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DVDs weren't out yet, so please ignore my box set
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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The Wizard of Oz
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
A Hard Day's Night
Dog Day Afternoon
Psycho
Frankenstein (1931)
Dracula (1931)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
Hatchet for the Honeymoon
Rosemary's Baby
The Stepford Wives
The Exorcist
Rock'n'Roll High School
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Kids Are Alright (1979)
A Clockwork Orange
Harold and Maude
Dial M for Murder
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
Quadrophenia
The Elephant Man
Mahler
Savage Messiah
The Devils
Blade Runner
Repo Man
I think Yellow Submarine is the first film I saw on the list and Repo Man the last (but the rest of the sequence is looser).
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That's a great list. I probably should have put The Rocky Horror Picture Show on mine.
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I forgot The Muppet Movie (1979) and it's in constant rotation in our household idiolect! Tonight: "Good grief, it's a running gag."
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