Winner gets to come over and watch it with me.

The Searchers. The best movie The Duke ever made.

The Prestige is a very good effort (and easily found) by the brilliant Christopher Nolan. A little sombre, but gorgeously shot. Not as good as Memento, though.

Tsotsi is a stunning film; unmissable IMO, but hardly light entertainment.

The Proposition is a masterpiece, and brilliantly written by Nick Cave.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is amazing, and superbly crafted.

I should add that The Searchers is not your typical John Wayne fare. The Duke's character is extremely morally ambiguous, which was rare for him (although he's still a total badass) and it's one hell of an adventure tale.

The problem with this is that we don't know what you have or haven't seen. But to start:

If you haven't seen "Lost in Translation," you need to. It's pretty, and it's funny, and it's sad. It's like "Roman Holiday" set in Tokyo, minus the princess and minus the reporter. So it's really not like "Roman Holiday." Also, if you haven't seen "Roman Holiday," you have to. But "Lost in Translation" has Bill Murray, which makes it a must-see on its own.

Actually, sticking with old movies for a moment, you've got to see "His Girl Friday" with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant. It's full of fast talking and fast action, by which I mean everything happens very quickly. Movie about an ace reporter (Russell) who decided to get married and quit her job, much to the chagrin of her editor (Grant). They talk so fast you'll have to watch it twice in a row to get everything. Maybe three times. You'll definitely get your money's worth.

Lighter? Try "Pillow Talk," with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Not a musical, though there are a few songs. Fluffy (no pun intended) romantic comedy about an interior designer (Day) and a cad (Hudson, of course) who share a party line. Kind of sophisticated for its day, from a sexual and plain old moral point of view.

Non-fiction? "Don't Look Back," a documentary about Dylan's last acoustic tour in 1965. It's really funny, first of all, and it's engaging, and Allen Ginsberg makes a brief appearance in the first scene. (Later, as well.) I've never been a huge Dylan fan, but this film made me love his music. It's a good portrait of life on the road and of this 24-year-old guy who's got all the pressure of being "the voice of a generation" falling down on his shoulders. You need to watch this twice in a row, also, if only because your second take on Dylan's behavior will be quite different from your first. Don't watch with commentary on; it's super-annoying.

I own all these, so I'll take a rain check on coming to watch with you.

I purposefully left out what I've seen and like, brina. I want to know what you guys want me to see. I can filter out the ones I've seen. :)

A Fistful Of Dynamite This was Sergio Leone's followup to The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly, and is an AMAZING movie- lots of drama, lots of suspense, lots of great explosions (one of the characters is an explosives expert). It got very little notice in the U.S. on its original release, being overshadowed by TG, TB, & TU and then the later Once Upon A Time In The West (Leone's masterpiece), but the complete restored version is out on DVD now, and will make your weekend complete.

Not actively violent but with a high grue factor for television, Prime Suspect, series one, makes the CSI franchise look like an after-school special. Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren) manages to be commanding and in control, yet touchingly uncertain around the edges. Plus, she's Helen Mirren, so, y'know, rowrrrrrrrrrrr!

(bonus rowrrrrrr: Zoe Wanamaker!)

28 Days Later - Zombies + Plot + Funny + Scary!

The Squid & The Whale - Dark, Mean, family Drama - two boys coming of age - with a Point Perfect Ending. Plus - Laura Linney!

Y Tu Mama Tambien - HOT. Don't feel guilty, it's a Foreign Film. Classy!

Molly: An American Girl. It's much better than Samantha: An American Girl, and you can watch it with Hunter.

"His Girl Friday" is the pinnacle of the genre. ******

True. His Girl Friday is the screwiest of the screwball comedies.

A classic you think you know but have never actually seen all the way through?
Cassablanca
A Night At The Opera
The Third Man
The Apartment
Breakfast At Tiffany's
The Guns Of Navarone
Blazing Saddles

Here Comes Mr. Jordan
L'Âge d'or
The Wages of Fear

They remade Mr. Jordan in the 70's with Beatty and called it Heaven Can Wait, which doesn't hold a candle to the original. Claude Rains plays Mr. Jordan. This is the most charming movie I've seen; as a matter of fact, while watching it for the first time, I thought, "Oh, how charming," about every five minutes.

Luis Buñuel teamed up with Salvador Dalí again to make L'Âge d'or; you might think, Oh, this is gonna be more freaky plotless surrealism like Un Chien Andalou, right? Well, you'd be half-right. There is a plot in this one, along with a string of unbelievably funny sight-gags, and a tour de force performance by Gaston Modot.

The Wages of Fear aka Le Salaire de la peur is a gripping thriller: four desperate men are hired to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine deep into the South American jungle to a remote oil field. Harrowing and top notch.

We recently watched Rashomon, which is one of Kurasawas shortest films, I believe. From wikipedia: "The film has an unusual narrative structure that reflects the impossibility of obtaining the truth about an event when there are conflicting witness accounts." Also, there is a samurai, his lady, and a bandit.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. I know it's available on Netflix because The Dude and I just returned it. A classic in surrealist cinema, it's a very charming deconstruction of economic and cultural authorities.

The Wages of Fear aka Le Salaire de la peur is a gripping thriller

I've got this and the William Friedkin remake of it, Sorcerer, and have been waiting for a chance to have a double-feature to see both movies in one night. It sounds like an incredible movie.

That's awesome, BP; you'll love it. Have you seen Point Blank? Walker (Lee Marvin) just wants his money, and is willing to take on a massive corporate criminal enterprise to get it. Bonus points for a young Angie Dickinson (goo goo ga ga) and Carroll O'Connor; in rehearsal, Marvin reportedly punched John Vernon hard enough to make him cry. Tough shit, Dean Wormer.

No, I haven't seen it, Hugh, but it sounds great and I [heart] Lee Marvin.

The Wages of Fear is superb. I think about it all the time. It would make a great double feature with His Girl Friday (my favorite movie), with Friday batting clean-up.

It's clear I'm gonna need more than a weekend. *calls in sick next week*

Some of my favoritest movies:
All About Eve--Oh Bette Davis. How I love you. The dialogue in this movie is so smart and so funny. It is quite seriously one of the greatest scripts ever written.

Rushmore--The look on Bill Murray's face when the bees are released is one of my favorite bits of acting. He goes from confusion, to grudging respect, to terror in the span of about 1 second. Plus he gives the greatest graduation address of all time: "Take aim at the rich ones. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down."

Harvey--I don't trust anyone who doesn't love James Stewart. A lack of Stewart love signals a sickness in the soul.

Raising Arizona--This movie is why I can't quite fully dislike Nicholas Cage, even though he's a total tool. Watch it and you'll be yodeling and practicing your Holly Hunter accent for weeks to come.

Mommie Dearest--It's not meant to be a comedy. But it totally is. "Tear down this BITCH of a bearing wall and put a window where it ought to be!"

Scotland, PA. Macbeth set in a fast food restaurant in Pennsylvania in the 70s. If that's not enough, the soundtrack is completely by Bad Company. This is one of my favorite movies ever, ever, EVAR.

All The President's Men

Just saw it yesterday, and really enjoyed it.
Why? Cos it's got Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, and Sam Robards and Jack Warden, and a host of others.
Also got some very good direction from Alan J Pakula.

I have no idea what kind of stuff you like but how about:
The Fearless Vampire Killers - silly vampire experts travel to a small vampire-infested town including the hot resident Sharon Tate. Polanski stars and directs.
Danger: Diabolik - Mario Bava's supercool criminal mastermind comic-book-like tale
Mysterious Skin - Greg Araki's best and most focused
Quatermass and the Pit - more Martian madness
Tampopo - really sweet Japanese movie about a woman opening up a noodle restaurant
The Tingler - classic William Castle. Brilliant. Scream! Scream for your lives!

Second Mysterious Skin, that was great.

Me? i would just rewatch Freaks and Geeks for about the 14th time. Then rewatch Arrested Development.

But movies? Oh The last King of Scotland! I enjoyed that.

The original Manchurian Candidate. To Catch a Thief.

Possession - Softcore porn for English majors. Not really, it's PG-13 but a fascinating, literate story.

The Big Lebowski - You've seen it a dozen times but you'll love it again. Admit it.

First Season of Sports Night - A very strong series that went down in quality then got canceled but the first season is tops.

Frida - Salma Hyak's tour de force about Kahlo, with Alfred Molina as Rivera.

Diva - My fave non-English film of all time.

I recommend Miller's Crossing by the Coen brothers. It's a terrific period gangster film. It does have some moments of pretty strong violence, but it serves the film. It's got a great cast, and while it is played fairly straight, it has some great moments of the Coens' style of weirdness and black comedy.

I also second reccommendations of The Searchers and Tampopo the first Japanese "Noodle Western"

Too many choices to parse right now. I'm sure you all will follow this thread to to the bottom of the front page, waiting for me to announce the winner.

Thanks everyone! Bunnies rawk.

"The Vanishing" - the original Dutch version, not the Keifer Sutherland remake.

"Runaway Train" with Jon Voigt and Eric Roberts. Much against my better judgment, I started watching this one night and was gripped.

"Secretary" - funny and sexy.

"Shortbus" - as above, but with real sex too.

Speaking of Dutch flicks, check out Soldier of Orange aka Soldaat van Oranje, Paul Verhoeven's WWII masterpiece, starring a young Rutger Hauer. Fantastic.

Bull Durham. I'm sure you've seen it, but it's great to see again. Or True Romance. Violent, but romantic, too. And of course I second Big Lebowski. I have to see it once a month myself.

Treasure of the Sierra Madre's fabulous, if you haven't seen it. And I find Apocalypse Now comforting, but I'm strange. Or how 'bout Taxi Driver? You can feel like you're here in the gritty city with us. We may watch it later ourselves.

Of course, if you haven't seen Deadwood, you MUST. You won't be able to stop.

Congrats to MGL! I'll let you know how I like it :)

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, and I do intend to visit this thread often for new ideas.