I love that we have a National Film Registry that preserves films for historical purposes. What I love even more is that their knowledge of film is clearly on a level I wouldn’t have expected.
The Library of Congress has added 25 new titles to their National Film Registry, one of which is the Spanish version of the 1931 Dracula, which featured an entirely different cast, shot parallel to the Bela Lugosi-starrer we all know and love.
George Melford directed this alternate version that some consider better than its English-language brother.Carlos Villarías stars as Conde Drácula (as Carlos Villar).
The other genre film added to the Registry needs no introduction: Ivan Reitman’s 1984 Ghostbusters, starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Ernie Hudson, and Sigourney Weaver.
Other major films include L.A. Confidential, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mark of Zorro, oh, yeah, and mother-fuckin’ Top Gun. See full list below.
- Being There (1979)
- Black and Tan (1929)
- Dracula (Spanish) (1931)
- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906)
- Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)
- Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (1894)
- A Fool There Was (1915)
- Ghostbusters (1984)
- Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
- Humoresque (1920)
- Imitation of Life (1959)
- The Inner World of Aphasia (1968)
- John Henry and the Inky-Poo (1946)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- The Mark of Zorro (1920)
- The Old Mill (1937)
- Our Daily Bread (1934)
- Portrait of Jason (1967)
- Seconds (1966)
- The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
- Sink or Swim (1990)
- The Story of Menstruation (1946)
- Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
- Top Gun (1986)
- Winchester ’73 (1950)
