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Registry - A Podcast
by Klaus at Gunpoint
Chris Garcia looks at the National Film Registry, both the films that populate it, and the ones that should be listed!
Episodes
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S2E23 - The 2025 National Film Registry inductees!
Episode Notes Full descrptions from the Library of Congress “The Tramp and the Dog” (1896) "The Tramp and the Dog," a silent film from Chicago's Selig Polyscope Company, is considered director William Selig's most popular early work. Filmed in Rogers Park, it is recognized as the first commercial...
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S2E22 - 2025 National Recording Registry
Episode Notes https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-recording-preservation-board/recording-registry/registry-by-induction-years/2025/ Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E21 - Our Lady of the Sphere
Episode Notes I Sources & Further Reading: Jordan, Lawrence. The Lady of the Spheres (1972). P. Adams Sitney, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde, 1943-2000. Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema. Find out more at...
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S2E20 - The National Recording Registry 2024
The 2024 National Recording Registry “Clarinet Marmalade” – Lt. James Reese Europe’s 369th U.S. Infantry Band (1919) “Kauhavan Polkka” – Viola Turpeinen and John Rosendahl (1928) Wisconsin Folksong Collection (1937-1946) “Rose Room” – Benny Goodman Sextet with Charlie Christian (1939) “Rudolph…
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S2E19 - The 2023 National Film Registry
The 2023 National Film Registry list A Movie Trip Through Filmland (1921) Dinner at Eight (1933) Bohulano Family Film Collection (1950s-1970s) Helen Keller: In Her Story (1954) Lady and the Tramp (1955) Edge of the City (1957) We’re Alive (1974) Cruisin' J-Town (1975) ¡Alambrista! (1977) Passing...
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S2E17 - Beetlejuice
Episode Notes Our Patreon! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E16 - Groundhog's Day
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S2E15 - The Human Comedy
Episode Notes More on Saroyan Our Patreon Auto-Generated Transcript Registry-The Human Comedy Fri, 8/12 11:53AM • 6:32 SUMMARY KEYWORDS film, presents, story, family, script, ithaca, andy hardy, focused, work, star, great, comedy, james cagney, telegraph office, incredibly, deserved, dialoguing,...
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S2E14 - Body Heat
Episode Notes A classic neo-Noir film starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner, it's a masterful example of how blocking sets mood in a genre that is known for lighting. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E13 - 2022 National Recording Registry
Episode Notes The listing A sampler Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E12 - 2021 National Film Registry
Episode Notes The Full List 2021nationalfilmregistry libraryofcongress nationalfilmregistry film filmhistory StopMakingSense Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E11 - The Breakfast Club
Episode Notes The Breakfast Club is arguably John Hughes most important, and best, film. Released in 1985, the poster was created from an Annie Leibowitz photograph and is an iconic image of teen films, referenced through to today. Comments or questions - [email protected] film…
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S2E10 - 13 Lakes
Episode Notes 13 Lakes Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E8 - The Blues Brothers
Episode Notes Roger Ebert's masterful review Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E7 - The Blair Witch Project
Episode Notes The original website Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E6 - 2020 National Film Registry!
The 2020 National Film Registry list Suspense (1913) Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) Bread (1918) The Battle of the Century (1927) With Car and Camera Around the World (1929) Cabin in the Sky (1943) Outrage (1950) The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Lilies of the Field (1963) A Clockwork Orange...
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S2E5 - Ben Hur - 1925
Episode Notes There are two Ben Hurs on the Registry! This one, starring Ramon Navaro, is a masterful piece of spectular viewing! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E4 - Cabin in the Sky
Episode Notes One of the most wonderful and aesthetically-awesome pictures to come out during World War II, and one that isn't on the Registry, which annoys me! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E3 - (nostalgia) by Hollis Frampton
Episode Notes An amazing thought piece that looks at concepts of memory, description, image, destruction, and much much more. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S2E2 - Dear Zachary by Kurt Kuenne
Episode Notes Kurt Kuenne set out to make a film to introduce a son to the father he would never know. Tragedy brought what had been meant as a personal work into wide-release and ended up changing Canadian law. For more info - http://dearzachary.com/ Find out more at...
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S2E1 - Magical Maestro by Tex Avery
Episode Notes Tex Avery had a massive impact on the history of American Animation, and this film, added to the Registry in 1993, is one of his most fun and wonderful... but also plays with racist stereotypes that are always jarring. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E70 - Fuentes Home Movies
Episode Notes An excellent document of the Mexican American Experience! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E69 - It's an OK Life
Episode Notes Kinda problematic, but really thoughtful work from 1980 Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E67 - With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain
Episode Notes More than 3,000 Americans signed up to ship out to Spain to fight Franco's forces in the Spanish Civil War, the training ground for the fascists itching to get to World War II! This film is an excellent document of the group whose number of survivors are now 0... Find out more at...
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S1E66 - A League of Their Own
Episode Notes There are a lot of folks I love in this one, from David Strathairn and Lori Petty to Geena Davis and Madonna, but there's that old Gary Marshall making me annoyed at many turns! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E65 - Hell's Hinges
Episode Notes William S. Hart's masterpiece, one of the finest silent westerns ever made and an excellent example of what you could do when you were a big time producer with a solid vision. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E64 - The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair
Episode Notes A Robot! Wonderful technological marvels! A fair! Kids! It's a wonderful industrial film that was supporting the US powerhouse Westinghouse in 1939! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E63 - Fake Fruit Factory
Episode Notes An amazing piece of avant garde cinema that takes itself exactly as seriously as every film should! Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E62 - Stop Making Sense
Episode Notes Johnathan Demme's minimalist masterpiece is the essence of the Talking Heads boiled down to a two hour film. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E61 - It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Episode Notes A look at Stanley Kramer's exceptional screwball comedy. Find out more at https://registry-a-podcast.pinecast.co
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S1E60 - The 2019 National Film Registry
Episode Notes The 2019 National Film Registry was announced in Decemeber, but I'm only now able to talk about it! Women Directors are around! There's some classics that I thought were already on! And more Complete List Amadeus 1984 Becky Sharp 1935 Before Stonewall 1984 Body and Soul 1925 Boys...
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S1E59 - Notes on the Circus
The death of Jonas Mekas reminds me that this is a film that must be on the Registry!
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S1E58 - National Film Registry 2018 - Hair Piece
A look at what is pretty much the only even vaguely avant garde piece included on the 2018 Registry and a fine work looking at African-American ideas of beauty.
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S1E57 - National Film Registry 2018 - Brokeback Mountain
A look at one of the finest films of the last twenty years. From acting to script to direction to impact, Brokeback is a film that 100% belongs on the Registry.
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S1E56 - Registry - Something Good
The first of our looks at the 2018 entries to the National Film Registry, we look at Something Good - Negro Kiss, a 1898 film that is one of the most joyous 26 seconds you'll ever see!
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S1E55 - Mean Girls
A look at one of the best and most important of all Teen FIlms
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S1E54 - Chicago
A look at the starting point for all 21st Century Musicals
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S1E53 - 2008
2008 Films are now eligible for the Registry, but will any make it on the first ballot?
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S1E52 - 1980 - The Metaphor
King Vidor! Andrew Wyeth! A Short Documentary!!!!!
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S1E51 - 1980 - Swiss Army Knife with Rats and Pidgeons
A look at Robert Breer's masterful abstract animation!
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S1E50 - 1980 - Kojack/Wang
A look at 1980 Avant Garde!
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S1E49 - 1980 - Lucifer Rising
It's a masterpiece of American Avant Garde cinema, and a film with a story of ebb and flow and how you SHOULDN'T make a movie. Lucifer Rising was one of the most important films of 1980 that's not on the National Film Registry!
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S1E48 - 1980 - Popeye
Our look at the Year 1980 and all the National Film Registry worthy films that aren't on continues with Robert Altman's Popeye, a musical that explores both a fantastical comic strip world and Altman's own cinematic signatures!
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S1E47 - 1980 - Friday the 13th
We begin our look at the amazing cinematic year that was 1980 with a consideration of Friday the 13th. Yes, it was the beginning of a massively important franchise that also didn't quite fit what the franchise would become. We look at the reasons it should be on the National Film Registry, what…
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S1E46 - Traffic
A look at a notable film not on the Registry
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S1E45 - The Works of John Waters
How should the Registry recognise the work of the legendary director John Waters? In this episode, I examine the possibility of four films that might be worthy - Pink Flamingoes, Female Troubles, Hairspray, and Cecil B. Demented.
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S1E44 - Field of Dreams
A Fantasy Film 101 cross-over talking about the 2017 Registry addition Field of Dreams!
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Chris Garcia looks at the National Film Registry, both the films that populate it, and the ones that should be listed!
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Registry - A Podcast is created and hosted by Klaus at Gunpoint.
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