It was a solid race between pre-1980’s flicks with only one film after 1979 making the top 7. At the bottom is the ’90s novelty flick White Men Can’t Jump with 11 points. Following that film up was Sally Field’s Oscar-winning performance in Places in the Heart with 15. Two points higher is Spike Lee’s Clockers with 17 points topped by John Huston’s The Dead with 21, one point under the seventh-ranked entry. That entry was the first of the ’70s representation: A Woman Under the Influence with 22 points, followed closely by the 1979 version of Nosferatu with 23 points. Rounding out the bottom 8 with 26 points was 2000’s Yi Yi, the most recent entry on the list. Separated by seven points, the top 3 starts off with 1971’s Walkabout with 32 points followed by Hepburn/Bogart classic The African Queen with 35. But, with a massive 39 points, To Kill a Mockingbird claims the number one position, which guarantees it a place at the top 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 April 4 (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.

Sometimes a genre gets stuck in the rotation and it makes for a rough viewing schedule. Starting this week, I’m going to be asking for suggestions that fit a specific genre so each week can be a bit spicy. The genre or event listed each week will be posted at the end of this post.

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.

• Cinema Paradiso (1988)
• The Curse of the Demon (1957)
• Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
• The Hasty Heart (1949)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
• The Producers (1968)
• The Song of Bernadette (1943)
• The Trasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
• The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

This Week’s Genre: Comedies.
I know it’s a bit broad, but it doesn’t seem like I’ve had a good comedy in my queue in a long time.