Every week, Liz goes to Scarecrow Video and grabs a bunch of movies for me at random off my Letterboxd watchlist. But as I power through movies week after week, year after year, that watchlist is dwindling... especially for English-language films I can watch while doing other stuff. So she's started throwing in the occasional movie that catches her eye from one of Scarecrow's many exciting curated sections. At the same time, I have absolutely no memory for what I put on my watchlist and why. So every time I watch a movie now, it's a fun game for me to try to figure out if someone recommended it, if I saw someone else on Letterboxd enjoy it, or if Liz grabbed it sight-unseen.
points in favor of a film being a Liz Special:
- it's gay (Liz often pulls from queer film rec shelves)
- it's obscure (less likely to be recommended to me)
- it's bad (my friends have great taste but random Scarecrow shelves can be pretty hit-or-miss)
