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25 Films Named to National Film Registry for Preservation

Posted on 12/29/24 at 6:11 pm
Posted by ssand
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 6:11 pm
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Twenty-five films have been selected for the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 2024 due to their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today.

The new selections date back nearly 130 years and include a diverse group of films, filmmakers and Hollywood landmarks. The selections span from a silent film created to entice audiences at the dawn of cinema in 1895 to the newest selected film from 2010, a drama about social media.


Films Selected for the 2024 National Film Registry

(chronological order)

Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
KoKo’s Earth Control (1928)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
The Chelsea Girls (1966)
Ganja and Hess (1973)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Zora Lathan Student Films (1975-76)
Up in Smoke (1978)
Will (1981)
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Powwow Highway (1989)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
American Me (1992)
Mi Familia (1995)
Compensation (1999)
Spy Kids (2001)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The Social Network (2010)

I've only seen a handful of these so I can't really comment on the quality of the list.
Posted by FreddieChainsaw
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 6:12 pm to
Wrath of Khan has been a long time coming.

Beverly Hills Cop (which I honestly thought was already in), No Country for Old Men, and The Social Network.

I recognize a few others (like The Miracle Worker and My Own Private Idaho), which are a bit too arty for my tastes, but yeah, sure they deserve to be in too. Some of the other more obscure ones probably only mean something to people who had an actual art house theater in their college town.
This post was edited on 12/29/24 at 6:18 pm
Posted by saintsfan22
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 6:43 pm to
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Spy Kids (2001)

nah
Posted by FearlessFreep
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 6:48 pm to
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KoKo’s Earth Control (1928)
8 minutes of pure insane genius



*edited to replace clip with restored version including musical score
This post was edited on 12/29/24 at 11:01 pm
Posted by Ghost of Colby
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 7:02 pm to
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American Me (1992)
Mi Familia (1995)

Edward James Olmos must have been on the selection committee.
Posted by FreddieChainsaw
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 7:09 pm to
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Edward James Olmos must have been on the selection committee.


Blade Runner and Stand And Deliver are already on the list. He might just have an uncanny ability to pick scripts.

Posted by LSUMJ
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 8:00 pm to
Spy kids? Wtf
Posted by rebelrouser
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 8:08 pm to
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
American Me (1992)
Mi Familia (1995)
Spy Kids (2001)

Bumch of meh. I would include Dirty Dancing but that thing has an odd staying power and fan base.
Posted by dawgdayafternoon
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 8:09 pm to
Holy shite-take mushrooms…

One of those really doesn’t belong and I have no idea why it’s being added.
Posted by Locoguan0
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 8:25 pm to
Posted by SonicAndBareKnuckles
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 9:16 pm to
Spy Kids was one the most miserable movie theater experiences I’ve ever had, and I was still young enough to be in the target demographic. I can’t imagine how awful the adults in that theater felt.

The only good thing I remembered from that movie was how Carla Gugino gave me some feelings that were new to a young fella like I was at the time.


Posted by TigerFanatic99
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 11:02 pm to
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their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage

quote:

Spy Kids (2001)


I'mma need someone to explain this one to me. I'm clearly too low brow to understand.
Posted by Jay Are
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Posted on 12/29/24 at 11:37 pm to
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Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)


Never heard of it. Must be gay.
Posted by boxcarbarney
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Posted on 12/30/24 at 10:06 am to
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Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)



My favorite movie.
Posted by RollTide1987
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Posted on 12/30/24 at 10:25 am to
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Never heard of it. Must be gay.



Here it is:

Posted by wareaglepete
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Posted on 12/30/24 at 10:29 am to
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Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)




quote:

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)




quote:

American Me (1992)


This post was edited on 12/30/24 at 10:31 am
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted on 12/30/24 at 11:50 am to
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Spy Kids (2001)




And I haven’t heard of half of these movies.
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted on 12/30/24 at 11:54 am to
And by the way, the only Lord of the Rings in the Library of Congress is Fellowship of the Ring and the theatrical version at that. So if our civilization is destroyed and the Library of Congress is the only surviving copy, then they’ll only have the first third. Honestly remove Fellowship from the LoC and just put in the entire Expanded Edition of Lord of the Rings in there instead.
This post was edited on 12/30/24 at 11:55 am
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
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Posted on 12/30/24 at 1:50 pm to
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quote:

KoKo’s Earth Control (1928)
8 minutes of pure insane genius


That was damned good.
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
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Posted on 12/30/24 at 1:51 pm to
There's one I'd deny and remove from that list outright.
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