Let me be honest with you.
The book doesn't care if you have a job, children, or a need for sleep. It simply sits on your coffee table, judging your Netflix queue. 1001 movies you must see before you die book
That was three years ago. I have since accepted that I will likely die having seen only 600 of them. And you know what? I’m happier for it. Let me be honest with you
I tried the "completist" approach. I tried to start at the beginning. Do you know how many silent films are in that book? A lot. Do you know how long it took me to watch The Birth of a Nation (a technically brilliant, morally repugnant film that the book rightly includes but struggles to contextualize)? Too long. 1001 movies you must see before you die book