National Film Registry Class of 2016

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Never realized but the website has some really good essays (none for this year's class, apparently, yet).

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Paris Is Burning 1990	5
Point Blank 1967	5
Putney Swope 1969	4
Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928	4
Ball of Fire 1941	2
The Birds 1963	2
The Princess Bride 1987	1
The Atomic Café 1982	1
Rushmore 1998	1
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 1988	1
The Decline of Western Civilization 1981	1
The Breakfast Club 1985	1
Blackboard Jungle 1955	1
The Lion King 1994	0
A Walk in the Sun 1945	0
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1916	0
Thelma & Louise 1991	0
Suzanne, Suzanne 1982	0
The Beau Brummels 1928	0
Reverend Solomon Sir Jones films 1924-28	0
East of Eden 1955	0
Funny Girl 1968	0
Life of an American Fireman 1903	0
Lost Horizon 1937	0
Musketeers of Pig Alley 1912	0

― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:17 (eight years ago)

It's between The Birds and Paris is Burning, unless I decide that Musketeers of Pig Alley is gayer than either.

― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:19 (eight years ago)

Much as I love those two, probably comes down to Point Blank vs Steamboat Bill Jr for me. I recommend watching Shaw & Lee in The Beau Brummels first.

https://vimeo.com/19767598

It's comedy, so Eric can pass.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:45 (eight years ago)

gas.

― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:52 (eight years ago)

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 15:55 (eight years ago)

when i met up with plax1co in London, he was telling me how he had just seen (and hated) Funny Girl.

how it took this long for the Keaton and Hitchcock films to get in...

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:06 (eight years ago)

Birds and PiB were my first thoughts too, but wd be pushed to choose between them, or to rule out Point Blank, Decline of Western Civilization and maybe even Roger Rabbit out of the ones i've seen

― Wassail Anarchist (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:08 (eight years ago)

Giving Putney Swope a sympathy vote cos it feels like the kind of thing that should be preserved in an archive, whereas The Birds will always be with us in some format or other

― Darcy Sarto (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:10 (eight years ago)

i don't see why we need to POO of several great and v different films, so really fuck this.

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:11 (eight years ago)

well yeah

― Wassail Anarchist (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:13 (eight years ago)

unless I decide that Musketeers of Pig Alley is gayer than either.

I decided that Life of an American Fireman is gayer than ever

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:39 (eight years ago)

Pass on the Suzanne, Suzanne screening. I'll check out Ball of Fire, tho

― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:42 (eight years ago)

BoF is hilarious

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 16:55 (eight years ago)

I voted Blackboard Jungle

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:10 (eight years ago)

just for the presence of Jamie Farr?

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:12 (eight years ago)

fond memories of smashing LPs and threatening my teachers with knives

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:29 (eight years ago)

the sun'll come out vic morrow

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:37 (eight years ago)

Tempted to throw a vote to Putney Swope for this alone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjrXVjpAXjE

― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:02 (eight years ago)

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs)

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:36 (eight years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 00:01 (eight years ago)

Putney Swope, no question.

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 01:03 (eight years ago)

oh pleeeease

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:09 (eight years ago)

Downey over Keaton and Boorman, KMA

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:09 (eight years ago)

Point Blank is a stone classic iirc

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:16 (eight years ago)

The princess bride, which is one of the ten or fifteen most quotable movies ever made

― altony rightano (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:00 (eight years ago)

crazytalk

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:01 (eight years ago)

Yeah, that's inconceivable.

― ILXorcist 2: The Heretic (Eric H.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:10 (eight years ago)

Morons!

― How I Wrote Plastic Bertrand (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:11 (eight years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Thursday, 29 December 2016 00:01 (eight years ago)

you keep on using that word, i don't think it means what you think it means

― altony rightano (voodoo chili), Thursday, 29 December 2016 00:11 (eight years ago)

i voted the atomic cafe: there are a lot of bomb docs but there's nothing like it

― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:35 (eight years ago)

i'm ok with that tie

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 29 December 2016 02:40 (eight years ago)

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