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106 lines
7.1 KiB
Python
# 2007 National Film Registry inductees with LOC descriptions
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# Source: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-07-254/librarian-of-congress-announces-2007-film-registry/2007-12-27/
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NFR_2007 = {
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"Back to the Future": {
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"year": 1985,
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"description": "Before 'Beowulf' or 'The Polar Express,' writer/director Robert Zemeckis explored the possibilities of special effects with the 1985 box-office smash 'Back to the Future.' The film follows Marty McFly, accidentally transported to 1955, who must return home while helping his father become a man and protecting his family's existence."
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},
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"Bullitt": {
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"year": 1968,
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"description": "A crime drama shot on location in San Francisco, renowned for its exhilarating 11-minute car chase, arguably the finest in cinema history. Steve McQueen stars as a cop investigating a murder while navigating mob pressures and corrupt officials."
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},
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"Close Encounters of the Third Kind": {
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"year": 1977,
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"description": "Steven Spielberg's intelligent science fiction film featuring Devil's Tower as its iconic setting. The work explores humanity's quest to contact extraterrestrial life through visual and musical communication."
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},
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"Dance, Girl, Dance": {
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"year": 1940,
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"description": "Dorothy Arzner's exploration of women in show business, following two performers pursuing careers in burlesque and ballet. The film examines tensions between art and commerce and feminist identity within entertainment."
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},
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"Dances With Wolves": {
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"year": 1990,
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"description": "Kevin Costner's personal project about a cavalry soldier's spiritual transformation through contact with a Sioux tribe. The film presents one of the more sympathetic portraits of Native-American life in American cinema."
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},
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"Days of Heaven": {
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"year": 1978,
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"description": "Described as one of the most beautiful films ever made, featuring sublime cinematography across Texas Panhandle wheat fields. The narrative depicts a doomed love triangle set within an impressionistic visual landscape."
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},
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"Glimpse of the Garden": {
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"year": 1957,
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"description": "Marie Menken's avant-garde short presenting a serendipitous visual tour of a flower garden set to a soundtrack of bird calls, representing accessible experimental filmmaking."
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},
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"Grand Hotel": {
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"year": 1932,
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"description": "Edmund Goulding's ensemble piece featuring MGM stars including Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford. The film represents the first use of the all-star formula in cinema history."
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},
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"The House I Live In": {
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"year": 1945,
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"description": "Mervyn LeRoy's short film featuring Frank Sinatra advocating religious tolerance. The work presents America's diverse cultural mosaic through Sinatra's performance of the title song."
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},
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"In a Lonely Place": {
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"year": 1950,
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"description": "Nicholas Ray's scathing Hollywood satire starring Humphrey Bogart as a screenwriter suspected of murder. The film explores the psychological deterioration of an unstable artist through noir-themed storytelling."
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},
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"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance": {
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"year": 1962,
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"description": "John Ford's final Western masterpiece examining the triumph of civilization over frontier wildness. The film's concluding aphorism—'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend'—entered the American lexicon."
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},
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"Mighty Like a Moose": {
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"year": 1926,
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"description": "Charley Chase comedy short directed by Leo McCarey. The film presents a story of homely people whose cosmetic surgeries lead to mistaken-identity comedic complications."
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},
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"The Naked City": {
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"year": 1948,
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"description": "A groundbreaking crime procedural filming on actual New York City locations rather than studio sets. It introduced a new style of film-making combining documentary realism with dramatic storytelling."
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},
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"Now, Voyager": {
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"year": 1942,
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"description": "A resonant woman's picture featuring Bette Davis transforming from a dowdy spinster into an independent, confident woman through psychiatric treatment and romantic adventure at sea."
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},
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"Oklahoma!": {
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"year": 1955,
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"description": "A Rodgers and Hammerstein musical adaptation featuring breathtaking Technicolor vistas and stereo sound. The film depicts turn-of-the-century frontier life with Western genre conventions."
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},
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"Our Day": {
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"year": 1938,
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"description": "Wallace Kelly's amateur 16mm home movie documenting his Kentucky household. This silent film demonstrates creative editing, lighting and camera techniques comparable to what professionals were doing."
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},
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"Peege": {
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"year": 1972,
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"description": "Randal Kleiser's student film depicting family members visiting their blind, dying grandmother. The grandson's emotional connection with Peege creates a renowned, extremely moving narrative experience."
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},
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"The Sex Life of the Polyp": {
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"year": 1928,
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"description": "Robert Benchley's humorous short featuring the writer as a daft doctor delivering a droll but earnest lecture on polyp reproductive habits to a women's club."
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},
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"The Strong Man": {
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"year": 1926,
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"description": "Harry Langdon silent comedy featuring the actor as a meek man loving a blind woman. This film predated similar romantic narratives by placing Langdon among The Four Silent Clowns alongside Chaplin and Keaton."
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},
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"Three Little Pigs": {
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"year": 1933,
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"description": "Walt Disney animated classic featuring personality-driven character animation. The title song 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf' became a Depression-era anthem."
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},
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"Tol'able David": {
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"year": 1921,
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"description": "Henry King's coming-of-age drama about a youth overcoming bullying neighbors while delivering mail in rural Virginia. The film influenced Russian filmmakers of the 1920s through its innovative shot composition."
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},
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"Tom, Tom the Piper's Son": {
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"year": 1969,
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"description": "Ken Jacobs's avant-garde masterpiece re-examining an early cinema fairy tale short. This structuralist film explores cinematic parameters through manipulation of motion and light."
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},
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"12 Angry Men": {
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"year": 1957,
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"description": "Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Reginald Rose's teleplay about jury deliberation in a murder trial. The film's spare, claustrophobic style dramatizes one juror's resistance to peer pressure."
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},
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"The Women": {
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"year": 1939,
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"description": "George Cukor's ensemble comedy featuring multiple female leads without male characters. Based on Clare Boothe Luce's play, it explores women's choices between independence and romantic relationships."
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},
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"Wuthering Heights": {
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"year": 1939,
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"description": "William Wyler's adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel featuring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon. Cinematographer Gregg Toland's deep-focus cinematography deftly creates the moody, ethereal atmosphere of haunted love."
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},
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}
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