Re: What's For Dinner?

Leonard Blaisdell wrote:

Look up homonym. Go from there. I'm always here to help you.

BTW, Leo, lookie here...!!!
https://cinesavant.com/
Hello!
"Here’s something we didn’t expect. Every year the National Film
Registry adds 25 more titles deemed worthy of restoration, as
‘historically, culturally and aesthetically significant.’  They’ve been
doing this since 1989, when the first titles chosen were plenty obvious:
The Searchers,  Singin’ in the Rain,  Vertigo...
We take special note that this year’s list includes William Cameron
Menzies’ Invaders from Mars, as we’ve always been a major booster of the
title. It may not yet ‘hang in the Louvre,’ but it’s a much-deserved
honor for a picture that ten years ago was an oddity with a reputation
split between ‘Masterpiece’ and ‘Silly Sci-fi loser.”  Not helping was
the fact that the show couldn’t be seen in a decent copy...
We think Invaders was chosen because of the major restoration performed
several years ago, that attracted a lot of attention. Restoration
supervisor Scott MacQueen agrees:  ” I think there’s no question that
the 4K Blu-ray, looking as sharp and clean as it does, put the movie
back on people’s radar.”  For that we still have Jan Willem Jansen of
Ignite to thank … as previously explained, restoring the movie was so
difficult, any another rights-holder might very well not have gone to
the trouble...
Here’s the new NFR list; we note that today’s review title No Country
for Old Men made the cut as well...
https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-films-named-to-national-film-registry-for-preservation/s/55d5285d-916f-4105-b7d4-7fc3ba8664e3
25 Films Named to National Film Registry for Preservation
Release Date: 17 Dec 2024
"Twenty-five films have been selected for the Library of Congress
National Film Registry in 2024 due to their cultural, historic or
aesthetic importance to preserve the nation’s film heritage, Librarian
of Congress Carla Hayden announced today...
The new selections date back nearly 130 years and include a diverse
group of films, filmmakers and Hollywood landmarks. The selections span
from a silent film created to entice audiences at the dawn of cinema in
1895 to the newest selected film from 2010, a drama about social
media...
The public submitted nominations of more than 6,700 titles for
consideration this year...
The selections bring the number of titles in the registry to 900. Some
films are among the 2 million moving image collection items held in the
Library of Congress. Others are preserved in coordination with copyright
holders or other film archives...
Films Selected for the 2024 National Film Registry
(chronological order)
Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895)
KoKo’s Earth Control (1928)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
The Chelsea Girls (1966)
Ganja and Hess (1973)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Zora Lathan Student Films (1975-76)
Up in Smoke (1978)
Will (1981)
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
Powwow Highway (1989)
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
American Me (1992)
Mi Familia (1995)
Compensation (1999)
Spy Kids (2001)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
The Social Network (2010)..."
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