LC Selects 25 Titles for National Film Registry
Staff -- Library Journal, 1/8/2001
The Library of Congress (LC) has selected this year's crop of 25 movies that will be added to the National Film Registry. Typically, it's an eclectic group, with the films ranging from Hollywood blockbusters to documentaries and historical footage of McKinley's 1901 inauguration. Included are: Francis Ford Coppola's Conrad-esque Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now (1979), Tod Browning's perennial creeper Dracula (1931), Mervyn LeRoy's gangster standard Little Caesar (1930), Martin Scorsese's mobster opera Goodfellas (1990), and Gordon Park's detective thriller Shaft (1971). The full list in alphabetical order is as follows: Apocalypse Now (produced in 1979), Dracula (1931), The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), Five Easy Pieces (1970), GoodFellas (1990), Koyaanisqatsi (1983), The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912), Let's All Go to the Lobby (1957), The Life of Emile Zola (1937), Little Caesar (1930), The Living Desert (1953), Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), Multiple Sidosis (1970), Network (1976), Peter Pan (1924), Porky in Wackyland (1938), President McKinley Inauguration Footage (1901), Regeneration (1915), Salome (1922), Shaft (1971), Sherman's March (1986), A Star Is Born (1954), The Tall T (1957), Why We Fight (series) (1943-5), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).
