TQOTD: Movies

[pat]

In 2002, the groundbreaking "mockumentary" This is Spinal Tap was awarded what honor?



It was named to the U.S. National Film Registry, indicating it was "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant". It was in a class which included Alien, In the Heat of the Night, From Here to Eternity, and Beauty and the Beast.

Comments

[patgreene.livejournal.com]

I think there must be.... looking at the authorizing legislation for the National Film Registry, I don't see anything prohibiting foreign films (in fact there are one or two with French titles) but since it is essentially a department of the Library of Congress, there is bound to be an American bias. They only pick twenty five a year, and my understanding is that the idea is that they will preserve copies of these films. I seem to remember that "Star Wars" was on the original list -- I hope they preserved the original, not the later version that Lucas rereleased. So far I think there are about 175 on the list.