Thursday, September 13, 2007

1001 movies you must see before you die


I finally broke down and bought this one. Big, fat, glossy, well-written, lots of pictures. Lots of movies I'm interested in. Edited by Steven Jay Schneider, published by Barrons, and with a picture of me on the cover.

And of course, one good list deserves another. Here are the movies featured in the book that have a decent shot at winding up in my book, "500 Soul Food Movies: A Guide to Films with a Spiritual Flavour." The ones in bold are shoe-ins.

Intolerance (1916)
Metropolis (1927)
Sunrise (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
M (1931)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Jezebel (1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Sergeant York (1941)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Cat People (1942)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Open City (1945)
Paisan (1946)
Black Narcissus (1946)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Ikiru (1952)
Europa '51 (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Voyage in Italy (1953)
Ugetsu (1953)
Shane (1953)
On the Waterfront (1954)
La Strada (1954)
Sansho the Baliff (1954)
Pather Panchali (1955)
Ordet (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
A Man Escaped (1956)
The Wrong Man (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
12 Angry Men (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Aparajito (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
The World of Apu (1959)
Ben-Hur (1959)
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Viridiana (1961)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Dog Star Man (1962)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Birds (1963)
Winter Light (1963)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
Au Hazard Balthazar (1966)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
My Night at Maud's (1969)
Andrei Rublev (1969)
The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Solaris (1972)
The Godfather (1972)
The Wicker Man (1973)
The Exorcist (1973)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
The Last Wave (1977)
The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Stalker (1979)
All That Jazz (1979)
Being There (1979)
Life of Brian (1979)
The Elephant Man (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Blade Runner (1982)
Gandhi (1982)
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)
Amadeus (1984)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987)
The Decalogue (1988)
Alice (1988)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
The Killer (1989)
Glory (1989)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
King of New York (1990)
Close-Up (1990)
The Rapture (1991)
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
Unforgiven (1992)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Schindler's List (1993)
Blue (1993)
Red (1994)
Forrest Gump (1994)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Clueless (1995)
Seven (1995)
Smoke (1995)
Fargo (1996)
Secrets and Lies (1996)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
The Ice Storm (1997)
Boogie Nights (1997)
Taste of Cherry (1997)
Open Your Eyes (1997)
The Celebration (1998)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Pi (1998)
Magnolia (1999)
Beau Travail (1999)
Rosetta (1999)
The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
Fight Club (1999)
American Beauty (1999)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Matrix (1999)
Kippur (2000)
Yi Yi (2000)
The Gleaners and I (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Amelie (2001)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Russian Ark (2002)

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