National Film Registry 2006
And when, oh when, is Breakfast At Tiffany's going to make this list. Whatever one feels about its merits (and as some of you know, it's my favorite movie), there's no denying its place as a cultural touchstone and its iconic status.
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Here's this year's list. Seems a little more weighted to already-famous titles than usual, but I certainly won't argue with selections like Days of Heaven or In a Lonely Place. Of those I haven't seen, I've heard great things about Tol'able David and Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son in particular. The Sex Life of the Polyp sounds like something I must see. I've also wanted to see the Strong Man for a while now, but at this rate they'll run out of Frank Capra films to induct before they get to a single one by Andre De Toth, James Broughton, Robert Siodmak, or John Waters.
• Back to the Future (1985)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
• Dances With Wolves (1990)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
• Grand Hotel (1932)
• The House I Live In (1945)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
• The Naked City (1948)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• Oklahoma! (1955)
• Our Day (1938)
• Peege (1972)
• The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
• The Strong Man (1926)
• Three Little Pigs (1933)
• Tol’able David (1921)
• Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• The Women (1939)
• Wuthering Heights (1939)
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• Back to the Future (1985)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
• Dances With Wolves (1990)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
• Grand Hotel (1932)
• The House I Live In (1945)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
• The Naked City (1948)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• Oklahoma! (1955)
• Our Day (1938)
• Peege (1972)
• The Sex Life of the Polyp (1928)
• The Strong Man (1926)
• Three Little Pigs (1933)
• Tol’able David (1921)
• Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71)
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• The Women (1939)
• Wuthering Heights (1939)
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Not exactly, but you could start with:
no Brian De Palma films
no Friz Freleng cartoons
no James Benning films
no Abel Ferrara films
no Mitchell Leisen films (none he directed, anyway, nor any of the Cecil B. DeMille films he did the costumes for)
Then you could just pick random masterpieces. McCabe and Mrs. Miller. the Mortal Storm. Mothlight. Faces. the Sinking of the Lusitania. the Scarlet Empress. the Decline of Western Civilization. He Who Gets Slapped. Fort Apache. the Black Cat. King-Sized Canary.
You could go on and on, but what would REALLY be nice is if there was less of a focus on the masterpieces people already have at least a modicum of access to, and more of a focus on the ones almost nobody but hardcore film scholars and enthusiasts (like the ones on this board who've taught me a huge percentage of what I know about classical Hollywood) remember. They appear to do a good job at digging relatively deep when it comes to educational and industrial films, newsreels, early silents, but it may be that experts in those fields would protest that assessment.
If the registry had a little more to do with actual film preservation than it actually does, I'd be more upset that recent films like sex, lies and videotape and Groundhog Day (which I like) got inducted over a decaying silent or an orphan film from the 1940s. It's interesting that, of all things, Fargo gets inducted on its first year eligible. Not even Schindler's List pulled that one off. But I understand there is a contingent of the committee that wants the list to, if not mimic, then at least eventually contain the AFI 100, and they're starting to run out of titles. Perhaps next year it will finally be Pulp Fiction's turn (just to rub in it in the face of Jackie Brown fans on the first year that film is eligible?).
Of this year's indictees I've already seen, I wholeheartedly applaud the Big Trail and the Harry Smith abstractions. Given that they're prone to pick already-canonized Hollywood classics, Notorious seems long overdue. And given that they want to include big hit films made in my lifetime, Halloween couldn't be a better selection.
no Brian De Palma films
no Friz Freleng cartoons
no James Benning films
no Abel Ferrara films
no Mitchell Leisen films (none he directed, anyway, nor any of the Cecil B. DeMille films he did the costumes for)
Then you could just pick random masterpieces. McCabe and Mrs. Miller. the Mortal Storm. Mothlight. Faces. the Sinking of the Lusitania. the Scarlet Empress. the Decline of Western Civilization. He Who Gets Slapped. Fort Apache. the Black Cat. King-Sized Canary.
You could go on and on, but what would REALLY be nice is if there was less of a focus on the masterpieces people already have at least a modicum of access to, and more of a focus on the ones almost nobody but hardcore film scholars and enthusiasts (like the ones on this board who've taught me a huge percentage of what I know about classical Hollywood) remember. They appear to do a good job at digging relatively deep when it comes to educational and industrial films, newsreels, early silents, but it may be that experts in those fields would protest that assessment.
If the registry had a little more to do with actual film preservation than it actually does, I'd be more upset that recent films like sex, lies and videotape and Groundhog Day (which I like) got inducted over a decaying silent or an orphan film from the 1940s. It's interesting that, of all things, Fargo gets inducted on its first year eligible. Not even Schindler's List pulled that one off. But I understand there is a contingent of the committee that wants the list to, if not mimic, then at least eventually contain the AFI 100, and they're starting to run out of titles. Perhaps next year it will finally be Pulp Fiction's turn (just to rub in it in the face of Jackie Brown fans on the first year that film is eligible?).
Of this year's indictees I've already seen, I wholeheartedly applaud the Big Trail and the Harry Smith abstractions. Given that they're prone to pick already-canonized Hollywood classics, Notorious seems long overdue. And given that they want to include big hit films made in my lifetime, Halloween couldn't be a better selection.
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Does anyone have a running list of movies they've outrageously neglected to induct yet?
1) Applause (1929)
2) The Big Trail (1930)
3) Blazing Saddles (1974)
4) The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916-17)
5) Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
6) Drums of Winter (1988)
7) Early Abstractions #1-5,7,10 (1939-56)
Fargo (1996)
9) Flesh and the Devil (1927)
10) Groundhog Day (1993)
11) Halloween (1978)
12) In the Street (1948/52)
13) The Last Command (1928)
14) Notorious (1946)
15) Red Dust (1932)
16) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-72)
17) Rocky (1976)
18) Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
19) Siege (1940)
20) St. Louis Blues (1929)
21) The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
22) Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
23) Think of Me First as a Person (1960-75)
24) A Time Out of War (1954)
25) Traffic in Souls (1913)
1) Applause (1929)
2) The Big Trail (1930)
3) Blazing Saddles (1974)
4) The Curse of Quon Gwon (1916-17)
5) Daughter of Shanghai (1937)
6) Drums of Winter (1988)
7) Early Abstractions #1-5,7,10 (1939-56)
Fargo (1996)9) Flesh and the Devil (1927)
10) Groundhog Day (1993)
11) Halloween (1978)
12) In the Street (1948/52)
13) The Last Command (1928)
14) Notorious (1946)
15) Red Dust (1932)
16) Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1971-72)
17) Rocky (1976)
18) Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989)
19) Siege (1940)
20) St. Louis Blues (1929)
21) The T.A.M.I. Show (1964)
22) Tess of the Storm Country (1914)
23) Think of Me First as a Person (1960-75)
24) A Time Out of War (1954)
25) Traffic in Souls (1913)