Continuing the conversation from yesterday, I love the fact that people have such different go-to movies. The movies listed by others are all films that I’ve seen and greatly admire (except for the french ones, which I hadn’t heard of), but most of them I am not sure I could watch over and over again.
I would think nothing of watching Blade Runner or Casablanca or Mary Poppins on an endless loop, but I don’t think I would be able to sit through It’s a Mad Mad Mad World too many times in any given decade. Which is not at all to say that my tastes are in any sense correct — only that they are my tastes.
How much, I wonder, can each of us be identified with our taste in movies? For example, given a group of people you know, and their respective list of go-to movies, would you be able to match each person to their particular list?
Or to put it another way, do we each have our own unique set of cinematic fingerprints?
Koyaanisqatsi.
The last time I saw it in a theatre was accompanied by a live performance with Phillip Glass’s orchestra. Amazing.