Movie suggestions

[bif]

We're starting a "Movie Night" with friends of ours. The host couple provides the movie. So I'm opening this up to suggestions to the best movies, period. Obviously have to be on DVD or VHS. We're planning on meeting once a week. Popcorn, wine & beer. No kids. Let me have your best suggestions. I'll probabgly give this a couple of kicks.

[XemaSab]

1. O Brother Where Art Thou.

Office Space.

Sneakers.

[bif]

2. Saw it.

We want to see stuff nobody has seen. Office Space is a tv show. Maybe we need to tp into NetFlix

[bif]

3. Saw it.

We want to see stuff nobody has seen. Office Space is a tv show. Maybe we need to tp into NetFlix

[driver8]

13. Office Space is also a movie. A very funny movie, I might add...

[XemaSab]

17. Yeah.

:D

[Scarlett17]

22. "The Office" is a TV show. "Office Space" is a hilarious movie.

They are totally unrelated. Personally, I much prefer "Office Space". Anybody that has spent anytime slaving under the fluorescents will appreciate it. Very quotable. Have you seen my stapler?

[bif]

4. Self Delete

[edwin]

5. Elizabethtown

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Donnie Darko
Big Fish
Little Miss Sunshine

:shrug:

[Lautremont]

6. Le Samourai

Jules and Jim
The Yakuza (just got released on DVD - great movie, watched it last night)
Mr. Majestyk
Charley Varrick
Touch of Evil
A Bucket of Blood (the one starring Dick Miller)
I Walked With A Zombie (not cheesy - much better than it sounds, and a real crowd pleaser)
Ed Wood
The Brood
Band of Outsiders
Matango (Japanese horror movie from the early 60s - also new to DVD, also great)
Bullitt
The Saddest Music in the World
Logan's Run
The Gauntlet
Big Wednesday
Goin' All The Way

Trust me on these. They're all gold.

[bif]

9. Nice listt

I'm gonna print this out. I loved "Saddest Music.

[Lautremont]

11. Did you watch the "making of" documentary on the disc?

If so, I'd be curious to hear what you thought of it.

[bif]

21. Actually I saw it in the theatre

[Drum]

7. Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100998/

[jpgray]

8. Clouzot's Les Diabolique

Hands down the best thriller ever. Better even than Hitchcock's best.

[opiate69]

10. If you don't mind subtitles...

"Killing Words" (Palabras encadenadas)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339489/

[driver8]

12. "The Commitments"!!! You will love it!

One of my favorite movies, ever!

(Heavy Irish accents by many characters so listen carefully!!)

[bif]

14. One of MY faves!

[dysfunctional press]

15. amelie is a fun watch.

nt

[begin_within]

16. Here's my list...

The 10 must-see films:

"Tokyo Story" (1953) A universal story about family relationships and respect for the elderly that is just as pertinent today, and in any country, as it was in Japan in the 1950s. This film may change your attitude about your parents.

"Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba)" (1964) My choice for the best cinematography of all time. The camera floats effortlessly around the scenes and captures life in Cuba just before Castro's revolution - and illustrates why the revolution was necessary.

"Au Hasard, Balthazar" (1966) Enigmatic parable about the life of a mistreated donkey - is it a Christ-like symbol, or what? You decide. A depressing film, but extraordinarily well-made, and with careful interpretation, can change your outlook on life.

"Salt of the Earth" (1954) Re-creation of a true story about a strike at a zinc mine in New Mexico. This film is in desperate need of a remake with full production values.

"Psycho" (1960) One of those rare movies where everything comes together: the sleazy, run-down atmosphere, the dry, witty script full of black humor, the brilliant direction, camera angles and editing, the superb acting, and of course the unforgettable background music.

"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (1962) A macabre comedy-thriller about two sisters in a large house together, one crippled physically and the other mentally. Bette Davis turns in the performance of her career.

"2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Landmark science-fiction film that easily surpasses modern-day sci-fi in terms of intellectual challenge. Ponderous and slow-moving, it bores young moviegoers raised on the frenetic action of video games. But it dares to ask the big questions and leaves it up to the viewer to come up with most of the answers. The only sci-fi film to even approach this in quality is "Contact" (1997)

"Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" (1965) The best action-adventure movie, even with a shoestring budget. Memorable characters, a sassy script loaded with double-entendres and thrilling action all add up to a roller coaster of a movie.

"Five Easy Pieces" (1970) A great character study, and Jack Nicholson's finest hour, in my opinion.

"El Norte" (1983) The best film ever about the topic of immigration.

Also these are essential films:

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
Casablanca (1942)
It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Bicycle Thief (1949)
Los Olvidados (1950)
Rashomon (1950)
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
High Noon (1952)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Glen or Glenda (1953)
The Yearling (1954)
The Seven Samurai (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
East of Eden (1955)
A Man Escaped (1956)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1957)
Vertigo (1958)
Pickpocket (1959)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Lilies of the Field (1965)
To Sir, With Love (1965)
Ship of Fools (1965)
The Loved One (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (1966)
Born Free (1966)
The Graduate (1967)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Harold and Maude (1970)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
Chinatown (1974)
The Stunt Man (1978)
Life of Brian (1979)
E.T. The Extraterrestrial (1982)
L'Argent (1983)
Dark Habits (1983)
Ed Wood (1994)
Contact (1997)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Daughter from Danang (2002)
March of the Penguins (2005)

[Heidi]

18. "Sir No Sir!"

12-minute trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDk6Qal2DCI

http://www.sirnosir.com/

[LSK]

19. Bob Roberts

[auntAgonist]

20. The Guardian: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward

A really good movie imho.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406816/

The US Coast Guard version of "Top Gun" with a little "An Officer and A Gentleman" thrown in: an aging USCG rescue swimmer's team is killed in a horrific rescue mission. Immediately prior to this terrible event, his wife also announced that she cannot take anymore. His first love is always the rescue mission. This leaves him an obviously emotional wreck. His commender gives him a choice - quit or take a position as an instructor at the USCG training facility in Louisiana. Reluctantly he takes the position. Moving into the school, he immediately increases the 18 week curriculum that routinely fails half of the people that attend. Here he meets a young man with unlimited potential, but with some secret that seems to hold him back as a team player. Delving into his past, links are found that make him a psychic twin to the older man. Thrown into the midst of the story is a romance with a local girl. Rescue missions punctuate the beginning and end of the story with the training sessions the center of the film.

[Scarlett17]

23. The Usual Suspects

[taterguy]

24. Junebug

But only if you like an interesting story and great acting performances. Will be glad to tell you more about it if you're interested. It did make Kevin Smith and Roger Ebert's Best Movies of 2005 lists.

[unpossibles]

25. depends on your mood

one of my favorite winter escapist movies is Mediterraneo - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102426/
very fun, sometimes serious, and makes you forget the snow outside

Also like Night On Earth a lot - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102536/
5 short stories of taxi drivers around the world with a Tom Waits soundtrack. Ranges from hilarious to sobering, but all are great.

If you like horror, check out Sleepless, which is a later movie by Dario Argento, famed Italian horror director. Or Sante Sangre if you can find a copy, but that one is a bit stranger.

I also enjoy:
12 Monkeys
28 Days Later
Absolute Beginners
Adaptation
African Queen
Alien
Amelie
Bad Education
Batman (the Tim Burton ones)
Batman Begins
La Belle Epoque
The Big Boss
Brazil
Chinese Connection
City of Lost Children
The Dark Crystal
Dawn of the Dead (the old one)
Delicatessen
Deliverance
Don Juan Demarco
Donnie Darko
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Dune
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood
The Emerald Forest
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Europa Europa
Excalibur
Fear & Loathing
Fight Club
Finding Neverland
From Hell
Garden State
The Godfather
Hedwig & The Angry Inch
Highlander (the first one only - There should have been only one)
Jacob's Ladder
The Labyrinth
Legend
Like Water For Chocolate
Mediterraneo
Mullholland Dr.
Non Ho Sonno (Sleepless)
Orgazmo
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Requiem For A Dream
Return of the Dragon
Shaun of the Dead
Shortbus
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Suspiria
Team America (Fuck Yeah!)
Tenebrae
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
Time Bandits
V For Vendetta
Watership Down
What Dreams May Come
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

I know that list is all over the place, and that I probably forgot some, but it depends on your mood and the tastes of you and your guests.