Wednesday, December 19, 2012

ROLL THE GARBAGE:  Many of the films in this year's batch for the National Film Registry are in there for technical reasons (early use of color photography, most notably), but there are also things you would have thought were in already (Anatomy of A Murder, Born Yesterday), a few more contemporary (The Matrix, Slacker, A League of Their Own), and perhaps most deservingly--They Call It Pro Football, the first film from what became NFL Films.  The Atlantic earlier this year had a nice and fascinating longread on just how much They Call It Pro Football changed the game, which is well worth your time.
Posted by Matt at 10:49 AM

5 comments:

  1. Carrie12:06 PM

    Thanks, Matt for linking to the piece on NFL Football. The one time I visited NFL Films it felt like what MGM studios must have felt like in its heyday. Which other studio makes 16 films every week for 16 weeks?

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  2. Marsha12:21 PM

    Anatomy of a Murder, as everyone here probably knows by now, is my favorite movie. It should be on the Registry for the opening Saul Bass titles alone.

    Kate was kind enough to send me this, which all AoaM fans should see: http://sbmblog.typepad.com/sbm-blog/2012/12/your-chance-to-fund-anatomy-of-anatomy.html

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  3. Tina6:58 PM

    That is excellent. Thanks for posting it.

    How's the Criterion edition of AoaM? Worth the upgrade?

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  4. David Benner8:01 PM

    The tributes to the late Steve Sabol noted the influence of NFL films. I was most struck by -- and related to -- Tom Brady, I think it was, talking about how he played backyard football in slow motion, entirely because of NFL films.

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  5. Joseph Finn11:59 PM

    I actually teared up a bit seeing it was included. Steve Sabol and his compatriots kind of created how to film sports in a modern way and deserves every bit of acclaim they can get.

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