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Jay called excitedly this evening. "You're the only one who'll understand," she said. "I've made a run of thirty films." Starting with Strictly Ballroom she worked her way to Memento reeling off a list of twenty-eight other films, where any adjacent pair share an actor or director.

It's an idle activity we came up with in the summer: can you order your DVD collection by connecting artists? While I thought it an amusing diversion, J's taken somewhat more seriously and is evidently still losing sleep over how she'll fit the other eleven DVDs in.

I'd asked her to tell me what I could buy her for Christmas. The answer is now clear. "Memento's a real dead-end," she said, "and I've yet to find a home for Pretty Woman."

My task then, is to find films that can link these two while:

1. keeping an eye on the budget, and
2. selecting only movies Jay would be prepared to have in her collection.

I'm guessing The Matrix sits next to Memento, but after that I get lost. Of course an alternative would be to cruelly buy even more of a dead end. I see Russian Ark's out on DVD now.