These Amazing Shadows: The Movies That Make America (AV Product) DVD

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Description

• Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.
  
  What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress and listed on The National Film Registry. THESE AMAZING SHADOWS, an 88-minute documentary, tells the history and importance of the Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself. The current list of 550 films includes selections from every genre - documentaries, home movies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, newsreels and silent films. These Amazing Shadows reveals how "American movies tell us so much about ourselves... not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we aspired to, and the lies we told ourselves." 
  
  Notable Interviews
  Rob Reiner [This is Spinal Tap]
  John Waters [Hairspray]
  Barbara Kopple [Harlan County, USA]
  John Lasseter [Toy Story]
  Gale Anne Hurd [The Terminator]
  George Takei [Star Trek: The Motion Picture]
  Julie Dash [Daughters of the Dust]
  Leonard Maltin [author and critic]
  John Singleton [Boyz n the Hood]
  Wayne Wang [Chan is Missing]
  Mick LaSalle [author and critic]
  Tim Roth [Lie to Me]
  Debbie Reynolds [Singin' in the Rain]
  James Schamus [Brokeback Mountain]
  Peter Coyote [E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial]
  Steve James [Hoop Dreams]
  Amy Heckerling [Fast Times at Ridgemont High], and
  Dr. James H. Billington, The Librarian of Congress
  
  Special Features include...
  Lost Forever, a look at film preservation, restoration, and more
  Live from Prague: Recording the Score
  These Amazing Shadows at Sundance
  Outtakes
  Alternate and Deleted Scenes
  
  This DVD features subtitles in English (SDH)