====== Movies ======

I (used?) to love watching movies. At some point, I need to settle on a Top list. For the moment, I will add items to this list when I remember. I will shuffle the list when I feel like it. 

There is no real logic to the ranking. It is based simply on //feeling// rather than any specific criteria. There is a strong preference for movies of my era (1980s-2000s); again, this is not out of a formal criteria of "movie greatness", since there are certainly great movies of many eras.

I think for the most part, the ranking is based on 'watchability and re-watchability'. So I would not include movies that I find particularly difficult to rewatch (e.g. Requiem for a Dream). 

  - Risky Business (1983): potentially my all-time favourite movie; must be watched with the alternative ending; director never made another movie.
  - Lost in Translation (2003)
  - Only Yesterday (1991)
  - The Up Series (1964-) 
  - Before Sunrise, After Sunset, Before Midnight trilogy (1995-2013)
  - Contact (1997): as a young scientist, I loved this movie. 
  - Rocky (1976)
  - Memento (2001)
  - Lord of the Rings trilogy
  - Oldboy (2003)
  - Magnolia (1999)
  - Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
  - Top Gun (1986) and Maverick (2022)
  - Cast Away (2000): a movie about living with one-self; survival; re-discovery