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Film Mardi Gras (1898) found in the Netherlands in the national film list of the US Footage of a parade in New Orleans found in the Netherlands has been included in the US National Film Registry. The Mardi Grass Carnival , made in 1898, is the oldest film of the carnival celebration and was discovered this year in the collection of the Eye film museum. In the footage, just under two minutes long, a colorful procession with several floats moves through the streets of New Orleans. The footage was found when the Louisiana State Museum was looking for its oldest record for an exhibit about the folk festival. That turned out to be a 68mm film from one of Eye's oldest collections, the archive of an American newsreel. It had already been preserved in 1998, but then no one realized how unique the statue was. Eye hopes that now that the other approximately 200 films from this archive are being digitized, even more special images will be discovered. Mardi Grass Carnival shows how exuberant the party was already celebrated at the time: ![]() Mardi Gras Carnival 1898 The film is included in the National Film Registry because the American Library of Congress considers the recordings special. Each year, 25 films are selected for that list that are of great "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance to the national film heritage". The list of 850 titles includes Hollywood classics such as Gone with the Wind , The Sound of Music and The Matrix , but also an information film such as The Story of Menstruation (1946), an amateur film of a visit to Disneyland and the Zapruder film of the murder on President Kennedy. There are only nine titles from before 1900 on the list. If a film is selected for the register, the Library of Congress, one of the U.S. cultural bearers, promises to make an effort to preserve it, for example by including a copy in its collection, helping other archives to change the title. to store or to assist with restorations. Romcom, animation and blaxploitation At the same time as Mardi Grass Carnival , 24 other titles were selected, such as the romcom When Harry Met Sally , horror film Carrie , Disney animation The Little Mermaid, blaxploitation film Super Fly and the first of the successful series of Marvel films, Iron Man . They are all titles that were influential in their genre, explains Congressional Librarian Carola Hayden. There were 6858 nominations submitted by the public this year. Films must be at least ten years old to be eligible. |
I read about a movie that I'm sure tw2113 would love to see :)
![]() the soundtrack was just released on Invada (label of Thought Forms) that's how I found out. Didn't like much of it, and it doesn't feature the original Heidi theme song. But I do like the story behind the movie. Here's a copy/paste of an imdb review: Quote:
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I'll willingly check it out.
Watching Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter right now |
Night of the Creeps
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![]() at the start I didn't like it a lot, towards the end I did. Definitely worth the three or so hours! |
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hahahahaha mad heidi killing fascists looks like fun.... btw... does this cast member get a lot of screen time? https://www.instagram.com/almargsato/ :o |
Real Genius. Classic Kilmer
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The Marine 6: Close Encounters.
Yolo |
I was having a theme night :)
The American is a great movie. The Psycho was a bit too disturbing for me. The Factory is a really interesting documentary. Amazing that they were allowed to film it all. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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it needs to be recorded by me from the TV over the past year (and not yet watched obviously). Or it needs to be available on Netflix. I've got three more TV recorded movies that fit in this theme, so the theme night will continue today, and there's also a few others on Netflix but those aren't too good I think. |
the plan was to finish the theme last night, but I only got to watching one of the remaining and choose to watch the speed skating championships instead.
![]() it's a bit lame, but very entertaining at the same time. The end credits made me regret that I stopped smoking weed. Must be fun to watch that when stoned, it will probably make the entire movie a whole lot better :) it's a touch choice, Kirsten Stewart or Jutta Leerdam: ![]() |
![]() Didn't like it as much as I possibly should have. I read the Trivia on imdb after watching the movie and then almost wanted to watch it again. I thought the characters were a bit too much over the top, and the story was long winded. But it looks very good, and it has a nice soundtrack as well. Christian Bale looked an awful lot like Woody Harrelson to me. And Jeremy Renner plays the mayor who's in the office for like 20 years, but he looks like he's in his late twenties. |
hahaha i love american hustle. seen it a handful of times. david o. russell is hilarious: flirting with disaster, i heart huckabees, three kings, silver linings playbook...
the cast in american hustle is awesome, hahahahha, i laugh just thinking about them. i mean sure, there is a serious story of some sort going on, but i read it mainly as a comedy. more specifically: a farce. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk_-hjQ75mQ hahahahahahaaaa she's so great... but yeah none of the actual people involved in the real life events looked anything like their film counterparts. i've looked them up... |
I watched American Hustle and fell asleep twice.
I stopped caring about movies where the only issue is white people problems... |
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