1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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Author	various (general editor:) Steven Jay Schneider
Country	Australia
Language	English
Publication date	2003 (first edition)
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	960
ISBN	ISBN 0-7641-5701-9

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (ISBN 0-7641-5701-9) is a film reference book compiled by various critics worldwide and edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Each title is accompanied by a brief synopsis and critique, some with pictures. Presented chronologically, the current edition begins with Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon in 1902 and concludes with Joe Wright's 2007 film Atonement. Contributors include Adrian Martin, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Richard Pena, David Stratton, and Margaret Pomeranz.

The book was especially popular in Australia, where it was the seventh best-selling book in the country for a week in April 2004.^[1] It was also promoted alongside the presentation of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's My Favourite Film television special.^[2]

1 25 Movies You Must See Before You Die
2 25 Docs You Must See Before You Die
3 Selected reviews
4 References
5 See also

[edit] 25 Movies You Must See Before You Die

From March 1 to August 16, 2005, World Movies and SBS ran 25 Films You Must See Before You Die which selected twenty five titles from the book and ran them once a week^[3].

The films chosen were:

Seven Samurai (1954)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Metropolis (1927)
Dersu Uzala (1974)
Blowup (1966)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Battleship Potemkin (1925)
8½ (1963)
Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) (1928)
Kes (1969)
Breathless (1959)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

Modern Times (1936)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Solaris (1972)
City of God (2002)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Nosferatu, a Symphony of Terror (1922)
Umberto D. (1952)
Three Colours: Blue (1993)
The Battle of Algiers (1965)
Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)

[edit] 25 Docs You Must See Before You Die

From April 3 to September 18, 2007, World Movies showed 25 Docs You Must See Before You Die^[4]. Select documentaries were from the 1001 Movies book (in bold).

Triumph of the Will (1935)
Grey Gardens (1975)
To Be and to Have (2002)
Dont Look Back [sic] (1967)
I Was a Fireman (1943)
In the Year of the Pig (1968)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
The Last Waltz (1978)
Brother's Keeper (1992)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
The Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
For All Mankind (1989)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

Häxan (1922)
Spellbound (2002)
The Gleaners and I (2000)
Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
When We Were Kings (1996)
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997)
Best Boy (1979)
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Silverlake Life: The View from Here (1993)
My Flesh and Blood (2003)
Hearts and Minds (1974)

[edit] Selected reviews

Bernard Trink (20 April 2007). "As Good as They Come", Bangkok Post, p. R11.
Ron Rollins (30 January 2005). "Read the book then see the movies", Dayton Daily News, p. F1.
Abigail Wild (12 November 2003). "1001 ways to give cinema new scope", The Herald, p. 13.
Peter Haran (23 May 2004). "The must-see movies of all time", Sunday Mail, p. 84.

[edit] References

^ "Best sellers", The Sunday Telegraph (18 April 2004).
^ My Favourite Film, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
^ World Movies' 25 Films You Must See Before You Die microsite (hosted by the Internet Archive)
^ World Movies' 25 Docs You Must See Before You Die microsite

[edit] See also

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