I am obsessed with lists. Movie lists, to be more specific. To be really precise, I am obsessed with completing movie-watching lists and seeing the bright green circle that appears on Letterboxd once you’ve watched every movie included in a given list. To be fair, I’ve only fully completed one, the AFI 100, with the help of its wonderful companion podcast, Unspooled. Whether or not my obsessession started there, I’m not sure, but it’s long since expanded well beyond the quaint boundaries of 100 American movies.

The IMDb Top 250, Oscar Best Picture Winners, Sight & Sound Greatest Films, 1001 Movies to See Before You Die, Letterboxd Top 250 Movies Directed By Women … the list (of lists) goes on and on, generating an insurmountable mountain of movies that I nonetheless continue to add to my ever-expanding watchlist.