Terminator And Deliverance Officially Preserved

By Rafe Telsch: 2008-12-30 22:36:18

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Terminator And Deliverance Officially Preserved

What do Truman Capote, Buster Keaton, Ernest Hemingway, and Arnold Schwarzenegger have in common? They all have some involvement in movies that were added to the National Film Registry this year, to be archived as part of the National Film Preservation Act. The 2008 list was announced this week, and includes a varied group of films, including a home movie from 1956 and James Cameron’s science-fiction classic, The Terminator.

While Schwarzenegger’s blockbuster film definitely stands out in the group, it’s not the only movie recognized for its special effects. The horror classic The Invisible Man with Claude Rains and The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, notable for Ray Harryhausen’s work, both are added to the registry this year as well.

Not everything is sci-fi and special effects though. Several of the movies added come from literary roots, like The Killers, based on a short story by Hemingway, or In Cold Blood, adapted from Capote’s well known novel.

And in the middle of it all is a movie that stands out even more than The Terminator: Burt Reynolds’s Deliverance. In their listing of the movies, Variety refers to it as an Appalachian “Heart of Darkness.” While I’ll admit the film certainly has merit worth remembering, I don’t think I ever imagined it being added to the Library of Congress’s registry.

Here’s a chronological listing of the movies added to the registry this year. For a more in-depth description of each film, head over to Variety, who has a pretty comprehensive listing.

White Fawn's Devotion (1910)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
One Week (1920)
Foolish Wives (1922)
So's Your Old Man (1926)
Hallelujah (1929)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Sergeant York (1941)
George Stevens World War II Footage (1943-46)
The Killers (1946)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Disneyland Dream (1956)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
On the Bowery (1957)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
Flower Drum Song (1961)
The March (1964)
The Pawnbroker (1965)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Deliverance (1972)
No Lies (1973)
Free Radicals (1979)
The Terminator (1984)
Water and Power (1989)

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