The National Film Registry adds 25 new films...

...and they are the following:

• "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975)

• "The Exiles" (1961)

• "Heroes All" (1920)

• "Hot Dogs for Gauguin" (1972)

• "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957)

• "Jezebel" (1938)

• "The Jungle" (1967)

• "The Lead Shoes" (1949)

• "Little Nemo" (1911)

• "Mabel's Blunder" (1914)

• "The Mark of Zorro" (1940)

• "Mrs. Miniver" (1942)

• "The Muppet Movie" (1979)

• "Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968)

• "Pillow Talk" (1959)

• "Precious Images" (1986)

• "Quasi at the Quackadero" (1975)

• "The Red Book" (1994)

• "The Revenge of the Pancho Villa" (1930-36)

• "Scratch and Crow" (1995)

• "Stark Love" (1927)

• "The Story of G.I. Joe" (1945)

• "A Study in Reds" (1932)

• "Thriller" (1983)

• "Under Western Stars" (1938)

-Thoughts?

What's your favorite movie really about?

While taking what time we could between watching movies and courting beautiful women to browse the Internet earlier today, Joey and I happened to come across a fun little post over at postmodernbarney.com, a website I've never frequented but was linked to via IMDb. For all you movie enthusiasts (which I'm assuming if you're reading this includes you), they've put up a stripped down, almost uncomfortably accurate series of one-sentence summaries for various films, TV shows, and comics. Our personal favorites are Lord of the Rings, Lars and the Real Girl, and W.

Check it out here, and let us know your favorites.

New Sheriff in Town?

Simple question:

Will the Dark Knight finally be supplanted in the box office by Pineapple Express or some other film coming out this weekend?

Holy crap! RoboCob is returning...

I'm not sure about you, but the prospects of a new RoboCop movie makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. I loved these films growing up (first one in particular), and it looks like Darren Aronofsky and David Self are the likely candidates to help reboot the franchise.

Brett Ratner's film version of "The Road"

Let's hope the Road is not made in a similar grain. (*plot spoiler*)

Christian Bale as Robin Hood?

Looks like Christian Bale is set to play another archetypal hero. According to Mail Online, Christian Bale is in talks with Ridley Scott to play Robin Hood. Also, Russell Crowe is already part of the film, so this will pair Crowe and Bale one more time! If you have not seen 3:10 to Yuma (2007), then you missed a great movie last year (go rent it!).


Source: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=46191

Tony Stark is tearing up the Box Office

Iron Man is the first movie of 2008 to cross the 300 Million dollar threshold (in the US). Congrats to Robert Downey and the rest of the Iron Man cast!

Speaking of Robert Downey, guess who wants him to don his pajamas in a biopic?

Source: http://www.comingsoon.net/

YouTube shows love to Indie Film Makers

This is pretty dope. YouTube is setting up a screening room for indie film makers. They're going to show four new films a week. I'll keep you guys updated as more develops from this...

Kelly's 100 Films - # 100: CITY LIGHTS (1931)

Writer/Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Meyers, Florence Lee, Al Ernest Garcia, Hank Mann.

Summary: Charmingly simple story of The Little Tramp who meets a lovely blind girl selling flowers on the sidewalk who mistakes him for a wealthy duke.

When he learns that an operation may restore her sight, he sets off to earn the money she needs to have the surgery.

In a series of comedy adventures that only Chaplin could pull off, he eventually succeeds, even though his efforts land him in jail. While he is there, the girl has the operation and afterwards yearns to meet her benefactor. The tear-inducing closing scene, in which she discovers that he is not a wealthy duke but only The Little Tramp, is one of the highest moments in movies.

My Thoughts:

In doing my research on what exactly I should write about, I stumbled upon a Charlie Chaplin website-subpage devoted to City Lights (1931). I thought that this page said more about this particular film than I could ever possibly think to write. So, click here if you wish to explore Chaplin's City Lights a bit more or go directly to his website:

http://www.charliechaplin.com/

From the TIME Magazine Archive:
"Chaplin does not reject the sound-device because he does not think his voice will register. His objection is that cinema is essentially a pantomimic art"
—Feb. 9, 1931