Library Of Congress Film Registry: The Next 25

[erik]

Twenty-five films have been added to the Library Of Congress Film Registry, among them, THE SHINING, JURASSIC PARK, and THE INFORMER:

www.cbsnews.com/news/jurassic-park-the-shining-my-fair-lady-2018-additions-to-library-of-congress-national-film-registry/

[the Scribe]

If the point of this registry is to preserve these films from damage caused by age one would think they should be working a little bit faster than 25 a year or whatever the rate is.

Doesn't transferring film to dvd or new technology automatically preserve it? Seems like an ongoing process as even cd's and digital processes fail in time. Glad to see The Shining added.

[erik]

This is a way of making sure such preservation keeps taking place. Maybe it's a bit slow for some tastes; but the fact that it is being done at all, at the behest of "liberal Hollywood", rather than DC Beltway politicians, should count as something (IMHO).

As for the choices--well, I doubt anybody is going to quibble too much with this year's list. This is an extremely worthwhile twenty-five that includes such contemporary Westerns as BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, HUD, and BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK, plus Hitchcock's 1940 film REBECCA (the only film of his to win an Oscar for Best Picture); and the 1968 rock-doc MONTEREY POP.