National Film Registry Picks 25 More Films
by Andre Soares
The National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress has added 25 more films to its roster. According to Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, "the films we choose are not necessarily the ‘best’ American films ever made or the most famous, but they are films that continue to have cultural, historical or aesthetic significance."
Among the chosen films are Buster Keaton’s comedy The Cameraman (1928), the outrageous Barbara Stanwyck vehicle Baby Face (1933), William Friedkin’s Academy Award-winner The French Connection (1971), George Stevens’s anti-Western Giant (1956), the racial melodrama Imitation of Life (1934), the epoch-making (and British-made?) The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the documentary about disadvantaged basketball players Hoop Dreams (1994).
The 25 films, including shorts and features, documentaries and narratives, are:
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. The Making of an American (1920)
16. The Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
17. Mom and Dad (1944)
18. The Music Man (1962)
19. The Power of the Press (1928)
20. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
21. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
22. San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
23. The Sting (1973)
24. A Time for Burning (1966)
25. Toy Story (1995)
Quote from the Hollywood Reporter.
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