2023 NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY

Some of the twenty-five films selected for this year's National Film Registry includes the Disney animated classic, "Lady and the Tramp" about the romance between two dogs; Ang Lee's charming, queer-centered rom-com, "The Wedding Banquet"; "Desperately Seeking Susan", Susan Seidelman's edgy NYC romantic-comedy that introduced Madonna, a rising pop star at the time, in her first major film role; George Cukor's all-star, pre-code comedy, "Dinner at Eight", based on the popular play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Farber, about a wealthy family preparing a society dinner; "Apollo 13" which recounts the disastrous space mission on the fifth US trip to the moon from Ron Howard; the beloved holiday classic, "Home Alone" with Macaulay Culkin as a young boy who is accidently left behind on a family vacation; "Bamboozled", Spike Lee's controversial satire on the creation of a modern television minstrel show; the musical-drama, "Fame" which focuses on the students that attend the high school of performing arts in Manhattan (and one of my all-time favorite movies); "Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision" is a documentary on the artist behind the Vietnam Memorial in Washington DC; and the Best Picture Oscar winner, "12 Years a Slave", Steve McQueen's harrowing yet deeply moving drama about a free African-American sold into slavery.

The Library of Congress has added these movies this year to the National Film Registry which recognizes their artistic significance while helping to ensure their preservation for generations to come. These films, which must be at least ten years old, have been named because of their cultural, historic or aesthetic importance and with these selections brings the number of films in the registry to 875.

Here is the complete list of the films selected to the 2023 National Film Registry:

"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 Through"(1977)
"Fame"(1980)



"Desperately Seeking Susan"(1985)



"The Lighted Field" (1987)
"Matewan" (1987)



"Home Alone" (1990)
"Queen of Diamonds" (1991)
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991)
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993)
"The Wedding Banquet" (1993)
"Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision" (1994)



"Apollo 13" (1995)
"Bamboozled" (2000)



"Love & Basketball" (2000)
"12 Years a Slave" (2013)
"20 Feet From Stardom" (2013)