National Film Registry 2011 Announced

The list is out and in my opinion not quite as good a list as the last couple years, but not bad either... at least they did a little Oscar Best Picture catch-up with three added (The Lost Weekend, The Silence of the Lambs, Forrest Gump).  Just one movie off my suggestions made it, the grossly overlooked Bambi, glad at long last it's on there.

I was surprised to see that Chaplin's The Kid wasn't already on there, it made me, of course, want to know how many of his feature length films are in the registry, so I checked.  Of Chaplin's 11 directorial features, 5 are in the registry and 6 are not.  They've clearly got it right so far, although I'm partial to Limelight.  Certainly all of Chaplin's features should at some point be in the registry save for the last two (which were British anyway).

Chaplin features in: The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940).

Chaplin films out: A Woman of Paris (1923), The Circus (1928), Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Limelight (1952), A King in New York (1957), A Countess from Hong Kong (1967).

Here is a link to the Hollywood Reporter article.

The 25 newly added films as follows:

ALLURES (1961)

BAMBI (1942)

THE BIG HEAT (1953)

A COMPUTER ANIMATED HAND (1972)

CRISIS: BEHIND A PRESIDENTIAL COMMITMENT (1963)

THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN (1912)

A CURE FOR POKERITIS (1912)

EL MARIACHI (1992)

FACES (1968)

FAKE FRUIT FACTORY (1986)

FORREST GUMP (1994)

GROWING UP FEMALE (1971)

HESTER STREET (1975)

I, AN ACTRESS (1977)

THE IRON HORSE (1924)

THE KID (1921)

THE LOST WEEKEND (1945)

THE NEGRO SOLDIER (1944)

NICHOLAS BROTHERS FAMILY HOME MOVIES (1930s-40s)

NORMA RAE (1979)

PORGY AND BESS (1959)

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)

STAND AND DELIVER (1988)

TWENTIETH CENTURY (1934)

THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)