This would have been up hours ago, but I’ve been besieged by
powerful thunderstorms all day. Now and
then my UPS/Surge Protector takes a hit and shuts things down to protect my
computer. After the third or fourth time
it gets really annoying. I’ve basically
been typing between the lightning strikes.
Anyway.
I have now gone through the entire 2012 and 2013 Editions
side by side and put together the list of all changes the latest edition made
to the 1,001 Movies You Must See Before You Die list. I will list those below, along with where you
can see them, as well as some thoughts and analysis on what got added and
removed. Overall, 47 films got added, 3
got re-added, 50 got removed, and one entry got changed. The latter resulted in two more films being
added, but without adding extra entries.
I will explain below. The total list now contains 1,152 entries.
General Book Changes:
They are using a new, smaller font for the title of the
films. It looks better and it takes up
less space. They have also added the
director’s name to the title line. They
also corrected the foreign language film titles to be lowercase after the first
word. Most of the page entries have been
changed in one way or another. Any that
are a full page or two pages now include additional facts and quotes in the
formerly unused space in the column beside the text. They also have the original movie posters
included. They have fixed some typos,
bad grammar, and incorrect years given for some of the films. I noticed some errors still carried over to
this edition, though. Overall, you could
tell they tried to clean up some of the mistakes, which is a good thing. The section where the cast, crew, and awards
are listed is now smaller and therefore harder to read – the only negative thing
I have to say with all the changes. They
did a good job with the new page presentations.
Films That Were
Added:
Note: The numbering system for the new list is yet to be
determined, since almost the entire list will need to undergo numbering
changes. For now I have simply labeled
the new films “2013.01, 2013.02, etc.”
Number
|
Title
|
Year
|
Can Be Seen/Comments
|
2013.01
|
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen
Achmed)
|
1926
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.02
|
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
|
2003
|
Netflix Instant, Netflix DVD, Hulu Plus
The book incorrectly lists the title as “Aileen Wuornos:
The Life…”
|
2013.03
|
Amour
|
2012
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.04
|
Argo
|
2012
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.05
|
Bowling for Columbine
|
2002
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.06
|
The Cabin in the Woods
|
2012
|
Netflix DVD, Netflix Instant
The book incorrectly lists the year as 2011.
|
2013.07
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
|
2010
|
Netflix Instant, Netflix DVD
|
2013.08
|
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si e fermato a Eboli)
|
1979
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.09
|
The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell'amore)
|
2004
|
Not on Netflix or Youtube.
It can be seen here:
http://filenuke.com/78x8mv0auidn
|
2013.10
|
Dead Ringers
|
1988
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.11
|
The Devils
|
1971
|
Not on Netflix. It
can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
BK0s3A6d3Y&list=PLBDTxYbpPUJ
EAqUQPsPdYzwvAvG3ipgzw
|
2013.12
|
Distant Voices, Still Lives
|
1988
|
Not on Netflix. It
can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=zVAxAt0pDK4
|
2013.13
|
Diva
|
1981
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.14
|
Django Unchained
|
2012
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.15
|
The Draughtsman’s Contract
|
1982
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.16
|
The Eagle
|
1925
|
Not on Netflix. It
can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=2E7K596VuSo
|
2013.17
|
Elephant
|
2003
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.18
|
The Exiles
|
1961
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.19
|
The Exterminating Angel (El angel exterminidor)
|
1962
|
Netflix DVD, Hulu Plus
|
2013.20
|
F for Fake (Verites et mensonges)
|
1973
|
Netflix DVD, Hulu Plus
|
2013.21
|
Field of Dreams
|
1989
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.22
|
Fireworks (Hana-Bi)
|
1997
|
Not on Netflix or Youtube.
It can be downloaded here: http://www.filestube.com/
b6GbU5bfLrwwQ9D4jNobbf
|
2013.23
|
The Goddess (Shen nu)
|
1934
|
Not on Netflix. It
can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=Vw-jEWy8HeQ
|
2013.24
|
The Great White Silence
|
1924
|
Not on Netflix or Youtube.
It can be downloaded here:
http://avaxhome.ws/video/Format/
documentary/The.Great.White.
Silence.1924.DVDRip.html
|
2013.25
|
The Hired Hand
|
1971
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.26
|
The Lady Vanishes
|
1938
|
Netflix DVD, Netflix Instant, Hulu Plus
|
2013.27
|
Les Miserables
|
2012
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.28
|
Life of Pi
|
2012
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.29
|
Limite
|
1931
|
Not on Netflix. It
can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=vZ_Zwh3u2SI
|
2013.30
|
2012
|
Netflix DVD
|
|
2013.31
|
Local Hero
|
1983
|
Not on Netflix. It
can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=Nh0ja-BTpbk
|
2013.32
|
The Man with the Golden Arm
|
1955
|
Netflix DVD, Hulu Plus
|
2013.33
|
Mary Poppins
|
1964
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.34
|
Moolaade
|
2004
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.35
|
Mrs. Miniver
|
1942
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.36
|
1955
|
Netflix DVD
|
|
2013.37
|
Osama
|
2003
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.38
|
Peter Ibbetson
|
1935
|
Netflix DVD
The book incorrectly lists the title as “Peter Ibbertson”.
|
2013.39
|
RoboCop
|
1987
|
Netflix DVD
The book incorrectly lists the year as 1988.
|
2013.40
|
Skyfall
|
2012
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.41
|
Sleeping Dogs
|
1977
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.42
|
Some Came Running
|
1958
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.43
|
Summer with Monika (Sommaren med Monika)
|
1953
|
Netflix DVD, Hulu Plus
|
2013.44
|
A Throw of Dice (Prapancha Pash)
|
1929
|
Netflix DVD, Netflix Instant
|
2013.45
|
The Towering Inferno
|
1974
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.46
|
Toy Story 2
|
1999
|
Netflix DVD
See Changed section below.
|
2013.47
|
Toy Story 3
|
2010
|
Netflix DVD
See Changed section below.
|
2013.48
|
Wake in Fright
|
1971
|
Netflix DVD
|
2013.49
|
Wall Street
|
1987
|
Netflix DVD
|
Still no addition of the classic and iconic Harold Lloyd
film Safety Last. That’s the one that
surprised me the most. If it didn’t make
it this time it probably will never make the list. Do yourselves a favor and watch it anyway, if
you have not already seen it.
Films That Were Re-added:
Number
|
Title
|
Year
|
Can Be Seen/Comments
|
927
|
Boogie Nights
|
1997
|
Netflix DVD
Originally removed in 2011.
|
1000
|
Gangs of
|
2002
|
Netflix DVD
Originally removed in 2006.
|
1004
|
Russian Ark (Russkiy kovcheg)
|
2002
|
Netflix DVD
Originally removed in 2006.
|
That’s it? They
gutted the 2000s in the earlier editions of the books because they didn’t want
to have to change too many pages, so I was hoping they would return some of the
ones unjustly removed. I think most
people would agree Boogie Nights deserves to come back, but the other two? And where are any or all of Amelie, Hero,
Adaptation, The Barbarian Invasions, Children of Men, Volver, and The Wrestler?
Entries That Were
Changed:
893. Toy Story has been changed to the Toy Story
Trilogy. This is similar to when the
three Lord of the Rings movies were combined into a single entry in 2008 except
that Toy Story 2 and 3 have never been on the list. This results in two more movies being added,
but no net entry changes for them.
Films That Were Removed:
Nbr.
|
Title
|
Year
|
Comments
|
8
|
Way Down East
|
1920
|
Original list entry
|
25
|
Seven Chances
|
1925
|
Original list entry
|
53
|
Le Million (The Million)
|
1931
|
Original list entry
|
60
|
La Chienne (The Bitch)
|
1931
|
Original list entry
|
69
|
Me and My Gal
|
1932
|
Original list entry
|
85
|
Judge Priest
|
1934
|
Original list entry
|
100
|
Sabotage
|
1936
|
Original list entry
|
121
|
Babes in Arms
|
1939
|
Original list entry
|
137
|
Dance, Girl Dance
|
1940
|
Original list entry
|
161
|
I Walked with a Zombie
|
1943
|
Original list entry
|
175
|
Spellbound
|
1945
|
Original list entry
|
187
|
The Stranger
|
1946
|
Original list entry
|
199
|
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
|
1947
|
Original list entry
|
244
|
Angel Face
|
1952
|
Original list entry
|
249
|
The Big Sky
|
1952
|
Original list entry
|
268
|
Beat the Devil
|
1953
|
Original list entry
|
271
|
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
|
1954
|
Original list entry
|
273
|
Animal Farm
|
1954
|
Original list entry
|
295
|
The Man from
|
1955
|
Original list entry
|
307
|
The Man Who Knew Too Much
|
1956
|
Original list entry
|
360
|
The Young One (La joven)
|
1960
|
Original list entry
|
371
|
One-Eyed Jacks
|
1961
|
Original list entry
|
404
|
Winter Light (Nattvardsgasterna)
|
1963
|
Original list entry
|
462
|
Hombre
|
1967
|
Original list entry
|
615
|
1900 (Novecento)
|
1976
|
Original list entry
|
633
|
Five Deadly Venoms (Wu du)
|
1978
|
Original list entry
|
676
|
Three Brothers (Tre fratelli)
|
1981
|
Original list entry
|
699
|
Last
|
1983
|
Original list entry
|
701
|
Utu
|
1983
|
Original list entry
|
724
|
Official Story, The (La historia oficial)
|
1985
|
Original list entry
|
767
|
Housekeeping
|
1987
|
Original list entry
|
788
|
Landscape in the Mist (Topio stin omichli)
|
1988
|
Original list entry
|
794
|
Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes)
|
1988
|
Original list entry
|
797
|
Drowning By Numbers
|
1988
|
Added in 2005
|
810
|
Say Anything
|
1989
|
Original list entry
|
814
|
Reversal of Fortune
|
1990
|
Original list entry
|
816
|
Jacob’s Ladder
|
1990
|
Original list entry
|
832
|
Naked Lunch
|
1991
|
Original list entry
|
853
|
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
|
1992
|
Original list entry
|
890
|
Casino
|
1995
|
Original list entry
|
942
|
Pi
|
1998
|
Original list entry
|
982
|
Dancer in the Dark
|
2000
|
Original list entry
|
987
|
2001
|
Original list entry
|
|
1054
|
La Vie en Rose
|
2007
|
Added in 2008
|
1070
|
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
|
2008
|
Added in 2010
|
1089
|
True Grit
|
2010
|
Added in 2011
|
1095
|
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
|
2011
|
Added in 2012
|
1098
|
War Horse
|
2011
|
Added in 2012
|
1101
|
The Descendants
|
2011
|
Added in 2012
|
1102
|
Hugo
|
2011
|
Added in 2012
|
Honestly, other than Seven Chances, The Official Story, and
Hugo I don’t really mind seeing any of those fifty being removed.
Changes by Decade:
Note: the total of the Added column is two greater than the
total of the Removed column because of Toy Story 2 and 3.
Decade
|
Added
|
Removed
|
Net Change
|
1900s
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1910s
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
1920s
|
4
|
2
|
+2
|
1930s
|
4
|
6
|
-2
|
1940s
|
1
|
5
|
-4
|
1950s
|
4
|
7
|
-3
|
1960s
|
3
|
4
|
-1
|
1970s
|
7
|
2
|
+5
|
1980s
|
8
|
9
|
-1
|
1990s
|
3
|
6
|
-3
|
2000s
|
8
|
4
|
+4
|
2010s
|
10
|
5
|
+5
|
Totals
|
52
|
50
|
+2
|
Pairings in the
Additions and Removals:
From looking at what got added and what got removed it’s
easy to see that they approached many of them as “Let’s add Movie ABC and take
away Movie XYZ, which is roughly equivalent.”
Here are some examples:
Movie Added
|
Movie Removed
|
Pairing Relationship
|
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
|
Animal Farm
|
The only animated films added or removed.
|
The Eagle
|
Judge Priest
|
Exchanging famous personalities Will Rogers for Rudolph
Valentino.
|
The Lady Vanishes
|
Sabotage
|
1930s Hitchcock films
|
Summer with Monika
|
Winter Light
|
Both directed by Ingmar Bergman
|
The Man with the Golden Arm
|
Angel Face
|
Both directed by Otto Preminger
|
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
|
Big mid-1950s musicals
|
|
The Exiles
|
Hombre
|
Westerns about the Indian experience
|
The Exterminating Angel
|
The Young One
|
Both directed by Luis Bunuel
|
F for Fake
|
The Stranger
|
Both directed by Orson Welles
|
Local Hero
|
Housekeeping
|
Quirky mid-1980s movies
|
Dead Ringers
|
Naked Lunch
|
Both directed by David Cronenberg
|
Gangs of
|
Casino
|
Both directed by Martin Scorcese
|
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
|
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer
|
Self explanatory
|
Osama
|
Experiences of women in strongly Muslim countries
|
|
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
|
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
|
Recent documentaries
|
Field of Dreams
|
Say Anything
|
Popular late 1980s movies
|
The Draughtsman’s Contract
|
Drowning By Numbers
|
Both directed by Peter Greenaway
|
War Horse
|
Both directed by Steve Spielberg
|
|
1981-1983 3 added
|
1981-1983 3 removed
|
It’s as if they started doing
|
1987 1 added
|
1987 1 removed
|
the 1980s as if they were
|
1988 3 added
|
1988 3 removed
|
doing a smaller change then
|
1989 1 added
|
1989 1 removed
|
expanded to the entire book.
|
September 13, 2013 Edit: It's been pointed out to me by Peter Stanley, who maintains the 1,001 Movies list on Letterboxd (you can see it here), that there is a better connection between Local Hero and Housekeeping. Both were directed by Bill Forsyth. It turns out these two films are another of the director swaps that were done.
Most Represented
Directors Net Changes:
In my post where I speculated on what the 2013 edition might
change (you can read it here) I pointed out that a relatively few directors
represented a disproportionate number of the entries in the book. I suggested that dropping them down to more
reasonable levels like all the other directors would open up all kinds of
possibilities for other films to make it onto the list. Let’s see what happened to them:
Alfred Hitchcock (18): 3 removed, 1 added, net loss of two
films
Howard Hawks (11): 1 removed, 0 added, net loss of one film
Ingmar Bergman (10): 1 removed, 1 added, no net loss
Stanley Kubrick (10): 0 removed, 0 added, no net loss
Luis Bunuel (9): 1 removed, 1 added, no net loss
John Ford (9): 0 removed, 0 added, no net loss
John Huston (9): 1 removed, 0 added, net loss of one film
Martin Scorcese (9): 2 removed, 1 added, net loss of one
film
Steven Spielberg (9): 1 removed, 1 added, no net loss
Jean-Luc Godard (8): 0 removed, 0 added, no net loss
These ten directors represented over 100 films in the list
(102 to be exact). After the latest
edition with the changes up and down the entire list they now represent 97
films in the list – a whopping reduction of five whole movies. I hope the editors didn’t pull something from
such a strenuous restructuring.
That’s all for now.
I’m sure as I continue to sift through the changes I’ll notice other
things of interest, but I’m all done tonight.
Hardcover
You are awesome; I've spent most of the day looking for The Great White Silence, and you somehow have a link to it. I'm sure some of these will be on the Compendium soon enough, once we figure out how we're going to number everything, but having them already is nice to know. Uber thanks.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
DeleteThank you very much for the kind words. It has been a lot of work.
I just did the Compendium, using the temporary designations I have here. Once the numbering is figured out, they can be changed along with all the other entries that will also need to be changed. In the meantime, people going there will be able to get the links now. I'm in the process of updating the Books pages at the wiki now.
I honestly don't get what they're thinking sometimes. We've had two Aileen Wuornos documentaries, but never Monster.
ReplyDeleteThere are some bad pulls from the older stuff, too. I'm disappointed to see Angel Face and I Walked with a Zombie yanked out. If they needed a Val Lewton film out, I'd have knocked out The Seventh Victim. Five Deadly Venoms is a bad removal--the list is already short on kung fu action. And everyone in the world should bask in the awesomeness that is Marion Cottilard in La Vie en Rose.
I have to say it--I'm a little disheartened.
Very good point about Monster. I hadn't picked up on that.
DeleteI agree with you on the choice of Val Lewton films.
I thought Cottilard did a fantastic job in that film; it was the film itself that let me down some. It was so relentlessly focused on the bad stuff. The term "warts and all" is sometimes used to describe bios that don't hold back the bad stuff. Well, I felt this one was just "warts".
I'm sort of used to them pulling good movies, so that didn't affect me much. I'm more disheartened by the ones they added, and especially by the ones they re-added.
Agreed. My first re-add would be Amelie, followed by The Big Lebowski.
DeleteI have a feeling that this year, my "what they should add" post in December is going to be epic.
Leaving aside the most recent year, most of which I was expecting, the only ones of the 49 added that I felt really happy to see were Field of Dreams and the Toy Story sequels. Although why they included Field of Dreams appears to be strange. The review of it by the female European critic is laughable. She completely didn't get the movie. Apparently she feels its popularity stemmed from a desire to deal with the fallout from the Reagan administration. If I could have come up with 100 reasons people like this movie that still wouldn't have been one of the things I would have listed.
DeleteThere are some "fun" choices - Local Hero, Mary Poppins.
There were some others that fall into the "I'm not surprised" category - The Adventures of Prince Achmed, The Exterminating Angel, F for Fake, Oklahoma!, and Mrs. Miniver.
There are some "huh?" choices - The Towering Inferno, Wall Street, and RoboCop (although that's probably from Europeans' love of Verhoeven).
Of the rest, I'd never even heard of The Consequences of Love, The Devils, Diva, The Draughtsman's Contract, The Eagle, The Exiles, The Goddess, The Great White Silence, The Hired Hand, Limite, Peter Ibbetson, Sleeping Dogs, Some Came Running, Summer with Monika, A Throw of Dice, and Wake in Fright. That's 16 of the 49 - one third of them.
I've seen 21 of the 49 that were added, leaving 28 to once again complete the list.
Chip, thank you so much for (a) getting this info out and (b) your thoughtful analysis of the various changes to the List. It's much appreciated!
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, it's good to know that the list creator(s?) is willing to not just add a dozen movies from the past year and drop a dozen movies scattered across the previous century, but to do a full fifty-movie revision with a lot more older additions. But on the other hand, I'm kinda crushed because this is going to stomp my completion percentage on the all-time all-inclusive 1,152 film list, much more than just adding 10 or 11 movies would have. Of the 49 new movies I have seen Mary Poppins, RoboCop, the Toy Story sequels, and F&$% YEAH CABIN IN THE WOODS WHOOOO. But that leaves me with some serious catching up to do. Ah well, I have until I die, right?
As for the ones cut from the official list, Say Anything is a sentimental favorite of mine (one of a handful of movies I owned on VHS in high school) but I think Pi and True Grit are both legitimately worthy - maybe they'll be re-included someday.
- Sunny D
You're welcome. I appreciate the compliments.
DeleteI liked all three of those removed movies you mentioned. In fact, I liked a lot of the 50 they took away. It's just that I didn't consider many of them to be "must see"s or even ones that had something unique or special about them. That's what I meant by not being bothered by most of them being removed. I'm sort of used to them taking away movies I liked.
"this is going to stomp my completion percentage on the all-time all-inclusive 1,152 film list"
Well, I've seen 21 of the 49, so my completion percentage went from 100% to 97.57%. For me, the hit is more psychological than anything else. I watch all the Oscar nominated movies each year, so that always cuts down on the impact when the new additions are announced. As it turns out, I had already seen all eight of the 2012 films they added.
I don't know what kinds of movies you like, but among the ones I've seen that you haven't, I would recommend: Amour, Argo, Bowling for Columbine, Dead Ringers, Django Unchained, Field of Dreams, Les Miserables, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Local Hero, Mrs. Miniver, Oklahoma!, Skyfall, and Wall Street.
My Top recommendations would be, in order: Field of Dreams (5 stars), Django Unchained (4.5 stars), and Argo/Life of Pi (4 stars).
I totally take your point about the difference between "it's good and I'm sorry to see it go" and "it genuinely is MUST-SEE". Fair enough.
DeleteThanks for the recommendations! Django and Argo were both already close to the top of my Netflix queue before I read your post today. Life of Pi, I read the book and really liked it, so the movie seemed kind of ... superfluous? ... especially now that I can't see it on a big screen in 3-D.
Field of Dreams I'm frankly embarrassed to have never seen. I thought about putting it on my queue this spring (baseball season and all) and was surprised that it wasn't on the 1001 List, which caused me to hold off on it. No excuses now though!
- Sunny D
I've seen a much smaller percentage of the new additions, but I have seen a few you haven't. Here's my take on them:
DeleteArgo--I don't know if it's the best picture of 2012, but I think Ben Affleck was robbed by not getting a director nod.
The Cabin in the Woods--A fantastic example of a genre re-write. It's the film I'm happiest to see make it.
Dead Ringers--Damn creepy!
The Devils--The best word to describe this is blasphemous. It's unforgettable and might be genuinely great.
The Eagle--Low-grade Robin Hood.
Field of Dreams--Another film I'm so pleased to see make it.
RoboCop--I'm surprised, but I like it, so I don't mind rewatching it.
The Towering Inferno--It's going up on my site tonight. It's big and dumb, but it's a hell of a spectacle.
Toy Story 2 and 3--I'm surprised they took this long to make it.
Wall Street--I'm not surprised. It's the perfect Reagan-era film.