Another tie caps this week’s literary adaptations theme. Watership Down starts off the bottom of the list with 10 points followed closely by Women in Love with 11 and War and Peace with 12. The Loved Ones picks up 16 points for fifth place while Dangerous Liaisons, a film I expected to place higher, managed only 19 points. Narrowly losing out on a tie for first, David Copperfield finishes third with 24 points. 1946’s Great Expectations and 1993’s The Remains of the Day top the vote totals with 26 points each. As this is a tie-break and both are Oscar nominees, I have decided to go with a film that I probably should have seen 18 years ago. The Remains of the Day wins and goes into my queue. I will receive it next week to be watched that subsequent weekend and reviewed in The Morning After to be posted on June 6 (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.

• David and Lisa (1962)
• Dirty Harry (1971)
• Dodsworth (1936)
• Ed Wood (1994)
• Iphigenia (1977)
• Lenny (1974)
• Mister Roberts (1955)
• Rembrandt (1936)

This Week’s Category: American Adaptations of Foreign Language Films (narrow, I’m sure, but could be interesting)