Teaching me to be more clear in my semi-esoteric suggestions, my categories was Movies about Movies. I had meant Movies about the Moviemaking process, not movies about the movies. So, this week’s winner is a direct byproduct of my miscommunication. This is also a week of ties with three sets of ties featuring seven of the eight films. Tied for 7th place are 1937’s A Star Is Born and 1994’s Ed Wood with 14 points each. In a three-way tie for fourth, we have Barton Fink, Get Shorty and The Stunt Man with 16 points each. Then, in second place, our third tie, with 21 points each are 1954’s A Star Is Born and 1924’s Sherlock Jr., which leaves one film at the top of the heap, clearly not in a tie with 26 points, Cinema Paradiso. Cinema Paradiso wins and goes into my queue.

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.

• Friendly Persuasion (1956)
• Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
• Little Big Man (1970)
• Lone Star (1996)
• Lonely and the Brave (1962)
• The Missing (2003)
• Open Range (2003)
• Ride the High Country (1962)

This Week’s Category: Shakespeare’s children (adaptations of his plays)