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Stuber joins directors Zooey Deschanel, Martin Scorsese, Alfre Woodard and Larry Karaszewski, among others, in the organization dedicated to saving America s film heritage.
Scott Stuber, Netflix’s head of global film, has joined the board of directors of the National Film Preservation Foundation.
The NFPF is the nonprofit organization created by Congress dedicated to saving America s film heritage. Stuber’s posting is a four-year appointment, made by the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden.
The Netflix executive now joins members Grover Crisp and Eric J. Schwartz , chair and vice chair respectively, as well as Cecilia deMille Presley, Zooey Deschanel, Robert G. Rehme, Leonard Maltin, Scott M. Martin, Martin Scorsese, John Ptak, Alfre Woodard, Larry Karaszewski and Hayden.
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A scene from the Oscar-winning film, “The Hurt Locker.” The film is one of 25 selected for preservation by the Library of Congress. (Courtesy of Lionsgate)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. As filming was underway in Amman, Jordan, Tony Mark knew there was something special about “The Hurt Locker.”
“No one thought that we were making a masterpiece,” Mark said. “It was a really good script. When (director) Kathryn (Bigelow) made her first cut, you knew right then, it wasn’t your average movie.”
Mark, a Santa Fe resident, served as an executive producer and unit production manager for the Oscar-winning 2008 film.
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The film, set during the Iraq War, tells the story of a sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
The climatic pie fight from “Battle of the Century,” with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in the middle of the action. Hal Roach Studios.
“The Battle of the Century,” Laurel and Hardy’s 1927 silent short film, famed for its epic pie-in-the-face fight sequence, quickly disappeared after its theatrical release.
The 20-minute, two-reel bit of comic relief in the latter days of the Roaring Twenties got left behind in the rush to talkies, as did most silent films. The last known surviving copy of its famed second reel was considered lost for good by the 1960s. It seemed to be a flickering bit of entertainment lost to time, disintegrating film stock and a too-late appreciation of an outdated art form. Slate magazine once described the missing second reel, containing most of the pie-fight sequence, as “one of the most deeply mourned lost treasures in film history.”
Dark Knight, Shrek, Blues Brothers and more added to National Film Registry
December 14, 2020 by:
Every year, the National Film Registry inducts films that represent the best that cinema has to offer. Over the years, their library has included some of the most iconic motion pictures of all time. 2020 is no different with a list of inductees that includes everything from a DC Comics superhero to a green ogre.
Joining the registry this year are films such as
A Clockwork Orange (1971),
Shrek (2001),
“This is not only a great honor for all of us who worked on ‘The Dark Knight, but’ this is also a tribute to all of the amazing artists and writers who have worked on the great mythology of Batman over the decades,” said Christopher Nolan, director of