National Film Registry adds 25 films to Library of Congress

[IbanezJem]

1. "Suspense" (1913)

2. "Kid Auto Races at Venice" (1914)

3. "Bread" (1918)

4. "The Battle of the Century" (1927)

5. "With Car and Camera Around the World" (1929)

6. "Cabin in the Sky" (1943)

7. "Outrage" (1950)

8. "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955)

9. "Lilies of the Field" (1963)

10. "A Clockwork Orange" (1971)

11. "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" (1971)

12. "Wattstax" (1973)

13. "Grease" (1978)

14. "The Blues Brothers" (1980)

15. "Losing Ground" (1982)

16. "Illusions" (1982)

17. "The Joy Luck Club" (1993)

18. "The Devil Never Sleeps" (1994)

19. "Buena Vista Social Club" (1999)

20. "The Ground" (1993-2001)

21. "Shrek" (2001)

22. "Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege" (2006)

23."The Hurt Locker" (2008)

24. "The Dark Knight" (2008)

25. "Freedom Riders" (2010)

 

Shrek indeed... although it`s one of the very few I`ve seen from this list.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

neat

[invisible airwave]

My favorite movie that came out my year of birth.

 

[78jazz]

The Blues Brothers most certainly deserves to be in there.

[bathory]

shrek is deep. it's totally ironic in a lot of ways and skewers its own genre. it deals with themes like class conflict, isolation, conformity.

[driventotheedge]

The Blues Brothers most certainly deserves to be in there.

Their mission from God now fully realized.

[JohnnyBlaze]

My favorite from my favorite director of all time is up there. Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange! Easy top 10 movie for me.

Tbh, I’m surprised it wasn’t already registered.

[Nova Carmina]

I don't know the criteria for selection: is it "great" movies or just things that are especially representative of their moment or genre or something? Some curious choices, but, as expressed above, The Blues Brothers is awesome.

[JohnnyBlaze]

I don't know the criteria for selection: is it "great" movies or just things that are especially representative of their moment or genre or something? Some curious choices, but, as expressed above, The Blues Brothers is awesome.

 

They’ve stated for years (and it’s easy to find) that they choose movies “based on their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage”