In an emulation of last year, in 2018 I’m setting myself the goal of watching not only a dozen Blindspot films, but also a decad WDYMYHS movies. Last year there was a reason for this (marking my tenth blogiversary); this year, I’m doing it just because it worked before.
In another similarity to last year, my Blindspot list is a ‘free choice’ selected from films I either already own or have ready access to (i.e. they’re available on Netflix / Amazon Prime / etc), while my WDYMYHS list is chosen by mixing together lists of must-see movies to find those that consensus says I should’ve seen.
Although this is a ‘free choice’ list, I did get a helping hand: I determined I wanted to include films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman, but how to choose which from their lengthy and acclaimed filmographies? So I turned to iCheckMovies to see which were on the most lists, had the most favourites, that kind of thing. That produced clear frontrunners for each director, and they’re the ones I went with.
Below are all 12 of my selections, in alphabetical order.
The 400 Blows
Attack the Block
Big Fish
Black Narcissus
The Hunt
Nausicaä of the
Valley of the Wind
Snowpiercer
Strangers on a Train
Suspiria
True Romance
The Wild Bunch
Wild Strawberries
Exciting observation: eight of them (aka two-thirds) are non-US productions. How cultured of me.
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