Hard to find films from "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die"

Submitted by normalsgirl on Thu, 09/22/2005 - 02:56
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  1. La Roue (The Wheel) (Abel Gance, 1923)
  2. Ye ban ge sheng [aka Midnight Song, aka Song of Midnight] (Weibang Ma-Xu, 1937)
  3. Zangiku Monogatari (Story of the Late Chrysanthemums; Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
  4. Make Way For Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937)
  5. Big Carnival (aka Ace in the Hole; Billy Wilder, 1951)
  6. Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer (Thorold Dickinson, 1955)
  7. The Phenix City Story (Phil Karlson, 1955)
  8. Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, 1956)
  9. Hanyo (The Housemaid; Ki-young Kim, 1960)
  10. Chronique D'Un Ete (Chronicle of a Summer; Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch, 1961)
  11. O Pagador de Promessas (Keeper of Promises) (Anselmo Duarte, 1962)
  12. Heaven and Earth Magic (Harry Smith, 1962) [available at Facets]
  13. Blonde Cobra (Ken Jacobs, 1963) [Available at Electronic Arts Intermix]
  14. The Cool World (Shirley Clarke, 1963)
  15. Flaming Creatures (Jack Smith, 1963)
  16. Vidas Secas [Barren Lives] (Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 1963)
  17. Vinyl (Andy Warhol, 1965) [at XPloited Cinema]
  18. Subarnarekha (Golden River) (Ritwik Ghatak, 1965)
  19. De Mann Die Zijn Haar Kort Liet Knippen (The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short) (André Delvaux, 1965)
  20. Chimes at Midnight (Orson Welles, 1965) [at XPloited]
  21. Hold Me While I'm Naked (George Kuchar, 1966)Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967)
  22. Marketa Lazarova (Frantisek Vlácil, 1967)
  23. High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1969)
  24. El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970) [available at 5minutesonline]
  25. Ucho (The Ear) (Karel Kachyna, 1970)
  26. Meg Ker A Nep (Red Psalm) (Miklos Jancso, 1971)
  27. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles [available at 5minutesonline] (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
  28. Deewaar (The Wall) (Yash Chopra, 1975) [avail at Play.com and at kelkoo]
  29. India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975)
  30. Maynila: Sa Mga Kuko Ng Liwanag (Manila in the Claws of Brightness) (Lino Brocka, 1975)
  31. Last Chants For A Slow Dance (Jon Jost, 1977) [avail at Facets]
  32. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977)
  33. Zu Fruh, Zu Spat (Too Early, Too Late) (Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, 1981)
  34. Une Histoire de Vent (Joris Ivens, 1988)
  35. The Asthenic Syndrome (Kira Muratova, 1989)
  36. Guling Jie Shaonian Sha Ren Shijian (A Brighter Summer Day) (Edward Yang, 1991)
  37. Satantango (Bela Tarr, 1994)
  38. Deseret (James Benning, 1995)
Author Comments: 

I haven't looked through the whole book, so I'm sure there are more to add, so please make suggestions everyone.

Also, this obviously depends a great deal on where one lives, so some of these films that are hard to find for me in Australia may not be so hard to find for people in the US or Europe or wherever, and vice versa. Some of these films (like "Wavelength") have never been and probably never will be released on video or DVD or anything, they're films that can only be experienced on film, and so in order to see it one has to hope that an art-house cinema nearby shows it.