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Empire Strikes Back deemed "culturally significant" 29 Dec, 2010 / 2 comments

The National Film Registry, that one thing Congress is good for, announced the twenty five films it has selected for inclusion for the year 2010. Of the list of inductees, the one that seems to be headlining all of today's news write-ups is none other than the very first talkie - I speak of course of the German expressionistic masterpiece The Empire Strikes Back. Who could forget the pulse-pounding sequence where the shark is blown up with a tank of compressed air?

You can see the whole list here, although I think it's easy to see why Empire, which boasts arguably Bogart's greatest performance, is getting all the attention.

Source: Library of Congress

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    Huz on 30 Dec, 2010, 17:26…

    Jeroen_JRP

    Airplane! :D

    Surely you can't be serious.
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    Jeroen_JRP on 29 Dec, 2010, 10:13…
    Airplane! :D

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