Pull My Daisy

This adroit parody of The Beat Generation was written by the man who invented the '50s zeitgeist: Jack Kerouac. Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's nonsense comedy blends improvisation and careful construction so well that more than a few serious commentators took the film for pure slice-of-life naturalism — and were properly offended.

Pull My Daisy was added to the National Film Registry in 1996.