With a dismal 12 points, With a Song in My Heart is the lowest film on this week’s list. Above it at 17 points is The Roaring Twenties (the film, not the decade). The Train came in 7th at 22 points just behind Jerry Maguire with 23. Tied in fourth are Richard III and The King and I with 27 points each. One point separated second and third place with Picnic taking 3rd with 30 points and Broadcast News getting 2nd with 31. Which leaves The Hustler as the number one vote-getter with 36 points, which puts it directly at the front of my Netflix queue. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend and reviewed in The Morning After to be posted on March 28 (due to a backlog, I may not be able to get the review posted by that time).

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 (updated through 3/10/11; a small number of titles may be missing still)
Here’s what you need to post today (and through next Wednesday):

1. Below, please provide your suggestions to add to my Netflix queue.
2. 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.

• The African Queen (1951)
• Clockers (1995)
• The Dead (1987)
• High Noon (1952)
• Nosferatu, the Vampire (1979)
• Places in the Heart (1984)
• To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
• Walkabout (1971)
• White Men Can’t Jump (1992)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
• Yi Yi (2000)