At the end of each year, the united states national film protection agency selects indigenous films to be treated as national cultural works that are permanently stored in the library of the congress of the united states to assist it in its life cycle。
The list of 25 american films that have been honoured this year has also come out in recent days, including many of our well-known commercial films of the 1990s, such as " kid head" "ender 2" and "apolo 13" , and the selection of "geleon" by lee, as well as a documentary about american-chinese architects, " lin zing: strong and clear insight" , have also been included, resulting in many asian elements on this year's film。
Dinner poster
The evaluation criteria for so-called united states national treasure films are the historical, cultural and aesthetic significance of the work, which is selected by the director of the library of the united states congress in conjunction with the relevant expert groups; the list is open to popular vote and allows the public to nominate itself on its website. It was described that more than 6,800 films had been nominated by the public this year and that the 25 works had eventually been selected over a period of over 90 years, from 1921 to 2013。
Of these 25 works, the holiday comedy by chris columbus, child head, and the landmark feature by james cameron, terminator 2: trial day, are popular works that, after more than 30 years of showing, still seem attractive。
The kid header poster
In addition, tim bolton's animated film, christmas night wreck, was included in the list this year - the real behind-the-scenes is the director henry selick, who later directed outstanding animations like james and peach, mother of the ghost, but tim bolton's personal style of christmas night wrestling is so obvious that it is often seen directly by the outside world as bolton's work. As a matter of fact, tim bolton's own film is still not on the united states list。
By contrast, director speicher lee, one year older than tim bolton, was preferred by the united states congress library's selective panel to count this year's final edition of the conundrum, which now has five works of " what should be " , " the stabilized winners " and " four girls " 。
However, the united states television community's appearance of “mixed”, which began in the autumn of 2000 with an immediate failure to gain the praise of the film critic, is all the more confusing. However, with the rise of racial tensions in the united states in recent years, many of spike lee’s old work, which directly touched on the issue, has gained a great deal of relevance and has been turned back by a new generation of viewers, who have received a fresh assessment。
It's worth mentioning that spike lee was also elected to the national treasure card this time as a romantic film producer, love and basketball. The film was the first of a long film by gina prince-baswood and, according to the director himself, the black version of "when harry meets sally." as a relatively rare black female director in hollywood, gina prince-baswood’s career in recent years has also been good, with the emergence of different kinds of works, such as the guardians of life and the warriors of daahaw, and the fact that she is now elected to the united states national treasure, as well as her recognition and encouragement。
Indeed, the selection of films of national treasures is deliberately biased towards african, asian and latin american filmmakers, breaking the long-standing mono-white narrative of hollywood, which has been the practice of the national film protection agency in recent years. African filmmakers, asian directors who used to be famous in the united states film industry, are far more numerous than african filmmakers. As a result, 35 years have passed since the united states national treasure film was chosen, and only two feature films from wang wing's heifeng club and search for man were included, along with a documentary by sea-born american director choi myung hye, who killed chen goe-in, also received an income list in 2021。
By this year, asian filmmakers had done much more than they had done in 25 top films. In addition to what we know very well, the name of the documentary film, foresty: strong and clear insight. The film, which was led by chinese director freda lee moque, tells the life story of the american chinese architect lin zhen, who received the oscar best documentary award in 1995。
In addition, the community known as little tokyo in los angeles in the 1970s was active in a jazz band called hiroshima, and the documentary film by japanese director duane kubo, " little tokyo " , was selected. There is also a family film about the life of the filipino community in california, which is also protected by its historical and cultural values。
Compared to the list of previous years, this year's selections for early silent films are relatively small, with the first documentary film ever produced in 1921, " the secret of the film " . A short 22-minute silent short film describes the early film production process. The most recent works of the production year that was selected this year were the twelve years of slavery and twenty fice feet to the big star, which were released only in 2013 and are required to be released for more than 10 years in order to be eligible for the national treasure。
Despite the fact that director spike lee has five works on the list, which is a remarkable achievement, there is still a huge gap compared to 11 of the current top-ranked director john ford, and it is feared that it will be extremely difficult for director li, who is now over the page, to catch up. Interestingly, spike lee has been dissatisfied with john ford's history, and has repeatedly publicly expressed his displeasure at this former figure, as well as those of his white-minded cowboy films, which are hostile to the indians. After john ford in the director's list of numbers, george cook was the same man as him. This year, he has another comedy film, " dinner " , with a total of 10 scores, second in line with howard hawks and william wyler。
As of this year, 875 films have been included in the protection of the united states since the creation of the film protection authority in 1988 and the first agreed list of protected films in 1989。
Full list of selected works in 2023 (in chronological order)
1. Movie discovery (a movie trip through filmland, 1921)
Dinner at eight, 1933
3. Bohulano family film collection, 1950s-70s
Helen keller in her story, 1954
Lady and the tramp, 1955
Edge of the city, 1957
We're alive, 1974
8. Cruisin ' j-town, 1975
Alambrista
10. Passing through, 1977
11. Fame, 1980
12. Desperately seeing susan, 1985
13. The lighted field, 1987
Front de résistance (matewan, 1987)
Home alone 1990
16. Queen of diamonds, 1991
Terminator 2: judgement day, 1991
18. The nightmare before christmas, 1993
19. The wedding banquet, 1993
20. Lin: a strong clear vision, 1994
21. Apollo 13 (apollo 13, 1995)
22. Confusion (bamboozled, 2000)
Love and basketball (love & basketball, 2000)
24. Twelve years of slavery (twelve years a slave, 2013)
25. Twenty ficet from stardom, 2013
