Tuesday, December 29, 2015

The No ClickBait, Annotated List of National Film Registry Archive Additions, 2015

  1. Being There (1979) -- adaptation of a novella, starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine
  2. Black and Tan (1929) -- (youtube video) a recording of Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
  3. Dracula (1931) (Spanish language version) -- Spanish adaptation of Dracula, using the same costumes as sets as the Bela Lugosi film, but starring Carlos VillarĂ­as
  4. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) -- (youtube video) live action short adaptation of Dream of a Rarebit Fiend comic
  5. Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1974) -- documentary on photographer Eadweard Muybridge
  6. Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894) -- youtube video
  7. A Fool There Was (1915) -- a silent film drama with "controversial" "risque" intertile cards like "Kiss me, my fool!" starring Theda Bara
  8. Ghostbusters (1984)
  9. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) -- satire with Preston Sturges screenplay nominated for 1945 Academy Award
  10. Humoresque (1920) -- film noir starring Joan Crawford and John Garfield
  11. Imitation of Life (1959) -- romantic drama starring Lana Turner
  12. The Inner World of Aphasia (1968) -- youtube video, educational film about patients with aphasia (inability to speak caused by brain trauma) and the medical staff treating them
  13. John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946) -- a George Pal Puppetoon
  14. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  15. The Mark of Zorro (1920) -- silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks
  16. The Old Mill (1937) -- a Walt Disney Silly Symphony
  17. Our Daily Bread (1934) -- aka Hell's Crossroads, sequel to The Crowd (1928)
  18. Portrait of Jason (1976) -- documentary on gay African-American hustler and cabaret performed Jason Holliday
  19. Seconds (1966) -- scifi movie starring Rock Hudson
  20. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  21. Sink or Swim (1990) -- experimental film containing 26 short stories featuring the same father/daughter characters
  22. The Story of Menstruation (1946) -- a Disney produced educational film commissioned by the maker of Kotex (I think I need to see this)
  23. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) -- an experimental, metatextual cinema verite docudrama by William Greaves
  24. Top Gun (1986)
  25. Winchester '73 (1950) -- Western starring Jimmy Stewart
This list was compiled because every article that I saw on this topic required multiple clicks (most 26 clicks). Seriously, news media?

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