I am not crazy or OCD enough to think I’ll ever get through all 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die , but a few years ago when I got the book, I did want to tally up how many I’d seen from the list which begins with 1902’s Le Voyage Dans La Lune ( A Trip to the Moon , d: Georges Melies) and ends with Kill Bill, Volume 1 – at least in the 2004 edition. Janet Leigh as Marion Crane in Psycho (1960) At the time of my first count, I’d seen around 550 – since then I’ve caught up with a few more and subsequent editions of the book have added 78 more titles from the 2000s and presumably slicing out films that no longer make the cut. I have seen 44 of the 78 newer films, or 56% of the 1079 total. This represents a self-guided film education, which has slowed down over recent years. Still, I sometimes get around to watching films from the 1001 list that I’ve always been meaning to see. The most recent – Slacker from 1991. Director Richard Linklater is responsible for what I occasio
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