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‘Social Network,’ ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ and ‘Dirty Dancing’ Among Movies Added to National Film Registry
"The Social Network," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Dirty Dancing" have been selected for preservation by the National Film Registry.
David Fincher’s 2010 Facebook drama “,” 1974’s indie horror classic “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ” and Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey’s Catskills-set love affair “Dirty Dancing” have been selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. “The Social Network,” starring Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, has only become timelier in the ensuing decade and a half, but the movie’s Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin told the Library of Congress that he didn’t realize he was working on one of the defining films of the internet age. Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1895) KoKo’s Earth Control (1928) Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) Pride of the Yankees (1942) Invaders from Mars (1953) The Miracle Worker (1962) The Chelsea Girls (1966) Ganja and Hess (1973) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Uptown Saturday Night (1974) Zora Lathan Student Films (1975-76) Up in Smoke (1978) Will (1981) Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (1982) Beverly Hills Cop (1984) Dirty Dancing (1987) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) Powwow Highway (1989) My Own Private Idaho (1991) American Me (1992) Mi Familia (1995) Compensation (1999) Spy Kids (2001) No Country for Old Men (2007) The Social Network (2010)
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