george kaplan

Here's the 25 newest additions:

1) Baby Face (1933)
2) The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
3) The Cameraman (1928)
4) Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
5) Cool Hand Luke (1967)
6) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
7) The French Connection (1971)
8) Giant (1956)
9) H2O (1929)
10) Hands Up (1926)
11) Hoop Dreams (1994)
12) House of Usher (1960)
13) Imitation of Life (1934)
14) Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
15) Making of an American (1920)
16) Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
17) Mom and Dad (1944)
18) The Music Man (1962)
19) Power of the Press (1928)
20) A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
21) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
22) San Francisco Earthquake and FireApril 18, 1906 (1906)
23) The Sting (1973)
24) A Time for Burning (1966)
25) Toy Story (1995)

A lot of these are historically important pieces of film that one can't really argue against congress preserving. I applaud a number of the films on the list (e.g., The Sting, Miracle on 34th Street, Cool Hand Luke), and while I think it's a great film, I don't know how in need of special preservation efforts Toy Story is. But I do have to admit that I could think of some better candidates than Rocky Horror or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder

"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.

"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock

"My great humility is just one of the many reasons that I am vastly superior to everyone else." - Ramrod Clerk

rockinricky

Cool. Phoebe Cates coming out of the swimming pool and taking her top off will be preserved forever by the Library of Congress.

mattCR

Glad to see "Hoop Dreams" on that list.

Kain_C

I hope this means we'll get a good DVD of Cool Hand Luke soon!

Craig S

I think these are both great left-field choices. RHPS because it is the ultimate cult-movie, and as such represents an vital subculture of film and film fandom. FTaRH because it introduced so many great on-screen talents (Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Forest Whitaker), it was the first time a Cameron Crowe-penned work was filmed, and it perfectly captured a little slice of American social history. In fact, I consider FTaRH the American Graffiti of the 80s.

Kudos to the NFR for detouring off the beaten path and making choices like these.