2014 Films Preserved in the Library of Congress

[jgiffin]

You might recognize a little flick we banter about on this here board from time to time.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/library-of-congress-likes-rosemarys-baby-and-the-big-lebowski/?_r=0

[The Daryl]

That's far out, man.

I always wonder what the yardstick is (you know, to measure what films are important enough to warrant a protectection of "a crucial element of American creativity, culture and history").

A worthy achievement, none-the-less.

[BikerDude]

It's never these sort of movies you have to worry about.
Well the Big L maybe but it's had a resurgence.

It's the fringe movies that become a time capsule when resurrected later.
The Ed Wood movies for instance or the Evil Dead franchise.
Weird little straight to VHS things that just blow your mind when you see them years later.

Dark Star early John Carpenter and Dan OBannon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069945/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_22

And personally I like some of the weird 70's Blaxsploitation flicks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ek6GVmf8b4
Stuff like that eventually ends up impossible to find.

[lostsoul79]

I don't think a lot off the earlier horror films get the respect they deserve a lot of the newer movies have ties or are remakes of the older ones which I think have lost the human touch the original had