1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
This cover has a still from Psycho
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 Gavin Hood 's 2005 film Tsotsi. 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]

Contents 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

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)

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)

Selected reviews

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

References

See also

• 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

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