National Film Registry Doing Its Job

Cheers to the Librabry of Congress' National Film Registry for really taking the cultural preservation route with this year's 25 new entries in its permanent collection.
They've cast their widest net yet, to my recollection, by including the earliest Chinese-American movie known (1916's "The Curse of Quon Gwon"), key art films by Harry Smith and Jonas Mekas, the Eskimo dance documentary "Drums of Winter," "Siege" (1940) with its rare footage of the German invasion of Poland, "St. Louis Blues" (1929) with the only film recording of Bessie Smith, and notable home ("Think of Me First as a Person") and student ("A Time Out of War") movie titles.
Some enterprising archive programmer (UCLA? LACMA?) should try to organize a mini-festival of these and the Registry's other little-known 2006 picks. That part of the pack reads as invaluable for film lovers and historians; so let's se 'em, already.
As for the commercially released choices, not a bad bunch either. From "Traffic in Souls" (1913) to "sex, lies, and videotape" (1989) and "Fargo" (1996), pretty much all artistically, culturally or historically significant entries. Even if you've got to scratch your head a little over what "Halloween" is doing in there, there's no denying that John Carpenter's splatterfest influenced a field of horror so huge, subgenre seems like too limited a term to describe it.
One thing, though. If the LOC was sentimental enough to cap Sylvester Stallone's last hurrah year by mentioning his Oscar-winning, original "Rocky," why not include something by the late Robert Altman too? I can't believe all of his half-dozen flat-out masterpieces have made the Registry's 450 title list yet.