The Black List celebrates twenty years with 60 themed lists from filmmakers and film lovers • Journal • A Magazine • , Life in canada

The Black List’s call to put together personalized themed lists of twenty films will result in “1,200 movies as a sort of film school canon that friends of The Black List have recommended,” according to Hagen. Simply put: it’ll make finding a movie to watch tonight that much easier.

“I am not worried about people finding some deep cuts within these 20 for 20 lists,” she says. “Somebody made a list of films that have been watched fewer than 10,000 times based on data—talk about some real deep cuts!” Other favorite lists of Hagen’s include “exploring movie malls, dommy mommies, worm cinema, animal mascots I’d like to hug, body horror for the girlies… We’re really getting a slice of people’s emotional lives as it dovetails with movies. And I think that’s pretty special.”

As Hagen talks, a big smile breaks across Leonard’s face. “This is why, as absurd as some of those are, it is exactly why we all love movies,” he enthuses. “To be able to represent that love of movies in this weird, very specific way just feels very powerful, exciting and optimistic to me in a way that I don’t get to feel every day.”