1001 Films To See Before You Die
I just bought this book written a few years ago. It's a great book but to me more notable for it omissions than some of the entries.
Not enough British films of the sixties. The Pumpkin Eater, Billy Liar, Look Back In Anger, This Sporting Life, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold are missing and many others from this era. lie How can you leave any of these out.
The two great Rock Hudson and Doris day comedies Pillow talk and Lover Come Back didn't make the list. Pillow talk is the only comedy aside from Annie hall to win a best screenplay oscar.
There are some unusually ordinary films of the past twenty years there like The English Patient which Bruce Beresford described as like a three hour soap advertisement. As well as When Harry Met Sally, Top Gun and Philadelphia made it.
Paul Newman made it for Hombre but not for The Verdict. (Seriously)
Among my other favourite films which are missing are The World According to Garp, Woody Allen's Bananas, two William Holden films Stalag 17 and Picnic, and from Australia no Bruce Beresford films Really. Moneymovers, The Club, Don's Party. These are films people should see.
