�Fast Times� a classic? Now it's official

K9 Carlos

Given their due

The 25 films selected in 2005 to be added to the National Film Registry

�Baby Face� (1933)
�The Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man� (1975)
�The Cameraman� (1928)
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort, S.C., May 1940 (1940)
�Cool Hand Luke� (1967)
�Fast Times at Ridgemont High� (1982)
�The French Connection� (1971)
�Giant� (1956)
�H2O� (1929)
�Hands Up� (1926)
�Hoop Dreams� (1994)
�House of Usher� (1960)
�Imitation of Life� (1934)
Jeffries-Johnson world championship fight (1910)
�Making of an American� (1920)
�Miracle on 34th Street� (1947)
�Mom and Dad� (1944)
�The Music Man� (1962)
�Power of the Press� (1928)
�A Raisin in the Sun� (1961)
�The Rocky Horror Picture Show� (1975)
San Francisco earthquake and fire, April 18, 1906 (1906)
�The Sting� (1973)
�A Time for Burning� (1966)
�Toy Story� (1995)

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WASHINGTON - The documentary �Hoop Dreams� and footage of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake are among the 25 movies picked this year for the National Film Registry, a compilation of significant films being preserved by the Library of Congress.

Fictional films chosen by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington range from the Buster Keaton comedy, �The Cameraman,� to the Christmas classic �Miracle on 34th Street� to the 1982 teen comedy �Fast Times at Ridgemont High.�

The 2005 selections bring to 425 the total number of films being preserved by the Library of Congress or other institutions involved in the project.

�Sadly, our enthusiasm for watching films has proved far greater than our commitment to preserving them,� Billington said.

Half the movies made before 1950 and 80 percent to 90 percent of those produced before 1920 have disappeared, he said. He added that more are lost each year, partly because of the recently discovered �vinegar syndrome� that attacks the safety film used to preserve most of them.

The most recent movie making the list is 1995�s �Toy Story,� the first full-length computer-animated feature.

The oldest film selected this year is a documentary from 1906 of the San Francisco earthquake and the fire that followed. The disaster, which destroyed much of the city, was one of the first recorded on film.

�Hoop Dreams,� from 1994, follows the lives of two inner-city Chicago kids vying for college basketball scholarships, illustrating the limited opportunities for lower-class black families in America.

Another selection is a set of field recordings of music and services at the Commandment Keeper Church in Beaufort, S.C., in 1940. A team working under novelist Zora Neale Hurston recorded the songs and services of South Carolina�s Gullah community. Recently rediscovered sound recordings are being reunited with the film.

Popular successes on the list include �The French Connection,� an action-packed film in which Gene Hackman plays a cop tracking down international drug smugglers. The three-hour dramatization of Edna Ferber�s novel �Giant� portrays life on the great Texas plains and stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean.

Also on the list is �The Rocky Horror Picture Show,� a still popular �midnight movie� that changed Hollywood�s ideas about audience participation.

Then there�s �Baby Face,� in which Barbara Stanwyck plays a siren seducing her way up the social ladder. The 1933 film was initially banned for its sexual content before Warner Bros. released an expurgated version. An uncensored version was discovered last year.

�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,� Billington said.

Billington made his selections from more than 1,000 titles nominated by the public. He held lengthy discussions with the library�s motion picture division staff and members of the National Film Preservation Board.

The registry was created by Congress in 1989.

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SupaFly · Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 5:20 pm Post subject:

rocky horror picture show ftw
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Shu · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:13 am Post subject:

I hope that isnt "Halloween: H2O".

GotMilk? · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:50 am Post subject:

Well, since it says the date it was released was 1929, I'm taking a wild guess that it isn't.

SupaFly · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject:

lmao, yet another name
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Stealth · Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

Cool Hand Luke = My dad's favorite Movie.
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Motherfucking Triangles! Being all three sided n' shit, who do they think they are?!

Brutus · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:16 am Post subject:

I ahve seen Toy Story... thats all. I r lame.
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massive · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:31 am Post subject:

Brutus wrote:

I ahve seen Toy Story... thats all. I r lame.

yes u r! but it's understandable - i think i found the script of your life:

;the value of i represents days
for i = 1 to infinity
Work
play BFP
Map
if i = a prime number then
play with kids
talk to wife
else next i
next i
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Vlad Piranha wrote:

I'm offended that a zombie holocaust isn't on the list. It would be terrifying, sure, but it would be pretty sweet if you think about it.

Brutus · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:02 am Post subject:

pretty much... I am trying to cut back on work though. Very Happy

I took the kids to that Chronicles of Narnia movie. It was cool. Toy Story was good but CoN was another level of coolness IMO.

OMFG I want Pirates of the Carribean 2. I'll be pissed if it doesnt live up to the trailer. I HATE having movie expectations... Rolling Eyes

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CountChocula · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:31 pm Post subject:

did massive just post pseudocode?! HAX

2shoes · Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject:

thats like when i saw the matrix 3 and the first scene i saw from the movie was the only trailer i saw and was instantly like WTF this sucks teh cock
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