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I’ve found myself with a tremendous amount of free time of late and I plan to take in art gallery and concert events in my city but my weekday evenings are generally open so I thought I’d start watching a new-to-me film every night. The effort is twofold - first, it occupies my time, but more importantly, I’d spent the past 20 years culturally isolating myself by stubbornly abstaining from partaking in every cultural and generational milestone of cinema that came along. I generally see one or two films a year and had actively avoided seeing all contemporary films from Star Wars to anything Spielberg produced onward. In the last year, I’ve shed my “me-vs-society” outlook and this new project is an effort to close that cultural gap.

Over the past year, I’ve compiled several lists of popular cinema. First, there was a list of existentialist plays and films, then anti-capitalist documentaries, then I assembled a stockpile of films inspired by the writings of Philip K Dick. That was followed by a Jim Henson complete filmography, the top 25 INTJ films, classics from the golden age of Hollywood, Cary Grant’s top 10 screwball comedies, and 75 of the all-time greatest science fiction films.

This week I’m adding to the roster all the generational milestones from E.T. and Jaws to the brat pack and everything that followed.

I began the project bringing myself up to date on the Muppet movies, and as I’d never seen a Pixar film I watched WALL-E and Up. Last night’s flick was Arrival. Tonight’s was Gremlins.

I’ve got a lot of work to do.

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