Every year for the last 20 years, 25 motion pictures have been selected for archiving in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Here's the full of list of this year's films, while after the break I will embed full video for some of the shorts. Dog Day Afternoon, Dir. Sidney Lumet (1975) The Exiles, Dir. Kent MacKenzie (1961) Heroes All, Dir. Anthony Young (1920) Hot Dogs for Gauguin, Dir. Martin Brest (1972) The Incredible Shrinking Man, Dir. Jack Arnold (1957) Jezebel, Dir. William Wyler (1938) The Jungle, Dir. Charlie "Brown" Davis, Jimmy "Country" Robinson, David "Bat" Williams (1967) The Lead Shoes, Dir. Sidney Peterson (1949) Little Nemo, Dir. Winsor McCay (1911) Mabel's Blunder, Dir. Mabel Normand (1914) The Mark of Zorro, Dir. Rouben Mamoulian (1940) Mrs. Miniver, Dir. William Wyler (1942) The Muppet Movie, Dir. James Frawley (1979) Once Upon a Time in the West, Dir. Sergio Leone (1968) Pillow Talk, Dir. Michael Gordon (1959) Precious Images, Dir. Chuck Workman (1986) Quasi at the Quackadero, ...
- 12/30/2009
- by Brendon Connelly
- Slash Film
The selections for this year's additions to the National Film Registry include some Muppets, a Sergio Leone classic, dancing zombies, and a Doris Day rom-com. In short, not a bad slice of U.S. film history.
Under the National Film Preservation Act, the Library of Congress chooses 25 films each year to add to the registry, picking titles that they consider "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" significant. The movies aren't preserved because they're the "best," but rather because of their cultural importance. This year's selections bring the number of films in the collection to 525.
The 2009 entries include 1979's The Muppet Movie, Sidney Lumet's Oscar-winning Dog Day Afternoon, 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man, the William Wyler-directed Mrs. Miniver, and the Doris Day-Rock Hudson classic Pillow Talk. Also on the list are the animated 1911 adaptation of Windsor McKay's Little Nemo, and Mabel Normand's silent Mabel's Blunder, which the actress wrote and directed,...
Under the National Film Preservation Act, the Library of Congress chooses 25 films each year to add to the registry, picking titles that they consider "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" significant. The movies aren't preserved because they're the "best," but rather because of their cultural importance. This year's selections bring the number of films in the collection to 525.
The 2009 entries include 1979's The Muppet Movie, Sidney Lumet's Oscar-winning Dog Day Afternoon, 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man, the William Wyler-directed Mrs. Miniver, and the Doris Day-Rock Hudson classic Pillow Talk. Also on the list are the animated 1911 adaptation of Windsor McKay's Little Nemo, and Mabel Normand's silent Mabel's Blunder, which the actress wrote and directed,...
- 12/30/2009
- by Dawn Taylor
- Cinematical
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