This Week on DVD and Blu-ray: January 11, 2011

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Here are some of the DVD and Blu-ray options available this week:

• All in the Family: DVD, Blu-ray
• Army of Shadows: Blu-ray
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: Volume 1
• Dances with Wolves (20th Anniv. Edition): DVD, Blu-ray
• The Endless Summer: Blu-ray
• The Great Debaters: Blu-ray
• Once Upon a Time in America: DVD
• Pirahna: DVD, Blu-ray
• Raging Bull (30th Anniversary Edition): Blu-ray
• The Social Network: DVD, Blu-ray
• Sordid Lives: Complete Series

Make sure to also check out the TV-on-DVD options for this week.

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More Films Preserved in National Registry

Posted by Veronica Santiago Categories: Action, Adaptation, Animation, Classics, Drama, Music, Musicals, Period, Romance, Science Fiction, Comedy, Thrillers, Awards, Lists,

The Library of Congress just announced its 2007 selections for the National Film Registry. The honor - bestowed on 25 American films each year - can be given to any picture, regardless of age.  Those placed on the list will then be preserved for all time because they are deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.  In total, 475 movies have earned this achievement.

The entries this year include:

• Back to the Future (1985)
• Bullitt (1968)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
• Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)
• Dances With Wolves (1990)
• Days of Heaven (1978)
• Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
• Grand Hotel (1932)
• The House I Live In (1945)
• In a Lonely Place (1950)
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
• Mighty Like a Moose (1926)
• The Naked City (1948)
• Now, Voyager (1942)
• Oklahoma! (1955)

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