The NFR has decided which magic 25 films are deserving of preservation this year. It's an interesting mix of Hollywood pop, early unknowns & shorts:
Tol’able David (1921) - Henry King
The Strong Man (1926) - Harry Langdon, Frank Capra
"Mighty Like a Moose" (1926) - Charley Chase silent short, Leo McCarey
"The Sex Life of the Polyp" (1928) - Robert Benchley short
Grand Hotel (1932) - Edmund Goulding, Greta Garbo, Wallace Beery, John & Lionel Barrymore, Joan Crawford
"Three Little Pigs" (1933) - animated Disney short
"Our Day" (1938) - Wallace Kelly, silent amateur short
Wuthering Heights (1939) - William Wyler, Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Gregg Toland
The Women (1939) - George Cukor, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell...
Dance, Girl, Dance (1940) - Dorothy Arzner, Lucille Ball, Maureen O’Hara
Now, Voyager (1942) - Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid
"The House I Live In" (1945) - Mervyn LeRoy short, Frank Sinatra
The Naked City (1948) - Jules Dassin
In a Lonely Place (1950) - Nicholas Ray, Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame
Oklahoma! (1955) - Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Gloria Grahame
12 Angry Men (1957) - Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda
Glimpse of the Garden (1957) - Marie Menken avant-garde film
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) - John Ford, Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Lee Marvin
Bullitt (1968) - Peter Yates, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn
Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71) - Ken Jacobs avant-garde film
Peege (1972) - Randal Kleiser student film
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Steven Spielberg, Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon
Days of Heaven (1978) - Terrence Malick, Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard
Back to the Future (1985) - Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd
Dances with Wolves (1990) - Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene