Movie/film suggestions.

@77jovian: I haven’t seen The Fortune Cookie, but I sure love Lemmon and Matthau in The Odd Couple. Who doesn’t?!

Agree about the Coen’s, with the exception of Intolerable Cruelty. But then I haven’t seen The Hudsucker Proxy, Burn After Reading, or The Ladykillers (love the original). I love, love, love The Man Who Wasn’t There and A Serious Man. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs is pretty darn great, and of course it goes without saying so are Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?.

Mean Streets was the first Martin Scorsese film I saw, which may be why it remains my favorite of his (well, it and Taxi Driver).

@bdp24  I admit that part of my affection for The Fortune Cookie is because I practiced law for 40 years and the TFC is a perfect send-up of personal injury lawsuits.  And great in other ways, too.  

Probably my career also heightens my appreciation of the Coens' Intolerable Cruelty.  I also loved the Hudsucker Proxy and Burn After Reading.  The Ladykillers is good but not among their bests IMO.  Surprising nobody has mentioned Blood Simple and The Big Lebowski as Coen essentials, too.

Yep, forgot about The Big Lebowski, and I really need to rewatch Blood Simple again. I've seen it only once, and that many years ago. I need to see Miller's Crossing again too.

While you're completing your tour of the Coens' oeuvre, please watch Barton Fink and then write me and tell me what the Hell that was about!  Interesting how I can so enjoy a movie that I have no understanding of at all (like Lynch's Mulholland Drive).

A couple that used to be my favorites:

Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid

Apocalypse Now