It always amazes me to find out what films haven't already been put in the Registry. Here's two that should have already been put in there. I haven't looked, but Star Wars better be in there.
From scifi.com:
"Encounters Added To Registry
Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Bob Zemeckis' Back to the Future were among the 25 classic American films added by the Library of Congress to its national registry. The films are chosen because they are "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant, the library said in its announcement.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) was called an intelligent SF film in which the climactic scene is set at Devil's Tower National Monument in Wyoming.
Back to the Future (1985) is a time-travel comedy/drama in which a youth, played by Michael J. Fox, finds himself stranded in 1955 and must teach his father how to become a man, repair the space/time continuum and save his family from being erased from existence.
The selections were made as part of a program aimed at preserving the nation's movie heritage. Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act of 1992, each year the Librarian of Congress, with advice from the National Film Preservation Board, names 25 films to the National Film Registry to be preserved for all time. This year's selections bring to 475 the number of motion pictures in the registry."
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