U.S. National Film Registry Adds 25 More Films to the List

posted by Jett Loe

Via Metafilter comes the news that 25 more films have been added to the U.S. National Film Registry, (here’s the takeaway from the press release:

Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, each year the Librarian of Congress names 25 films to the National Film Registry that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant, to be preserved for all time. These films are not selected as the “best” American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring significance to American culture.

I love: “to be preserved for all time.” It conjures up a vision of the future, 27th century maybe, when our descendants, (or artificial life simulacrums of our descendants), are sitting huddled in the cold, flickering darkness around the Holo-Cube watching Johnny Guitar. Class.

Here’s the list of added pics:

1)  The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
2)  Deliverance (1972)
3)  Disneyland Dream (1956)
4)  A Face in the Crowd (1957)
5)  Flower Drum Song (1961)
6)  Foolish Wives (1922)
7)  Free Radicals (1979)
8)  Hallelujah (1929)
9)  In Cold Blood (1967)
10)  The Invisible Man (1933)
11)  Johnny Guitar (1954)
12)  The Killers (1946)
13)  The March (1964)
14)  No Lies (1973)
15)  On the Bowery (1957)
16)  One Week (1920)
17)  The Pawnbroker (1965)
18)  The Perils of Pauline (1914)
19)  Sergeant York (1941)
20)  The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
21)  So’s Your Old Man (1926)
22)  George Stevens WW2 Footage (1943-46)
23)  The Terminator (1984)
24)  Water and Power (1989)
25)  White Fawn’s Devotion (1910)

(Photo at top from Foolish Wives)

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