airplane is still being talked about – Airplane!? Culturally significant? Shirley not

Regina, Saskatchewan’s Leslie Nielsen was best known for his comedic roles in Naked Gun and Airplane!.

Nielsen started his career as a dramatic actor before moving into the world of comedy.

They include “Airplane,” the 1980 comedy that hilariously spoofed disaster films. Check out the press release below. Also on the list 1976’s “All the President’s Men,” which chronicled the Watergate break-in as seen through the eyes of journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. This year’s additions bring the list’s total figure to 550 movies. Check out the full list below: 1. These films are not selected as the “best” American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring significance to American culture. “The National Film Registry is a reminder to the nation that the preservation of our cinematic creativity must be a priority because about half of the films produced before 1950 and as much as 90-percent of those made before 1920 have been lost to future generations.” Here’s the full list of films selected for the 2010 National Film Registry: Airplane! (1980) “Airplane!” emerged in 1980 as a sharply perceptive parody of the big-budget disaster films that dominated Hollywood during the 1970s. As the nations repository of American creativity, the Library of Congresswith the support of the U.S. Congressmust ensure the preservation of Americas film patrimony, said Billington.

About half the films produced before 1950 and 90 percent of those made before 1920 have been lost, Billington said. “The National Film Registry is a reminder to the nation that the preservation of our cinematic creativity must be a priority, because about half of the films produced before 1950 and as much as 90% of those made before 1920 have been lost to future generations,” said the Librarian of Congress, James H Billington.

The most recent film to make the registry is Peter Hutton’s Study of a River, from 1996. It’s one of five selections from the 1970s. Far from being a blockbuster, it’s a beguiling examination of the life of the Hudson river as seen through Hutton’s camera lens. Veditz was one of the first to make motion picture recordings of American Sign Language, and in the film, he argues forcefully for the right of deaf people to sign instead of speak. “That was a great revelation,” Billington said. The most recent films chosen were “Study of a River,” an experimental 1996 film about the Hudson River, and “Malcolm X,” Spike Lee’s 1992 biography of the civil rights leader. Documentaries picked this year include John Huston’s “Let There Be Light” (1946), which the Pentagon banned from public distribution for 35 years because of its frank depiction of psychological trauma among combat veterans.

Billington’s pre-1950 choices included W. Joining the registry this year are his 15-minute student film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB , made in 1967, which won a national student film festival award for its inventiveness, and the second in his classic Star Wars trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

Leave a Reply Cancel reply