Not as tight as last week’s race, the top three vote-getters this week were fairly close and the rest were decently far behind. Wilson was eliminated for not being available on Netflix, leaving 9 films to get votes. Coming in at the bottom was Band of Outsiders with 12 points, followed closely by The Hill with 13. Just above them with 14 points was Home from the Hill. Three films tied with 19 points each: Kiss Me Deadly, Ship of Fools and The Omen. In third was The Devil and Daniel Webster with 26 points. At 28 points, second place went to Seven Samurai. And earning this week’s top spot with 30 points, Dog Day Afternoon. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend and reviewed in The Morning After to be posted on March 21 (due to a backlog, I may not be able to get the review posted by that timea0.
Here’s the deal: every week, I will be calling for suggestions of films to be added to my Netflix queue. Each person makes one suggestion and one alternate (in case I have seen one of your suggestions). The next week, when I call for new suggestions, we begin a one-week voting period to select the film to be placed immediately into my Netflix queue to be reviewed the weekend after (because I’ll already have my Netflix queue selections for the coming weekend). Then, you’ll find out what I thought in my weekly Morning After feature on Monday morning.
I’m also going to throw in a couple of selections I haven’t seen from Oscar history. To select the years from which I’ll contribute, I will randomly select two years and then look at the Best Picture race and choose a film there I have not yet seen.
To help decide what to pick, here is a list of what I’ve seen (or at least that I have personally logged).
Full List of Films I’ve Seen (some titles missing, especially those already viewed during this series)
Here’s what you need to post today (and through next Wednesday):
- Below, please provide your suggestions to add to my Netflix queue.
- Next, please rate each of the following entries in order of preference. Item 1 will be most preferred, 2 next most preferred and so forth.
- Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- The Country Girl (1954)
- The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
- The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- The Old Dark House (1932)
- Ran (1985)
- The Sand Pebbles (1966)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- Sisters (1973)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
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