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Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Becomes National Treasure in U.S. History
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Michael Jackson's classic "Thriller" video will go down in U.S. history as a national treasure - the 1983 promo is set to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. The work of the late King of Pop is the first music video to make it into the archives, which preserves original copies of classic film, TV and other recordings at the Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center near Culpeper, Virginia.
However, Library officials will have to battle to obtain a copy of the horror video for preservation because it's currently the subject of a lawsuit between music video director John Landis and the tragic star's estate. Landis, who directed and co-wrote the "Thriller" script, filed suit against Jackson in January 2009, claiming he's owed royalties for his work on the video.
"Thriller" will be entered into registry on Wednesday, December 30 alongside 24 other films
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The Muppet Movie Archived For Posterity
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Every year, the Us National Film Registry choose to preserve 25 movies and shorts in the Library of Congress. And this year? The likes of Thriller, Dog Day Afternoon and The Muppet Movie have made the list.The choices are decided by Librarian of Congress James H Billington and, as usual, they're an eclectic bunch. Among the titles are are 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man, 1911 silent release Little Nemo and 1968's Sergio Leone classic Once Upon A Time In The West. But yes, this year, Michael Jackson's Thriller and the cinematic debut of Kermit and co have also been deemed worthy of inclusion. And why not?"Established by Congress in 1989, the National Film Registry spotlights the importance of protecting America's matchless film heritage and cinematic creativity," Billington said in a statement. "By preserving the nation's films, we safeguard a significant element of our cultural patrimony and history." You can find
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Thriller, Dog Day, and Muppets Among 2009 National Film Registry Entries
12 hours ago
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The classic music video/short film for Michael Jackson’s Thriller (directed by John Landis) was among 25 films selected Wednesday to be forever preserved by the Library of Congress. Every December, films that have attained a certain level of historical importance are selected to be entered into the National Film Registry, and the list of this year’s inductees offers a few classics, something never done before, and even the Muppets.
Here’s the list:
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
The Exiles (1961)
Heroes All (1920)
Hot Dogs For Gauguin (1972)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Jezebel (1938)
The Jungle (1967)
The Lead Shoes (1949)
Little Nemo (1911)
Mabel’S Blunder (1914)
The Mark Of Zorro (1940)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Precious Images (1986)
Quasi At The Quackadero (1975)
The Red Book (1994)
The Revenge Of Pancho Villa (1930-36)
Scratch And Crow (1995)
Stark Love (1927)
The Story Of G.I. Joe (1945)
A Study In Reds (1932)
Thriller (1983)
Under Western Stars
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Michael Jackson, Muppets join the National Film Registry
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Michael Jackson, the Muppets and "Attica! Attica!" have earned a place in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
The library announced its annual 25 additions to the registry on Wednesday (Dec. 30), and as usual they're a mix of well-known feature films -- "The Muppet Movie," "Dog Day Afternoon" (featuring Al Pacino's famous "Attica! Attica" rant), "Pillow Talk" -- pieces of early cinematic history and experimental and short films.
For the first time since the registry was founded, the list also includes a music video: Michael Jackson's "Thriller," which, in the registry's words, "revolutionized the music industry with this lavish and expensive production."
The National Film Registry's goal is not to crate a best-of list but rather to preserve movies that are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant and stand as "works of enduring importance to American culture."
Following is this year's list of additions to the registry. More detailed
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25 Films Added to National Film Registry
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The Library of Congress’ National Film Registry I assume has some sort of vault that will hold up under nuclear blast and global warming to preserve the most important films for future generations. Because an infinite number of DVD double-dips won’t suffice.
In all seriousness, though — an entry into the Registry means that your film has significance of some sort, whether it be historic, aesthetic or cultural. This year, the number of films in the registry has been hiked from 500 to 525.
New to the list this year:
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Michael Jackson/John Landis’ Thriller music video
• Hot Dogs for Gaugin (?)
• The Muppet Movie
• Once Upon a Time In the West (how was this not entered already?)
• Pillow Talk
• The Exiles
• Quasi at the Quackadero
• Precious Images
• The Red Book
• Little Nemo
• Mabel’s Blunder
• Scratch and Crow
• Jezebel
• The Incredible Shrinking Man
• Mrs. Miniver
• Heroes All
• The Story of G.I. Joe
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Michael Jackson's Thriller picked for U.S. registry
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Michael Jackson's 1983 short movie "Thriller," the song-and-dance horror flick that helped popularize television music videos, will live on in the U.S. National Film Registry.The 14-minute "Thriller" is among 25 films the Library of Congress on Wednesday named to the registry, and it became the first music video included in the 2009 list of cultural treasures that will be preserved for all time."The Muppet Movie" of 1979, featuring Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy, 1975 bank robbery drama "Dog Day Afternoon" starring Al Pacino, the 1957 science fiction movie "The Incredible Shrinking Man" and Sergio Leone's 1968 spaghetti western "Once Upon a Time in the West" also made the list.Jackson, who died at age 50 on June 25 from an overdose of powerful medications, worked on the "Thriller" video with director John Landis.The Library of Congress described the
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25 More Films Added to the National Registry (With Video)
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Every year for the last 20 years, 25 motion pictures have been selected for archiving in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry. Here's the full of list of this year's films, while after the break I will embed full video for some of the shorts.
Dog Day Afternoon, Dir. Sidney Lumet (1975)
The Exiles, Dir. Kent MacKenzie (1961)
Heroes All, Dir. Anthony Young (1920)
Hot Dogs for Gauguin, Dir. Martin Brest (1972)
The Incredible Shrinking Man, Dir. Jack Arnold (1957)
Jezebel, Dir. William Wyler (1938)
The Jungle, Dir. Charlie "Brown" Davis, Jimmy "Country" Robinson, David "Bat" Williams (1967)
The Lead Shoes, Dir. Sidney Peterson (1949)
Little Nemo, Dir. Winsor McCay (1911)
Mabel's Blunder, Dir. Mabel Normand (1914)
The Mark of Zorro, Dir. Rouben Mamoulian (1940)
Mrs. Miniver, Dir. William Wyler (1942)
The Muppet Movie, Dir. James Frawley (1979)
Once Upon a Time in the West, Dir. Sergio Leone (1968)
Pillow Talk, Dir. Michael Gordon (1959)
Precious Images, Dir. Chuck Workman (1986)
Quasi at the Quackadero,
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Jackson's Thriller Makes Congress Archives
16 hours ago
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Michael Jackson's classic Thriller video will go down in U.S. history as a national treasure - the 1983 promo is set to be inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
The work of the late King of Pop is the first music video to make it into the archives, which preserves original copies of classic film, TV and other recordings at the Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center near Culpeper, Virginia.
However, Library officials will have to battle to obtain a copy of the horror video for preservation because it's currently the subject of a lawsuit between music video director John Landis and the tragic star's estate.
Landis, who directed and co-wrote the Thriller script, filed suit against Jackson in January 2009, claiming he's owed royalties for his work on the video.
Thriller will be entered into registry on Wednesday alongside 24 other films including 1979's The Muppet Movie, 1957 sci-fi epic The Incredible Shrinking Man, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), and Jezebel (1938), which starred Bette Davis.
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U.S. Film Registry Inducts Muppets and Spaghetti Western
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The selections for this year's additions to the National Film Registry include some Muppets, a Sergio Leone classic, dancing zombies, and a Doris Day rom-com. In short, not a bad slice of U.S. film history.
Under the National Film Preservation Act, the Library of Congress chooses 25 films each year to add to the registry, picking titles that they consider "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" significant. The movies aren't preserved because they're the "best," but rather because of their cultural importance. This year's selections bring the number of films in the collection to 525.
The 2009 entries include 1979's The Muppet Movie, Sidney Lumet's Oscar-winning Dog Day Afternoon, 1957's The Incredible Shrinking Man, the William Wyler-directed Mrs. Miniver, and the Doris Day-Rock Hudson classic Pillow Talk. Also on the list are the animated 1911 adaptation of Windsor McKay's Little Nemo, and Mabel Normand's silent Mabel's Blunder, which the actress wrote and directed,
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Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Added To National Film Registry
23 hours ago
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Iconic clip is the first music video to be inducted into the Library of Congress.
By Gil Kaufman
Michael Jackson in his "Thriller" music video
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/ Getty Images
Since his death on June 25, 2009, late pop icon Michael Jackson has been showered with accolades and honors for his 40-plus-year musical career. But on Wednesday (December 30), one of Jackson's most enduring legacies, the pioneering 1983 dancing-ghoul-filled video for "Thriller," was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
The Associated Press reported that the 14-minute mini-movie that revolutionized music videos and cemented Jackson's status as one of the most ambitious, innovative pop stars of all time, was one of 25 films that were inducted into the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings.
The iconic video, directed by John Landis ("Animal House," "The Blues Brothers"), is the first music video named to the registry. It earned
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John’s 10 Biggest Movie Surprises of 2009
24 December 2009 12:56 PM, PST
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I’ll be up front with you: the list you’re about to read wasn’t what I had in store for you. As I sat at my desk and prepared to crank out what would be another top ten list of 2009, I realized that I was utterly ill-equipped to do so. As many great films as I witnessed this year, I missed just as many that I’m sure I’d enjoy: A Serious Man. The Fantastic Mr. Fox. The Hurt Locker. The Brothers Bloom.
I know. Just thinking about it makes me sick. But I saw enough to be confident in saying that 2009 was an extremely good year for movies — from blockbusters to indie pictures, we’ve witnessed some great films and surprising debuts from unique filmmakers.
What follows isn’t a list of the “best” films of 2009, but instead is a list of the most surprising, excellent
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Featured Article: Classic Italian Film
9 November 2009 4:45 PM, PST
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With its silent superspectacles, postwar neo-realism and 1960s new wave, the Italian film industry has enjoyed three major periods of international influence. In between times, it has assimilated the technological advances and dramatic styles of foreign competitors and used them to shape such local trends as the `white telephone' film, calligraphism, giallo, the `sword and sandal' epic, the `spaghetti' Western and the dialect comedy.
Over the years, the unexpected has become commonplace. Therefore, it's no surprise to see Gianni di Gregorio, the screenwriter of the uncompromising crime saga Gomorrah, making his directorial debut with Mid-August Lunch, a charming comedy of bourgeois manners, whose unforced naturalism, social insight and deceptive wit hark back to a golden age that is recalled here by MovieMail - the best place to buy classic movies and world cinema on DVD.
After two decades of propaganda and pictorialism, Italian film went back to basics after the Second World War.
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The "Dollars Trilogy" Free on Hulu
5 November 2009 10:27 AM, PST
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A quick heads-up for Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood fans. All three of their "Man with No Name" westerns are now up on Hulu for free viewing. Hulu is only going to have these movies up until the end of November, so don't waste time, pilgrim. You can watch all three films right here.
A Fistful of Dollars originally followed the trend of remaking Akira Kurosawa's samurai films as westerns. I say trend, but really there was only, what, The Magnificent Seven? Fistful uses the plot of Kurosawa's Yojimbo as its premise, then reshapes it into Leone's own signature style. Then came the pseudo-sequel, For a Few Dollars More. Leone never meant for the three films to be a trilogy, but it just turned out that way due to Eastwood's same look and acting style in all three. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly is a prequel of sorts,
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Super-8 Movie Madness 2
26 October 2009 10:10 AM, PDT
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“Super-8 Movie Madness 2” Night at the Way Out Club will be held on Tuesday November 3 from 8pm to Midnight. The cover charge is a bargain at a measly $2.00.The first Super-8 Movie Madness was a big hit, so we’re going to do it the first Tuesday of every month. If you’re not familiar with the madness, here’s a brief rundown: Remember (before video tapes) the Super-8 films they used to sell in the 1950’s and 60’s that were condensed versions of features? In the 1970’s they sold Sound versions of these films and 16 of these will be projected on a large screen at the Way Out Club (they average about 15 minutes each).
Condensed versions of the following films will be screened November 3: The Three Stooges in Three Sappy People, Marlon Brando in The Wild One, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad, Alien, Joan Crawford in Straight-jacket, The French Connection,
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Villains We Love: Angel Eyes
19 October 2009 2:45 PM, PDT
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Great villains are scattered throughout the Westerns, but some of the most memorably savage come from the films of Sergio Leone. While Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West gets a lot of props for the way he mows down the McBain family (including its youngest and most adorable moppet), it was nothing that Lee Van Cleef hadn't already done in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Angel Eyes seems to be dismissed as something akin to Leone fan fiction, and it's his relation (or lack of) to Van Cleef's Col. Mortimer in A Few Dollars More that people find to be more interesting than his villainy.
But he's a great villain, mostly because he's absent for much for so much of the film. Leone gives him a ruthless introduction (a scene Quentin Tarantino mirrored perfectly with Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds) and promptly yanks him out of the narrative.
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Top 10 Great Movie Deaths
27 August 2009 12:16 AM, PDT
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Photo: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Top 10 Great Movie Deaths
Movies love to kill people, and actors love to die (preferably slowly and with a great close-up). Yet, more often than not, film fatalities are an accountant's errand. Just another tally mark in the body count. This isn't a list celebrating the art of ludicrous squibs and exploding craniums. The following movie deaths deliver more oomph than henchmen #4 getting steamrolled by the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile.
These are the death scenes we remember long after the actors have screamed, slobbered, cried, coughed, wheezed, or drawn out to William Shatner-esque lengths their final words. They are a perfect combination of acting, writing, filmmaking, image and idea. Some are shocking. Some are sad or bittersweet. Others funny. Some deaths you cheer on. All are memorable.
Let's begin to experience ten (technically eleven) great ends, and considering the nature of this list, yes, there are spoilers,
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Weekly Poll Results: Best Revenge Flick
26 August 2009 10:40 AM, PDT
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Revenge is, as the Klingons say, a dish that is best served cold. I'm not exactly sure what relation that has to last week's poll about revenge films except to say that Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill placed second, right behind Chan-wook Park's Oldboy. Tony Scott's Man on Fire was at #3, followed by Once Upon a Time in the West and The Crow. I'm a bit surprised that The Last House on the Left placed dead last, but with so many other great choices I guess it was just outclassed. Do you agree with these results?
1. Oldboy -- 26.9%
2. Kill Bill -- 25.8%
3. Man on Fire -- 12.1%
4. Once Upon a Time in the West -- 9.6%
5. The Crow -- 8.3%
6. Straw Dogs -- 4.1%
6. Death Wish -- 4.1%
8. Payback -- 3.6%
8. I Spit on Your Grave -- 3.6%
10. The Last House on the Left -- 1.8%
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'Inglourious Basterds': Playing spot the Tarantino reference
19 August 2009 1:17 PM, PDT
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Take your seats, class: Senior writer Chris Nashawaty continues his in-depth weeklong tutorial on all things Quentin Tarantino for the latest installment of EW University. Check out our gallery of 20 Tarantino movie and movie poster faves , our Quentin Tarantino trivia quiz, and our take on the original 1978 Inglorious Bastards.
Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds: Playing spot the reference
Any time you sit down to watch a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino, you're not just watching that movie, but all of the movies he's ever seen. Let's face it, the guy has never been shy or apologetic about his movie-love. You could say that when Tarantino name-checks some arcane chop socky movie or slyly alludes to a Eurotrash cheapie, he's giving a shout-out to the cognascenti -- his fellow movie geeks -- in the audience. In other words, when you watch a movie by Qt, you're actually watching two movies
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Tarantino’s Spaggetti War film: Inglorious Basterds
17 August 2009 9:30 AM, PDT
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The words "Understated" and "Quentin Tarantino" go together like peas and ice cream. The worlds most confident director and self confessed blabber mouth has hardly been quiet about his slow cooking project and I'm sure everyone already knows that his Basterds have been waiting in the wings for their que for more than 10 years.
So now that they're here, is this Tarantino's much whispered about "return to form"?
Well.. if, like me, you think that a film on par with Jackie Brown would be a more welcome return to form then, no. If the Kill Bill films more fantastical approach to the sly nod and hard hit film making that Tarantino does best is more up your alley, then even you may be left feeling just a tiny bit disappointed.
The film's main focus is split three ways, in true Tarantino style... you didn't think it was going to be that easy did you?
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Cjamango
15 August 2009 3:36 AM, PDT
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Sergio Corbucci's Django revolutionised the Spaghetti Western genre in many ways. The low-budget retelling of Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars – itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo – ramped up the violence, the amorality, the bloodletting and the insanity factor to an unprecedented scale, spawning a glut of rip-offs, cash-ins and unofficial sequels of varying degrees of quality. It also, quite unintentionally, began a trend for titular heroes whose names ended in the letter 'o' and when said quickly enough could possibly be mistaken for Django.
There was Anthony Steffen - the Spaghetti Western standard-bearer, himself no stranger to playing Django - starring as the main man in both Garringo and Shango. 'Sword and Sandal' star Brad Harris as the fast gun in Durango is Coming, Pay or Die. Montgomery Clark (Dante Posani) as the gambling gunslinger in Djurado and Ivan Rassimov in this, 1967's Cjamango.
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