yay, Harry Langdon, Robert Benchley and Valance, In a Lonely Place . Costner, ugh.
• 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)
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― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)
should have been a poll
― max, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)
God, no
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)
max otm I'm not even sure how to handle this
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)
yeah, I'm sure DW Griffith and Ken Jacobs would be real competitive with the McFlys.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)
i tried watching The Women and while it was great, it was rly tough to understand all the dialogue. i know this happens with hold movies sometimes but this one was tricky. i need to see it again for sure.
― Surmounter, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)
because...? It was fast, or just anachronistic?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)
it was fast -- almost like how Gosford Park tries to capture how conversation would really sound like if you were there, kind of scattered
― Surmounter, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)
I'm surprised Grand Hotel wasn't already on the registry.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)
Lolz @ Dances with Wolves
― remy bean, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)
I posted this on the detrius thread because, at this point, that's where they belong.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)
Dances with Wolf Eyes
― gabbneb, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)
what does this registry mean
― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)
Well, only the Dances with Wolves citation really seems detriusy.
― Eric H., Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)
mark, It's not a best-of; it's vaguely preservationist, ie, reflects the times and evolution of American cinema, etc.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)
The films are selected for their cultural, historical, or aesthetic significance to be preserved by the Library of Congress.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)
ok so it's not just a list.
― s1ocki, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)
world was changed forever by sex life of a polyp
― remy bean, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)
it is a true reflection of the roaring twenties
― remy bean, Thursday, 27 December 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)
worthy of commemoration and uh, asexual reproduction
It's funny, but less, uh, filmic than other Benchley shorts.
xp: except I think the Library of Congress preserves other films that are NOT one the list. Unless these go in a nuke-proof vault.
has anyone ever seen The House I Live In? A pro-tolerance short featuring title song crooned by young Sinatra. Cited by McCarthyites, I think, as evidence that Frank was a Red.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)
I have not seen House I Live In, Three Little Pigs, Strong Man, Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son, nor Peege.
― remy bean, Thursday, 27 December 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)
The Women captures an important historical moment in shoulder pads.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)