To have and to hold every film that guided your artistic and emotional maturation, through adolescence and beyond, is something many will find irresistible.
What was formerly part of a romanticised past, glimpsed infrequently on late-night TV, has become urgently present.
What this means, in cultural terms, is that film now takes its place beside literature, music and visual imagery as an art that can be owned and bookmarked.
