Published at: Dec. 29, 2005, 8:57 p.m. CST by staff
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with something cool for you rabid film fans. In a time of the year that is notoriously dead when it comes to movie news, the National Film Registry decided to announce their addititions to the vaults of preserved film. This year has some surprising additions and I thought it'd make for a good discussion in the talkbacks below about which films you'd like to see added to the list next year. Here are the 25 films added to the list this year!
1) Baby Face (1933)
2) The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man (1975)
3) The Cameraman (1928)
4) Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)
5) Cool Hand Luke (1967)
6) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
7) The French Connection (1971)
8) Giant (1956)
9) H2O (1929)
10) Hands Up (1926)
11) Hoop Dreams (1994)
12) House of Usher (1960)
13) Imitation of Life (1934)
14) Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest (1910)
15) Making of an American (1920)
16) Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
17) Mom and Dad (1944)
18) The Music Man (1962)
19) Power of the Press (1928)
20) A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
21) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
22) San Francisco Earthquake and FireApril 18, 1906 (1906)
23) The Sting (1973)
24) A Time for Burning (1966)
25) Toy Story (1995)
I'm ignorant of a lot of those flicks, but I'm really surprised that movies like GIANT and THE FRENCH CONNECTION, THE STING, COOL HAND LUKE, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET and A RAISIN IN THE SUN weren't already on the registry. I'm happy to see the lack of pretentiousness with additions like TOY STORY and am just surprised as all hell that THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW is recognized as an important film by the US government. Whoda thunk? I love the film myself and count it as one of my favorite movies of all time, but it is about a transexual transvestite alien that builds himself a blond hunk to butt-fuck. Still shocked to see it listed. Shocked, but gleefully happy.
