National Film Registry 07.

"The 25 titles to be added this year to the National Film Registry were announced this morning by the Librarian of Congress, James H Billington," announces Dave Kehr, who's got the list. "Once again, it's a diverse, wide-ranging selection, not intended as any kind of 'best' list (though inevitably it is interpreted that way) but instead as a reflection of American film culture in all of its forms and fashions, from home movies (the extraordinary Our Day, a 1938 film by Wallace Kelly of Lebanon, Kentucky, that displays a more sophisticated sense of mise-en-scene than the great majority of current Hollywood features) to the most expensive and elaborate industrial products (Back to the Future, Close Encounters of the Third Kind)."

Posted by dwhudson at December 27, 2007 7:39 AM