the ones that left were classics. It's a fun list, but it's also one that doesn't hold much weight as a solid "canon" list, compared with other similar projects. Mainly due to that weird self-imposition to include a selection of current viral blockbusters or festival darlings each year and remove older stuff at discretion.

Wow, first this led me to finding Strike (1925) which I rate as the blueprint for masterpieces.
Now it's found me the STUNNING Seven Chances (1925). This is Keaton's best film I have no doubt.
Unfortunately there's a couple of bits of pretty bad racism in Seven Chances, but it is without a shadow of a doubt and by a country mile, the greatest slapstick comedy of all time.

It's a very good one! I watched most of my remaining Keaton's silent features last year, and beyond the more usual favorites like The General or Sherlock Jr., I found The cameraman amazing. Have you seen it?

Come on lad, you're not getting off duty that lightly. Look lively.

Not finished the first part yet posted yesterday, but here's my to watch list continued to the end of the 40s (which is probably about where the youtube links run out):

The Lady Eve 1941
??

To Be or Not to Be (1942)


The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (finally)
??

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)


Gaslight (1944)


Ivan the Terrible, Part One (1944)


Ivan the Terrible - Part II (1946)


Children of Paradise (1945)
??

Spellbound (1945)
??

Notorious (1946)


Force of Evil (1948)


Spring in a Small Town (1948)


Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
??

From the 50s only 2:

The Big Heat (1953)

The Wrong Man (1956)

From the 60s only 2:

Peeping Tom (1960)

Markéta Lazarová (1967)


70s only 1:
Tristana (1970)

80s:
Diva (1981)

Das Boot (1981)

Babette's Feast (1987)

Landscape in the Mist (1988)

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

90s:
Reversal of Fortune (1990)

Cyclo (1995)


Happiness (1998)


Three Kings (1999)

As to talk about missing movies - sure, there's a lot that could be included - you could add another thousand, and folks would still find something they love that wasn't included. But to me, that's beside the point, it's going through what is there, making those discoveries that's the kick (and I'm aware I'm saying "discovery" too often, lol, but that's what it was for me, a trip through this particular list, making discoveries - I also do other lists and such (all the acting Oscar nominees, for another example)

And I'm not sure why there's not been an update, I think I read somewhere that the pandemic might have had a hand in that. But are they planning a return?

I'll also add that it didn't kill me to watch that many, it enriched me. It was fun. (and please, with all the movies I've seen over the course of my life, 1001 is a drop in the bucket)

The Man From Laramie and Mulholland Drive are both still in the list (1245).

There is much less I am unfamiliar with in the 50s-70s.
For that 30 year period I only found 5 films I want to watch.
Surprised at that as I thought I knew the earlier decades well.