Good call on Beau Travail. Until I was about 17 my goal in life was to join the Foreign Legion.

I don't have a fav film but good stuff I've seen recently,

500 Days of Summer and Up in the Air, both, sort of, unromantic comedies.

Mendes latest Away We Go is a really charming film. A youngish couple basically travel around America trying to find their place in the world.

Anything with Spencer Tracy.

Stuff that I consistently love. The Big Lebowski, Fight club, Van Damme and Segal stuff from the 80s and early 90s, Hard Eight(even Gwyneth Paltrow can't ruin it), fuck it any PT Anderson film, Full Metal Jacket.

If I had to pick one for everyone to see it would be "The Thin Red Line". Be warned this is not a war film and if you put it on expecting to see one you will be bored silly.
I've written a few sentences trying to describe it but I can't; just watch it.


Hunger - I went in ready to hate this film. Fucking artist makes film about IRA hunger strikers. Fuck off. But it really is a piece of art. He isn't overly concerned about the conflict or politics more about violence itself and how far our bodies can be pushed. Actually it only falls down when the characters talk to each other. I know, sounds boring and pretentious but it's not.