Birdy (have it on video), Brother Sun, Sister Moon (excellent+++), A Christmas Story, Nosferatu, Salem's Lot, The Chosen, Something Wicked This Way Comes (excellent+++) and White Squall.

If you like drama I would recommend The Edge, Vertical Limit and Aspen Extreme, Eight Below.

Great comedies: Mousehunt, Lampoons Vacation, Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

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Birdy truly is wonderful though wonderfully odd. I could relate to it quite a bit. I felt like the Matthew Modine character most of the time. Thanks for your recommendations as well. I can always use some new suggestions.

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Billy Elliot
A Christmas Story
Dead Poet's Society
Edward Scissorhands
Elizabeth (if it's the version I'm thinking of, from the 1990s)
Good Will Hunting
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Disney's)
My Own Private Idaho
Paris Is Burning (this is the doc. about black drag queen balls and such?)
Rebel Without A Cause
Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann)
Romeo And Juliet (Zeffirelli)
The Sound of Music
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Out of curiosity, did you construct this list? Have you seen them all? Does it represent all the films that you can remember seeing? Or some of them?

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Yes, this is my list of favorites, though I left off a few like Vincent And Theo, Pi, Expelled and Donnie Darko. How could I leave those off? And oh yeah, Gummo. These are films I've watched at least once, though some I've seen two or more times. This is in no way my entire list as I have hundreds more that didn't make the favorites list even though I might recall interesting elements in them. The ones that made the list captivated me the whole time.

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a few :)

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oh yeah, I love films... I suppose your list would be pretty long. And that would go for both bands and films.

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I've seen a bunch of those partially, but these are the ones I recognize as having seen completely:

Amarcord
American Beauty
Brazil
Dead Man
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Elizabeth
Fahrenheit 451
Fiddler On The Roof
Fight Club
Gatacca
Good Will Hunting
How To Draw A Bunny
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
My Own Private Idaho
Rear Window
Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann)
Slacker
The Sound of Music
Strangers On A Train
The Talented Mr. Ripley
12 Monkeys
Vertigo
Waking Life
The Work Of Director Michel Gondry (Be Kind Rewind, Eternal Sunshine)
The Work Of Director Spike Jonze (Malkovich)

Also, I think you meant to type Mark, not Mike Romanek.

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And now I realize "The Work Of" is a series of DVDs, I'll have to add them to my Netflix thanks for the tip. I added some others on your list too. :)

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Do you have any favorite films of your own? Were any that we both saw especially memorable to you for any reason? And yes, thanks for the correction. I'll change that.

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Honestly I tend to love dumb movies like Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood and 1408. As for ones we both saw, How To Draw A Bunny stands out. As for what I would prescribe to you, I say go for more Jarmusch. You've seen Dead Man and while that's great it's an outlier in his material, I think you would enjoy the rest of his catalog excepting Coffee + Cigarettes which also isn't representative:

Stranger Than Paradise (essential!)
Down By Law
Mystery Train
Night On Earth
Ghost Dog
Broken Flowers

On the Lynch front you need to see Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, for Kubrick you need to see Paths of Glory and Barry Lyndon.

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Thanks for the tips. I saw Coffee & Cigarettes but wasn't moved. Still, I'll check out these other Jarmusch films since I really enjoyed Dead Man.

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