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Basically, it’s like the federal government’s version of “desert island movies”, but they get to keep adding movies every year.

Specifically, the National Film Preservation Act, adds 25 movies of cultural, historic, or aesthetic importance to the National Historic Registry of the Library of Congress.

This year, that includes vaudeville comedy Beau Brummels (1928), Buster Keaton vehicle Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), Billy Wilder and Barbara Stanwyck screwball comedy Ball of Fire (1941), Barbara Streisand shining in Funny Girl (1968), the uber-subversive Putney Swope (1969) from Robert Downey Sr., the live action-animation hybrid Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) and Wes Anderson’s milestone work Rushmore (1998).

Not a bad run of desert island movie, right?

Get the full list of films added to the National Historic Registry at the link above.

Ghostbusters Now Included in the National Film Registry

December 16, 2015

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(via Variety)

Not that it was going to be an issue, but Egon (played by the late Harold Ramis) will definitely not be forgotten now.

The National Film Registry is an archive kept by the Library of Congress to ensure specific films within the cinematic canon are especially preserved as their significance to the art of film cannot be emphasized enough.

So, the original Ghostbusters, released in 1984, has just made the cut along side a film by one of film’s very first innovators, Eadweard Muybridge and will live on in perpetuity in one of country’s highest regarded collections.

Perhaps, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters, for the potential cultural milestone it’s set to make, might make it in there as well?

Kumail Nanjiani Nails The Zeitgeist By Talking Twitter and Bidets on Conan

April 10, 2014

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The hilarious Kumail Nanjiani was on Conan this week and showed how in tune with this generation he is by talking about how much he loves bidets after trying one for the first time and Twitter as it’s being cataloged by The Library of Congress.

Even though it’s technically bathroom and Twitter humor, Kumail makes it as almost as high brow as you can make it.

Rushmore, Funny Girl, and Putney Swope Just Added to National Historic Registry

Ghostbusters Now Included in the National Film Registry

Kumail Nanjiani Nails The Zeitgeist By Talking Twitter and Bidets on Conan