Chris Garcia looks at the National Film Registry, both the films that populate it, and the ones that should be listed!
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The 2024 National Recording Registry “Clarinet Marmalade” – Lt. James Reese Europe’s 369th U.S. Infantry Band (1919) “Kauhavan Polkka” – Viola Turpeinen and John Rosendahl (1928) Wisconsin Folksong Collection (1937-1946) “Rose Room” – Benny Goodman Sextet with Charlie Christian (1939) “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” – Gene Autry (1949) “Tennessee…
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The 2023 National Film Registry list A Movie Trip Through Filmland (1921) Dinner at Eight (1933) Bohulano Family Film Collection (1950s-1970s) Helen Keller: In Her Story (1954) Lady and the Tramp (1955) Edge of the City (1957) We’re Alive (1974) Cruisin' J-Town (1975) ¡Alambrista! (1977) Passing Through (1977) Fame (1980) Desperately Seeking Susan …
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# Episode Notes
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Episode Notes More on SaroyanOur Patreon Auto-Generated Transcript Registry-The Human ComedyFri, 8/12 11:53AM • 6:32SUMMARY KEYWORDSfilm, presents, story, family, script, ithaca, andy hardy, focused, work, star, great, comedy, james cagney, telegraph office, incredibly, deserved, dialoguing, fascinating, mayor, role This is Registry, a Podcast, fro…
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Episode Notes A classic neo-Noir film starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, it's a masterful example of how blocking sets mood in a genre that is known for lighting. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes The listing A sampler Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes The Full List 2021nationalfilmregistry libraryofcongress nationalfilmregistry film filmhistory StopMakingSense Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes The Breakfast Club is arguably John Hughes most important, and best, film. Released in 1985, the poster was created from an Annie Leibowitz photograph and is an iconic image of teen films, referenced through to today. Comments or questions - johnnyeponymous@gmail.com film filmhistory nationalfilmregistry teenmovie johnhughes bratpack …
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Episode Notes 13 Lakes Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes Roger Ebert's masterful review Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes The original website Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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The 2020 National Film Registry list Suspense (1913) Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) Bread (1918) The Battle of the Century (1927) With Car and Camera Around the World (1929) Cabin in the Sky (1943) Outrage (1950) The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Lilies of the Field (1963) A Clockwork Orange (1971) Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) Wattsta…
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Episode Notes There are two Ben Hurs on the Registry! This one, starring Ramon Navaro, is a masterful piece of spectular viewing! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes One of the most wonderful and aesthetically-awesome pictures to come out during World War II, and one that isn't on the Registry, which annoys me! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes An amazing thought piece that looks at concepts of memory, description, image, destruction, and much much more. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes Kurt Kuenne set out to make a film to introduce a son to the father he would never know. Tragedy brought what had been meant as a personal work into wide-release and ended up changing Canadian law. For more info - http://dearzachary.com/ Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co…
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Episode Notes Tex Avery had a massive impact on the history of American Animation, and this film, added to the Registry in 1993, is one of his most fun and wonderful... but also plays with racist stereotypes that are always jarring. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes An excellent document of the Mexican American Experience! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes Kinda problematic, but really thoughtful work from 1980 Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes More than 3,000 Americans signed up to ship out to Spain to fight Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War, the training ground for the fascists itching to get to World War II! This film is an excellent document of the group whose number of survivors are now 0... Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co…
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Episode Notes There are a lot of folks I love in this one, from David Strathairn and Lori Petty to Geena Davis and Madonna, but there's that old Gary Marshall making me annoyed at many turns! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes William S. Hart's masterpiece, one of the finest silent westerns ever made and an excellent example of what you could do when you were a big time producer with a solid vision. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes A Robot! Wonderful technological marvels! A fair! Kids! It's a wonderful industrial film that was supporting the US powerhouse Westinghouse in 1939! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes An amazing piece of avant garde cinema that takes itself exactly as seriously as every film should! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes Johnathan Demme's minimalist masterpiece is the essence of the Talking Heads boiled down to a two hour film. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes A look at Stanley Kramer's exceptional screwball comedy. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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Episode Notes The 2019 National Film Registry was announced in Decemeber, but I'm only now able to talk about it! Women Directors are around! There's some classics that I thought were already on! And more Complete List Amadeus 1984 Becky Sharp 1935 Before Stonewall 1984Body and Soul 1925 Boys Don't Cry 1999 Clerks 1994Coal Miner's Daughter 1980 Emi…
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The death of Jonas Mekas reminds me that this is a film that must be on the Registry!
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A look at what is pretty much the only even vaguely avant garde piece included on the 2018 Registry and a fine work looking at African-American ideas of beauty.
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A look at one of the finest films of the last twenty years. From acting to script to direction to impact, Brokeback is a film that 100% belongs on the Registry.
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The first of our looks at the 2018 entries to the National Film Registry, we look at Something Good - Negro Kiss, a 1898 film that is one of the most joyous 26 seconds you'll ever see!
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A look at one of the best and most important of all Teen FIlms
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A look at the starting point for all 21st Century Musicals
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2008 Films are now eligible for the Registry, but will any make it on the first ballot?
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King Vidor! Andrew Wyeth! A Short Documentary!!!!!
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A look at Robert Breer's masterful abstract animation!
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A look at 1980 Avant Garde!
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It's a masterpiece of American Avant Garde cinema, and a film with a story of ebb and flow and how you SHOULDN'T make a movie. Lucifer Rising was one of the most important films of 1980 that's not on the National Film Registry!
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Our look at the Year 1980 and all the National Film Registry worthy films that aren't on continues with Robert Altman's Popeye, a musical that explores both a fantastical comic strip world and Altman's own cinematic signatures!
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We begin our look at the amazing cinematic year that was 1980 with a consideration of Friday the 13th. Yes, it was the beginning of a massively important franchise that also didn't quite fit what the franchise would become. We look at the reasons it should be on the National Film Registry, what the impact was on the world of genre film, and why it …
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A look at a notable film not on the Registry
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How should the Registry recognise the work of the legendary director John Waters? In this episode, I examine the possibility of four films that might be worthy - Pink Flamingoes, Female Troubles, Hairspray, and Cecil B. Demented.
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A Fantasy Film 101 cross-over talking about the 2017 Registry addition Field of Dreams!
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A special episode of Fantasy Film 101 dealing with Dumbo, added to the Registry in 2017
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What is it? Does it have one?
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Bela Legosi and Boris Karloff together for the first, and by far the best, film in their careers!
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