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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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Nice! I don't know if I knew that. Thank you for telling me.
Happy to be reminded of Darby O’Gill! I chose that off the rack at the DVD store to watch on my birthday when I was about twelve - I think for no other reason than that I liked leprechauns.
I saw it for the first time somewhere between the ages of eight and ten and then did not watch it again until my junior year of college, at which point it became an amazing exercise in details accurately remembered across decades and details which had not stuck with me at all. My brother had remembered the banshee; I had remembered the drinking contest and the death-coach and the loophole of the last wish. It was such a folktale, its strangeness as a Disney movie hadn't registered with me at all. I should see it again.
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