25 movies join Library of Congress National Film Registry

25 movies have been selected this year to join the Library of Congress's National Film Registry.

Some of the movies picked include,

"The Empire Strikes Back"

"Saturday Night Fever"

"Airplane"

And more:

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/m ... ional.html

I wonder what's involved in "preserving" a film in this registry. I mean, it started in 1989 and it took them 20 years to realize that a film like Empire was culturally significant. Either they intentionally space these selections out or there is a lot of work in whatever they do to preserve the films.

25 films have been chosen to join the National Film Registry for the year 2011, and they include "Forrest Gump", "Norma Rae", and "Silence Of The Lambs", among others:

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.as ... r-mov-news

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.as ... r-mov-news


Good choices, although, I find it hard to believe that some of these films have not been added before now.

Any opinions on the films chosen this year??

Movies selected to join the National Film Registry for the year of 2012 include "Matrix",
"Dirty Harry", "A Christmas Story", "A League Of Their Own", and several more:

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-tal ... 23841.html