Julie Andrews!

It is that time of year again.

Our friends at the Library of Congress have announced the most recent batch of 25 films that are being added to the National Film Registry.

Stuff you might have heard of:

  • “Forbidden Planet”
  • “Judgment at Nuremberg”
  • “The Magnificent Seven”
  • “Mary Poppins”. Gee, isn’t that interesting?
  • “Pulp Fiction”
  • “The Right Stuff”
  • “Roger and Me”
  • “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Pretty much all of these strike me as good choices, except “Roger and Me”. “Pulp Fiction”, I’m sure, will be divisive. More at the LAT link, including the stuff you probably haven’t heard of. On that list, I’m kind of intrigued by “Daughter of Dawn”, “King of Jazz”, and “Notes on the Port of St. Francis”.

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3 Responses to “Julie Andrews!”

  1. Lawrence Person says:
    December 18, 2013 at 9:47 am

    Speaking of Mary Poppins, I meant to send you a link to this Harlan Ellison rant yesterday.

  2. Borepatch says:
    December 18, 2013 at 10:45 pm

    “Roger and Me”? Really?

    Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave.

  3. stainles says:
    December 19, 2013 at 6:37 am

    “Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave.”

    With all due respect, Brother Borepatch, Thomas Jefferson has been spinning in his grave since…I’d guess 1850 or thereabouts.

    I think it is one of the great American tragedies that we didn’t dig him up around 1900, attach magnets to his body, and bury him again inside a coil of copper wire. I’m not sure how much energy TJ would put out, but it would be the closest we’ve ever gotten to a perpetual motion machine.