DVDs weren't out yet, so please ignore my box set

[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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[julian]

22. This is a handy list, as I can use it as a Reminder for my own To Watch list. (Like, why *did* I never watch The Secret of Roan Inish? I should fix this.)

Unfortunately, the complete idiocy of the thing's search process means every time I try to get up the momentum to do this meme, I stall out again. Maybe I'll just do a Top 20 of each. Dunno.

[sovay]

22. This is a handy list, as I can use it as a Reminder for my own To Watch list. (Like, why *did* I never watch The Secret of Roan Inish? I should fix this.)

Cool! (I do recommend this course of action.)

Unfortunately, the complete idiocy of the thing's search process means every time I try to get up the momentum to do this meme, I stall out again. Maybe I'll just do a Top 20 of each. Dunno.

In both book and film lists, I ended up making a lot of the little tiles myself. A top twenty sounds like a fair compromise with the user interface to me.