Parts of speech just out of reach

To everyone who might conceivably call or text me in the next few days: there's no point in trying until I get my phone fixed. A piece snapped out of the hinge when I opened it this morning and now it's impossible to open or close without it shutting down. I'm calling Verizon this afternoon to see about a replacement. I have no idea how this process will take, how annoying it will be, and whether it will be possible to transfer the small cache of text messages I keep for talismanic purposes. The last time a phone of mine died, I got a replacement from my brother and there wasn't anything on it I cared about saving. Also, I don't want a smartphone.

To distract myself, I am taking part in a silly quiz. I've seen this going around on several forms of social media:

Everyone should post their ten most CRUCIAL CRUCIAL CRUCIAL-ASS movies, like the movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnations (not necessarily your ten favorite movies but the ten movies that you, as a person existing currently, feel would help people get to know you) (they can change later on obviously).

I very much doubt that I can explain everything about myself in ten movies unless I make some kind of Edmund de Waal-like memoir out of them, and "crucial-ass" sounds more like something Catullus would say than me, but I haven't done one of these in a while. In more or less the order in which I thought of them—

Splash (1984)
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Pillow Book (1996)
Wittgenstein (1993)
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Metropolis (1927)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

Honorable mention: I, Claudius (1976). It's a miniseries, but it occupied a great deal of space in my brain when I was in high school. A bunch of other movies occurred to me after that, but I thought I should let the original list stand. You can ask if you're curious.

I might do this with other forms of media, just to see what happens. I'm pretty sure I have ten crucial-ass plays; I don't know if I could actually winnow music (albums, musicians, songs) down far enough. I am staying the hell away from literature because the last time I tried something like that, I got a fifty-book list.

Every morning I've been playing language games

The answer is: very annoying. I got bored on the recursive and infernal Verizon phone tree and made a list of plays—

The Lady's Not for Burning, Christopher Fry (1949)
A Dybbuk or Between Two Worlds, S. An-sky (1920)
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe (1604)
The Revenger's Tragedy, Thomas Middleton (1606)
Amadeus, Peter Shaffer (1979)
Breaking the Code, Hugh Whitemore (1986)
Bacchae (Βάκχαι), Euripides (405 BCE)
4.48 Psychosis, Sarah Kane (2000)
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare (1598/9)
The Big Broadcast of October 30, 1938, Rob Noyes, Neil Marsh & Alicia Goranson (2009)

I didn't include musicals or operas. Those could get a list of their own. Oh, God, I hope I won't have the time.