Films selected to the National Film Registry

[AllardChardon]

Films selected to the National Film Registry
By The Associated Press

A list of the 25 films being added to the National Film Registry, as announced Tuesday by the Library of Congress:

• "Airplane!" (1980)

• "All the President's Men" (1976)

• "The Bargain" (1914)

• "Cry of Jazz" (1959)

• "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" (1967)

• "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980)

• "The Exorcist (1973)

• "The Front Page" (1931)

• "Grey Gardens" (1976)

• "I Am Joaquin" (1969)

• "It's a Gift" (1934)

• "Let There Be Light" (1946)

• "Lonesome" (1928)

• "Make Way For Tomorrow" (1937)

• "Malcolm X" (1992)

• "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971)

• "Newark Athlete" (1891)

• "Our Lady of the Sphere" (1969)

• "The Pink Panther" (1964)

• "Preservation of the Sign Language" (1913)

• "Saturday Night Fever" (1977)

• "Study of a River" (1966)

• "Tarantella" (1940)

• "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945)

• "A Trip Down Market Street" (1906)


I am amazed at how many I have not seen.

 

[jomar]

Or even heard of...

 

[AllardChardon]

I recently rented The Front Page and it was very good, indeed.

 

[sr71plt]

All of these movies were actually released, right? (Agreeing with jomar here)

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I saw The Empire Strikes Back . . .

 

[CharleyH]

Films selected to the National Film Registry
By The Associated Press

A list of the 25 films being added to the National Film Registry, as announced Tuesday by the Library of Congress:

• "Airplane!" (1980)

• "All the President's Men" (1976)

• "The Bargain" (1914)

• "Cry of Jazz" (1959)

• "Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB" (1967)

• "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980)

• "The Exorcist (1973)

• "The Front Page" (1931)

• "Grey Gardens" (1976)

• "I Am Joaquin" (1969)

• "It's a Gift" (1934)

• "Let There Be Light" (1946)

• "Lonesome" (1928)

• "Make Way For Tomorrow" (1937)

• "Malcolm X" (1992)

• "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971)

• "Newark Athlete" (1891)

• "Our Lady of the Sphere" (1969)

• "The Pink Panther" (1964)

• "Preservation of the Sign Language" (1913)

• "Saturday Night Fever" (1977)

• "Study of a River" (1966)

• "Tarantella" (1940)

• "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (1945)

• "A Trip Down Market Street" (1906)


I am amazed at how many I have not seen.

To tell the truth, I'm surprised that it took so long for Saturday Night Fever, The Pink Panther, McCabe & Mrs. Miller and especially All the President's Men. As for some of the other choices? Well .. ??? Can you tell us a bit more about the criteria, Allard?

 

[mynameisben]

From Justin to Kelly didn't make the cut again, huh?

 

[TxRad]

I think I have seen them all except the one made in 1891 ans one from 1913.

 

[AllardChardon]

I really don't know what criteria is used to determine entrance into the National Film Registry, but The Exorcist made it along with Airplane!

 

[bootylover_]

Yay for The Empire Strikes Back and McCabe & Mrs. Miller!

 

[amicus]

You haven't seen them because they are shitty films from beginning to end.

But that list is illustrative of the abyss between the common, traditional and conventional values of the American people and the depraved, polluted and corrupt moral sense of life portrayed by Progressives.

For the past several months, I have been making a list of films worth watching more than once, I may bless you with my perceptions one day soon.

Amicus

 

[Liar]

I was wondering if it isn't the quality of the films per se, but their impact that makes them eligble for the archive. Om movie making, on culture in general, on politics, et al.

Airplane! was pretty much the template for a whole genre of popular spoof movies. And the handful of other I recognise can be said to be movies of importance one way or the other, if not always very good.

 

[amicus]

There is some to do on the news this morning, about showing, "To Kill a Mockingbird', in Iraq to influence a sense of justice in the Muslim nation. Go figure.

Pick, at random, any 100 films you can view or read about, and I guarantee you that 90% of them will reflect that fetid Progressive indoctrinary theme of anti corporate America. It is always the bad rich guys, industrialists polluting everything and ripping people off, right and left (heh).

In addition to that level of indoctrination, for it surely is not entertainment, add in the hysteria about civil rights and see if you can drive a mile in any City in America without running into a Martin Luther King Blvd...check it out.

Lets not forget the anti smoking campaign, no more Bumphrey Hogart and a fag in his mouth. But that is minor compared to the empowerment of the female as the hero, breadwinner and crime fighter for justice; broads with butch haircuts...ah, yes, the Dikes and Butches, hell, I don't think it is legal to make a film today without at least one blatantly GAY person prancing around.

People in the movies don't even get married anymore, note the current thread on love and marriage, no one even knows what marriage is anymore; thanks, in part, to the cinematography of a morally bankrupt movie industry.

From Upton Sinclair to Orson Welles and Truman Capote, they all chant the same thematic bombast, down with America and the individual, up with the collective.

And you idiots think you are making a difference. Pathetic.

Amicus

 

[JackLuis]

Executive Action- 1973 should have been there.

 

[TE999]

Executive Action- 1973 should have been there.

It's never made it to date. Maybe next year.

Here's a complete list of all films admitted to the Registry. Talk about eclectic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry

 

[AllardChardon]

RE: Let There Be Light

At the request of the Signal Corps, John Huston made a wartime documentary of the emotionally disturbed war veterans being treated at Mason General Hospital. For three months, Huston immersed himself in the project, observing the various methods used to pull these shattered-in-spirit men out of their mental anguish, ranging from shock treatment to hypnosis. The key scene in Let There Be Light, as the film would be known upon its completion, a weeping veteran is brought back to the real world through the utilization of trance-inducing drugs. There is nothing that smacks of the sensational in this remarkable film, most certainly not the warm, reassuring narration of John Huston's father Walter. Yet when Let There Be Light was scheduled for a private showing at the Museum of Modern Art, the army confiscated the film, refusing to allow its release to any civilian audience. Huston later determined that the army simply didn't want the U.S. to see its fighting men as anything other than grinning, self-assured victors. Let There Be Light was not made available to the public until 1980, and then only on the special orders of vice-president Walter Mondale. - Hal Erickson, Rovi

 

[1sickbastard]

You haven't seen them because they are shitty films from beginning to end.

But that list is illustrative of the abyss between the common, traditional and conventional values of the American people and the depraved, polluted and corrupt moral sense of life portrayed by Progressives.

For the past several months, I have been making a list of films worth watching more than once, I may bless you with my perceptions one day soon.

Amicus

And who dubbed you the grand arbiter of what constitutes 'shitty' and great?
Most of these films haven't been seen because they are old, have been out of circulation for decades, were not feature length, or were never released for a mass audience, and in many cases are still not easily available to the public.

 

[AllardChardon]

The best part of this program is that notable films are resurrected from obscurity for the general public's welfare and given a place of honor. Whether the public decides to view these films is a personal choice, of course.

 

[mynameisben]

I can't take any film registry list seriously that does not include Snakes on a Plane.

 

[oggbashan]

What? No mention of:

Plan 9 from Outer Space

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

The Wild Women of Wongo

How To Stuff A Wild Bikini

and other wonderful films...

Og

 

[AllardChardon]

I wonder if Ed Wood starring Johnny Depp will ever be included?