Registry, Notable DVDs and Dave Kehr's top ten.

This year's round of 25 films to be added to the National Film Registry was announced this morning, "bringing the total number of titles on the list to the nice round figure of 500," notes Dave Kehr in an entry which also points to his piece in the New York Times on the "Notable DVDs of 2008" and features his own "alphabetical list of the best movies I saw in the last twelve months."

Regarding the Registry, Dave Kehr notes that "the annual lists have increasingly moved beyond the borders of Hollywood narrative filmmaking to include avant-garde, independent, documentary and sponsored work"; in the NYT, he argues that "DVDs are the primary force keeping film history alive." Murnau, Borzage and Fox is, of course, the "big one for 2008."

Posted by dwhudson at December 30, 2008 3:07 PM