The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress has announced the annual selection of 25 titles for induction. But just like the days when you procrastinated and failed to return your VHS rentals to your local Blockbuster by their due date, thus incurring those pesky fees, many of the choices are a bit tardy.
Among the titles on the December 2018 list are such classics as Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), Disney’s animated Cinderella (1950), Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (1993) and James L. Brooks’ Broadcast News (1987).
Classic rock is represented with D.A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop from 1968. The film documented the legendary 1967 music festival which featured iconic performances by The Who, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, the Byrds, and Simon and Garfunkel, among many others.
Watch The Who perform “My Generation” at the Monterey Pop Festival
“It was for us a vast undertaking,” Pennebaker said in the announcement. “We were using all five of our homemade cameras, some with twelve hundred foot reels we’d never tried before, praying they’d all work, and that it turned out as wonderful as it did I can still scarcely believe.”
Related: Monterey Pop Festival – 10 killer performances
Also of note: the 1949 musical, On the Town, which starred Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin as three sailors on shore leave in New York City. Check out the full list of 2018 inductees here.
Kubrick’s The Shining, based on the Stephen King novel, starred Jack Nicholson as an off-season caretaker of a Colorado resort who hopes to use the time in isolation to write a book. Things don’t go exactly as planned.
Related: Nicholson in the Five Easy Pieces diner scene
Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, each year the Librarian of Congress names to the National Film Registry 25 motion pictures that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant. The films must be at least 10 years old.
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