2008 LoC additions to the US national film registry

I have seen almost none of these films! Any recommendations, dear ilxors, bring it on plz plz.

Claude Rains as Invisible Man is a nice adaptation of the HG Wells novella. Esp if you are 11 years old.

Johnny Guitar is probably over-analysed but it's still great mentalist Lust in the Dust catfight Western good times if you haven't seen it.

Of those I've seen, I recommend:
Foolish Wives
Hallelujah
No Lies (although it's extremely disturbing and I'm still schizy about it after having first seen it early last year)
On the Bowery
One Week (one critic traced the Keaton-esque hero of Un Chien Andalou pulling a piano, 2 priests, dead donkeys, etc. to this Keaton short)
Water and Power
White Fawn’s Devotion

And, of course, Johnny Guitar which I voted for.

Sergeant York is one of Hawks' worst. Red Line 7000 is in more dire need of preservation (and love).

And here's Free Radcials

I wish the first was Blackboard Jungle.

<3 len lye

Len Lye! Wd rather it was his CRAZY AWESOME 30s colour work, but I'll vote for him anyway.

Obligatory youtubes on the offchance anyone isn't familiar: Kaleidoscope / A Colour Box (both made in 1935 by hand-painting directly onto the film)

foolish wives/johnny guitar/asphalt jungle all so good
would like to see hallelujah

i love that both those films linked to by a passing spacecadet were commissioned by the british post office!

The GPO commissioned some excellent stuff in the 30s. Check this:

http://www.imdb.com/company/co0122165/

Basically gave opportunities to a bunch of Leftist film guys and Mass Observation types to make awesome groundbeaking documentaries

yeah, "night mail"!!

Alberto Cavalcanti - who made one of my favourite WWII movies, Went the Day Well, got started with the GPO unit as well I think.

The Killers is pretty good. If you think Kubrick needed reining in -- I don't, but I can understand it -- this is your movie.

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Zowee: how is it that the only one of these I've seen is Flower Drum Song?

I mean, "not watching many movies" accounts for most of it, but you wouldn't expect that to be the one that slips through

A Face in the Crowd is my vote today, but In Cold Blood, Deliverance or the Pawnbroker are also worthy.

"The Killers is pretty good. If you think Kubrick needed reining in -- I don't, but I can understand it -- this is your movie."

Kubrick didn't direct the Killers. He directed the Killing. The Killers is with Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner.

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People are dumb.

OMG. (mine was the 1 vote for "Perils of Pauline")

Alex, did you vote for A Face in the Crowd? I thought I did, but maybe I forgot to... Anyway, Andy Griffith is way more entertaining than some evil robot from the future.

I did (or at least I think I did.)

Weird thing about the LOC description of Johnny Guitar is that it seems to forget that Sterling Hayden was even in the film.