{"id":23686,"date":"2021-04-23T22:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=23686"},"modified":"2021-04-23T22:17:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:17:49","slug":"my-1001-favourite-films-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=23686","title":{"rendered":"My 1001 Favourite Films of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=2648\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfilm.jpg\" alt=\"tagfilm\" width=\"600\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfilm.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tagfilm-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?attachment_id=23687\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23687\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23687\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1001thumb.jpg\" alt=\"1001thumb\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1001thumb.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1001thumb-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> like movies a lot. \u00a0I also admire the writings and opinions of film creators and film critics a lot. \u00a0Roger Ebert reviewed over 10,000 films in his lifetime. \u00a0It\u2019s not a stretch to assume he liked at least 10% of those films and could easily compile a list of his favourite 1,001 movies.<\/p>\n<p>Someone else who decided to do just that was the British film maker\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edgar_Wright\">Edgar Wright<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Wright made his name with the popular British comedy series\u00a0<em>Spaced<\/em>\u00a0with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. \u00a0He has since gone on to make many beloved comedies including\u00a0<em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Hot Fuzz<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, Edgar Wright compiled a list of his\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mubi.com\/lists\/edgar-wrights-favorite-movies\">1000 favourite films<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0using the movie subscription service MUBI. \u00a0After browsing through it and mentally checking off the films I had seen, it got me thinking about my own list.<\/p>\n<p>My first crack at putting together a similar list back in 2016 ended at<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=19994\"> 501<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 At the time I said &#8220;In a year or two, I think I\u2019ll get around to creating a revised list of 1,001 favourite films.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It ended up taking five more years but I&#8217;ve got there.\u00a0 In that time I&#8217;ve managed to watch a ton more Ford, Kurosawa, Ozu, Mann, noir, musicals and silent films.\u00a0 My &#8220;gaps&#8221; continue to be Seventies classics, British classics, Hammer horror and international cinema.\u00a0 One day I&#8217;ll get there.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, for those of you are curious and have a lot of spare time, here it is:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mubi.com\/lists\/my-1001-favourite-movies-of-all-time\">EDO&#8217;S 1001 FAVOURITE MOVIES OF ALL TIME<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rated my one thousand and one favourite movies in a list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":23687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23689,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23686\/revisions\/23689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}