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[sovay]

The hundred movies meme was even harder to assemble because I spent far more of my childhood and adolescence immersed in books than in movies and therefore many of the films on this list were not so much formative as illuminating once I finally started paying attention to cinema as an art form, and/or they wired themselves instantly into my brain and are quoted regularly to this day. A list of favorites might overlap significantly but not identically, I imagine tilting more heavily toward sff and noir. I feel it may be a much more mainstream list than my formative books, although still full of meaningful absences. (I sacrificed a number of classics as well as movies whose circumstances were potentially more important than their content, but just glitched on The Medium (1951) and Katerina Izmailova (1966), both of which I even own.) I find it very difficult to try to winnow accurately. I may just not be designed for this format of meme.

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[sovay]

I only matched 25, but most of those would be on my list. I am proud to have turned you on to a few.

And I am glad you did. What were the major overlaps?

As I recall, I shared Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia and The Cuckoo with you.

You did! And Alex-who-is-not-on-DW made me an icon of Viktor Bychkov as Ivan, forever loved and remembered as Psholtii. (Icon employed here without its usual meanings.)

[nineweaving]

What were the major overlaps?

Singin’ in the Rain
The Wizard of Oz
Casablanca
Labyrinth
The Seventh Seal
Atanarjuat : The Fast Runner
Master and Commander
The Cuckoo
I Capture the Castle
Russian Ark
A Canterbury Tale
The Wicker Man
Pygmalion
Dreamchild
Hamlet
Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia
Little Dorrit
Wittgenstein
Penda’s Fen
Persuasion
A Month in the Country

To which I'd add:

Prospero's Books
Next: The Infinite Variety Show
Orlando
Tampopo
The Critic (nicked from the BBC)
Topsy-Turvy
I Know Where I'm Going
Withnail & I
Some Like It Hot
Local Hero
Galaxy Quest ...

And then I'd go on adding and subtracting for ages. Mind you, the only one I'd call formative is The Wizard of Oz.


If This Goes On, I may have to add The Death of Stalin.

Nine

[sovay]

To which I'd add

Both Prospero's Books and Orlando were under consideration, but got edged out. Some Like It Hot probably should have been on there, but I don't know what I'd cut for it! It turns out I care about a lot more than a hundred movies.

If This Goes On, I may have to add The Death of Stalin.

Understood.