The Black List and Letterboxd lists share common goals: to champion film discoverability, to democratize the cinema canon and to encourage us to keep being our authentic selves. It’s only natural, then, that we team up for the screenwriting platform’s new initiative, 20 for 20, which celebrates twenty years of The Black List by collating themed twenty-picture lists from 60 filmmakers and film lovers alike—launching today with Judd Apatow’s twenty most rewatched movies, hitting a range from James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News to Boaz Yakin’s Fresh.

This partnership “comes down to the love of four things,” according to Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List. “Love of lists, obviously. Love of movies. Love of community and love of Letterboxd, frankly… There’s just something fundamentally special when people say, ‘Here are things that I love. I’d like to give them to you.’ If we can do that in aggregate and at scale, I think something special has the potential to happen, and Letterboxd is the perfect home for that.”

As a refresher: The Black List is an online platform where both aspiring and established writers can showcase their unproduced screenplays for industry professionals, and receive feedback and evaluations from vetted readers. “Our North Star is identifying and celebrating great writing,” Leonard explains. Check out their Letterboxd HQ page to see their definitive list of the more than 500 films produced from Black List-selected scripts to date.

Leonard continues: “Our hope and our goal is to be the marketplace and the connective tissue between those two communities [screenwriters and the film industry] and make it easier and more efficient for everyone to find what they’re looking for. Which should mean that people making movies can spend more time making them instead of finding the things that they may be excited about making.”

Same goes for writers. Constantly pitching your screenplay to studios in this late-capitalist hellscape can suck the creative juices right out of your brain. That’s where The Black List comes in, though the team is careful not to take too much credit: “We didn’t make those movies, we didn’t produce them, we didn’t direct them, we didn’t gaff them, we didn’t do craft services,” says Leonard. “But we did build a pretty effective metal detector that finds needles in a haystack, script-wise.”

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 Letterboxd 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.”