Making Time For Cinema Classics

Growing up with Peruvian parents in the U.S., I was always more in tune with Latino pop culture than general American culture. I didn’t even know who The Beatles were, or realize getting together to watch the Super Bowl was a “thing” until I was 13.

My parents were also strict. Going to the movies with a group of friends, or just going to a friend’s house to hang out was a laughable concept:

“What are you going to do? Just watch a movie? No homework? That’s not a reason. Go study or do something useful.”

Furthermore, I was, and continue to be a book nerd. A lot of time growing up was spent reading for fun. I’m that person who has very strong opinions about whether the book was better than the movie (spoiler alert: it usually is).

So with that, you can imagine that there are serious gaps in my knowledge of movie classics. But that’s what we’re here to do: a quest to discover films, expand our pop culture knowledge, and be in on movie references. It’s time to fill in the gaps. Here we go.

With Brand New Eyes,

Delia

Originally published at medium.com on December 15, 2015.