Every year 25 films are entered into the US National Film Registry for preservation.
Jennifer and Neil talk about the films they like and about the United States National Film Registry. Every year it adds about twenty-five titles to its list. The selected films are all of lasting cultural, historical and aesthetic importance.
This week's question: Taking into account inflation, which film has made more money than any other in the history of cinema? Is it:
a) Avatar
b) Gone with the Wind
c) Titanic
Listen out for the answer at the end of the programme!
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US National Film Registry
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Vocabulary
- a film buff
a person who is very interested in films and knows a lot about them
- art-house
films which are made by small companies and are not usually seen by a wide audience
- blockbuster
a very successful film financially
- aesthetic
concerned with beauty and art and the understanding of beautiful things
- orphaned
made parentless through death
- grief
a feeling of great sadness, especially when somebody dies
- for posterity
for all the people who will live in the future
