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12-28-2007, 07:07 PM
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And the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2007 are...
Not sure if this is the right board to discuss this, but it seemed the best choice.
• 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)
The selections were made as part of a program aimed at preserving the nation’s movie heritage. Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act of 1992, each year the Librarian of Congress, with advice from the National Film Preservation Board, names 25 films to the National Film Registry to be preserved for all time. The films are chosen because they are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. This year’s selections bring to 475 the number of motion pictures in the registry.
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The list of the previous 450 films included from 1989-2006 can be found here.
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12-28-2007, 10:03 PM
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Re: And the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2007 are...
Surprised that 12 Angry Men and Close Encounters weren't already in the registry.
Glad to see Back To The Future. It's not the first film you think of as a great film, but I think it is deceptively good. Excellent performances, confident direction, and one of the tightest scripts I have ever seen.
Not happy to see Dances With Wolves - surely there are better films that that that deserve to be listed.
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12-28-2007, 11:08 PM
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Re: And the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2007 are...
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Glad to see Back To The Future. It's not the first film you think of as a great film, but I think it is deceptively good. Excellent performances, confident direction, and one of the tightest scripts I have ever seen.
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Over the summer, I watched Back To The Future for the first time in years and was impressed by how good of a movie it really is. It's not just a good blockbuster- it's also a good movie.
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12-29-2007, 06:04 AM
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Re: And the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2007 are...
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Not happy to see Dances With Wolves - surely there are better films that that that deserve to be listed.
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It's fine that you don't like "Dances with Wolves", however, with that being said, tell me how that film doesn't meet the following criteria listed in quotes? As I look at the entire listing, I see a few films I wouldn't call great or even good films, but that doesn't mean their existence didn't have an influence on America's movie heritage.
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G.W. McLintock: Camille, you're on your own.
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12-29-2007, 06:06 AM
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Re: And the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2007 are...
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Over the summer, I watched Back To The Future for the first time in years and was impressed by how good of a movie it really is. It's not just a good blockbuster- it's also a good movie.
I'm also happy to see Bullitt get some attention too.
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I agree, both of these fine films meet the National Film Registry criteria without question. Both of them have influenced greatly how films are made today.
G.W. McLintock: Camille, you're on your own.
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12-29-2007, 10:34 AM
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Re: And the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2007 are...
I've never really understood the backlash against DANCES WITH WOLVES but I think a lot of it is the "ORDINARY PEOPLE Syndrome". OP beat RAGING BULL so today people trash OP. The same with WOLVES, which seems to take a beating because it beat GOODFELLAS.
Even if someone didn't enjoy the movie it certainly belongs on the list under the rule that Robert highlighted. It was the first mainstream Western that showed Indians in a different light that drunks, rapists or savages. Under those terms I think it is a very important film. There might have been Westerns before it that didn't show Indians in a negative way but this was the film that every did see when it was released.
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12-29-2007, 12:01 PM
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Re: And the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2007 are...
Without Dances with Wolves you would never have Braveheart, The English Patient, Titanic, or Lord of the Rings, and several other prominent epic films that came after it. Heaven's Gate had ruined United Artists, and had "proved" to Hollywood that making an epic was financial suicide.
Dances with Wolves not only totally reversed this thinking by being a box office smash, but it garnered universal praise and astounding critical acclaim. And let's not forget the wonderful cinematography, excellent score, and superb art direction. It also features many subtitles for a non-English language in an American film, which has also been greatly influential. Mel Gibson owes a lot to Dances with Wolves.
And make no mistake - it's Oscar wins over GoodFellas were no upset. Dances with Wolves was the favorite to win all its awards by anyone's estimations in early 1991.
GoodFellas is a wonderful film. So is Dances with Wolves. Both are masterpieces of cinema, for many different reasons. I still say the exhilaration of the buffalo hunt has been rarely matched, and I think people forget the variety and complexity of the characters.
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12-29-2007, 01:23 PM
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Re: And the 25 films added to the National Film Registry in 2007 are...
I would like to know how a film named "The Sex Life of a Polyp" would be significant to U.S film history. The first porn film? 
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12-29-2007, 01:52 PM
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