Total number of films I own on DVD and video:
Actual movies: probably somewhere around 15–20, most of which are videos I've had for years and almost never watch. And several more concert and music-video videos which I've had for even longer (a couple of The Cure, for instance, I've had since the eighth grade!). The only really "current" stuff I own are the three 4-disc extended-cut deluxe packages of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and also, not movies, but the 14-disc complete episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus. That is a sweet DVD item. One that Deidra and I have decided is a must-own is Napoleon Dynamite, so I'd really like to get that. We also eventually need to get the Star Wars trilogy DVD set, which I still have not even seen (but I plan to soon; after a first viewing of Episode III, which I still haven't seen yet: we need to get a babysitter and do that).

Last film I bought:
Hmmm... I received Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as a gift, so does that count? Last one I actually bought, well, I think perhaps I'd have to go back to about a year and a half ago when the extended version of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers came out, and that was on VHS, just before we got a DVD player! Gosh, we've only had a DVD player for a year and a half or so, and already I can't conceive of using VHS tapes for anything other than recording.

Last film I watched:
To Live, which follows the life of one family in China over a couple of decades, through the Maoist Revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, chronicling at a very human level their living through times of such upheaval. Very good movie, well-acted and directed, with lively characters that draw you into their lives. I always like Chinese-made films like that, in Chinese with subtitles, especially with historical perspective like that. Next to watch: Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas.

Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no particular order):
I'm with Chris in my initial reaction here: Five seems like a lot! I guess this meme was developed with "filmies" in mind. :-) But actually, come to think of it, it's not hard to think of five movies that are good enough to bear repeated watchings.

• Star Wars trilogy (Episodes IV–VI, naturally). Should need no elaboration.
• Lord of the Rings trilogy (Hey, this is turning out to be too easy. I've already got six movies down, strictly speaking.)
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off: John Hughes's pitch-perfect swan song of his 80s high-school dramas/comedies, this movie for me defines an era. I'm a "child of the 80s," and it gives me feelings of warmth and nostalgia in ways I could not hope to fully categorize. Each time I see it, I can't help but think of the first time I would-have saw it: I was ten years old, it was the summer of 1986. My family was visiting Dallas, and my uncle Richard and not-yet-aunt Tibbie took me and Tibbie's daughters, an 11-year-old Meg and 7-year-old Sara, to the movies. We were going to see Ferris Bueller, but about ten minutes into it, Richard and Tibbie decided it was too vulgar (it is PG-13, after all), so we walked out of the movie and over to the next theater, to see Space Camp instead! I ended up seeing Ferris on video about a year later.
• Heat: First off, Al Pacino vs. Robert De Niro—interested yet? This is just an extremely good movie, one which I've watched repeatedly (and in fact am due for one here soon; I think it's been a couple of years, in fact). It's a three-hour epic "Los Angeles Crime Drama" with intrigue, atmosphere, human drama, and visceral, kinetic action sequences. The characters are extremely well-drawn and that's what drives the story; the settings, the plot complexities, the action... all icing. This is a movie's movie, richly textured, a tour-de-force of director Michael Mann. I still can't understand why it wasn't even nominated for Best Picture for 1995.
• And how about an honorable mention for good old Aliens? I was kind of obsessed with this movie around ages 12 and 13. I actually read the novelization first, found it fascinating, then finally got to see it on video a couple of times. Then it aired on network TV, I taped it, and watched it probably dozens of times over the next few years. Memorized the dialogue, all that. High-production sci-fi action with just enough gore factor to latch a little morbid fascination onto without turning the stomach, it was just the thing for that young teen boy. It was my favored escapist-entertainment fare during the dark days of junior high. I haven't watched it in years, 'cause I guess I've felt I've had my lifetime's fill. Might be worth another viewing before too long here, though.

I hereby propagate this meme in the direction of...

• Matt, because he's kind of a movie buff, and needs to blog more! ;-)
• Meg, because since this is "filmy" it might fit in well with the art 'n' culture blog she and her husband do so ably. And they've been blogging about films (that's what you call it in the art world: a film, not a movie. ;-) ) lately.
• And, Amy (right back atcha) of ever so humble fame.