My 100 Most Satisfying, Highest Quality, Entertaining/Enlightening/Edifying Film-Watching Experiences
By: T.J. Royal
I’m throwing myself in.
This cluster of films are the ones I feel at the given moment (July 2011) have added to my life as a whole, either as pure exhilaration entertainment, somber reflection on loss and sacrifice, what it is to be human and what it’s worth to live a life a certain way.
All I hope to do is enliven and open a door to a viewing of these movies. The quality (and endearment) of each of them for me is as varied as the reasons each movie presents as its quality. These films range from ethereal and ghostly reflections on loss and the meaning of moving forward in a bruised life (Sansho The Bailiff and Ugetsu), to “modern” CGI-assisted epics that aim at faithful and creative adaptation of fantasy literature and won my affection (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers), to crime dramas that shocked and had characters who earned my sympathy in equal measure (Blackmail, Peeping Tom and M), to frontier dramas, aka “Westerns,” (Once Upon A Time In The West, Unforgiven), war (All Quiet On The Western Front, Paths of Glory), straight action (Kill Bill Vol. 1), to……….well, view on.
A list that I can guarantee is going to be shuffled, re-arranged, re-composed and reconfigured as long as it’s available to be seen on this site. It’s going to be painful, PAINFUL, making those adjustments.
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01Fritz Lang
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02Alfred Hitchcock
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03Lewis Milestone
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04James Whale
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05James Whale
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06William Cottrell
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07Sergio Leone
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08Clint Eastwood
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09Kenji Mizoguchi
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10Kenji Mizoguchi
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11Georg Wilhelm Pabst
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12Stanley Kubrick
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13Stanley Kubrick
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14Tobe Hooper
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15Peter Jackson
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16George A. Romero
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17Katsuhiro Ôtomo
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18Hayao Miyazaki
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19Victor Fleming
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20Orson Welles
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21Jean Renoir
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22Steven Spielberg
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23Robert Rossen
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24Arthur Penn
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25Luis Buñuel
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26David Lynch
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27Gillo Pontecorvo
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28Quentin Tarantino
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29Alejandro Amenábar
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30Taylor Hackford
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31John Frankenheimer
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32Michael Powell
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33Orson Welles
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34Gregory La Cava
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35Luchino Visconti
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36Woody Allen
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37James Algar
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38Martin Scorsese
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39Samuel Fuller
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40Park Chan-wook
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41Billy Wilder
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42Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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43Miloš Forman
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44Steven Soderbergh
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45Michael Mann
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46John Sayles
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47Krzysztof Kieślowski
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48Gary Trousdale
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49Mike Leigh
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50Ethan Coen
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51Roman Polanski
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52Noah Baumbach
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53Alfred Hitchcock
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54Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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55Billy Wilder
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56John Huston
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57Michael Curtiz
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58Ingmar Bergman
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59Stanley Kubrick
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60Spike Jonze
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61Steve James
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62Leo McCarey
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63Charlie Chaplin
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64Charlie Chaplin
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65Alfred Hitchcock
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66Henry Alex Rubin
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67Werner Herzog
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68Sidney Lumet
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69Martin Scorsese
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70Andrew Stanton
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71Richard Linklater
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72Wes Anderson
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73Mikio Naruse
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74Pedro Almodóvar
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75John Sayles
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76Fernando Meirelles
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77John Woo
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78Ang Lee
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79Merian C. Cooper
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80Darren Aronofsky
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81Christopher Nolan
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82Brad Bird
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83Jim Jarmusch
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84Robert Wise
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85John Carpenter
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86Steven Spielberg
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87Irvin Kershner
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88Martin Campbell
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89James Mangold
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90Sam Raimi
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91F. Gary Gray
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92Sam Raimi
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93Kevin Smith
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94Rupert Julian
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95Akira Kurosawa
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96Keisuke Kinoshita
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97Seth Gordon
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98Stanley Kubrick
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99Orson Welles
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100Stephen Chow