THESE AMAZING SHADOWS - BLU-DOCUMENTARY (PBS)

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• Release Year: 2011
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed 'culturally, historically or aesthetically significant' by the Library of Congress and listed on The National Film Registry. THESE AMAZING SHADOWS, an 88-minute documentary, tells the history and importance of the Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself. The current list of 550 films includes selections from every genre - documentaries, home movies, Hollywood classics, avant-garde, newsreels and silent films. These Amazing Shadows reveals how 'American movies tell us so much about ourselves... not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we aspired to, and the lies we told ourselves.' ; ;
• Cast: Jeff Adachi, James H. Billington, Robin Blaetz, Brooks Boliek, Charles Burnett, Jay Carr, Martin Cohen, Peter Coyote, Arlene Damron, Julie Dash, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel, Zooey Deschanel, Kristine Fong, Robert A. Harris, Amy Heckerling, Jan-Christopher Horak, Jennifer Horne, Gale Anne Hurd, Steve James, Mick LaSalle, John Lasseter, Stephen Leggett, Heather Linville, Patrick Loughney, John Magary, Leonard Maltin, Roger Mayer, Farran Smith Nehme, Christopher Nolan, Stephen Peck, Jennifer Phang, Rick Prelinger, John Ptak, Rob Reiner, Del Reisman, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Rosen, Tim Roth, James Schamus, Paul Schrader, Eric J. Schwartz, John Singleton, Anthony Slide, Michael Smith, Shelley Stamp, Liz Stanley, George Takei, Wayne Wang, John Waters, George R. Willeman, Jan Yarbrough, Kevin Yost, Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton, Douglas Blush
• Director: Paul Mariano
• Runtime: 1:28
• Company: PBS Home Video, Gravitas Docufilms
• Media Format: Movie