I think the 4:30 Movie week long series - Japanese monster movies, WWII week, etc - is where I learned there was such a thing as curating.

I mostly remember this as where I learned to appreciate black & white Hollywood movies from the 30s and 40s, largely for their endless stock of tough-talking, sharp-witted dames.

My pals and I would stay up late (on either Friday or Saturday?) for the Channel 5 movie, which came a built-in aura of "quality" and served as a kind of gateway art-house drug. I distinctly recall two life (or at least 10-year-old mind) altering nights with the Channel 5 Late Movie, one spent with 2001, the other with a moderately edited cut of Straw Dogs. No wonder my cohort of boys grew up a little bent!