This may be the Ultimate Movie List.
This might be the ultimate movie list. It’s a primer for people who may want help in their quest to become more well-rounded film aficionados – or an argument-starter for those like myself who spend a lot of time in the dark staring at a big screen.
Either way, it’s highly subjective, a quasi-professorial exercise in assertive opinion. It’s not a list of the greatest films ever made, or even my personal favorites, although it inevitably includes some of them, being filtered through my experience as a movie lover looking backward and forward from my place in the “Star Wars” generation. It’s intended to cover many cinematic bases, and is broken down by category, loose genres that may seem like hair-splitting or broad classification, but seem right and appropriate.
There’s a chance you’ ve seen some or a lot of these. (That’s why I’ ve included a few additional films in each category, for further exploration.) But all of them are worth seeing again – and some of them again and again and again.
