Film critic Genevieve Radosti joins the show this week to discuss the process of submitting films for consideration by the library of congress as “culturally significant.” We wonder what that term means—but also what it means when standards of art are often a lot more nuanced and complicated than the people consuming it. What about dumb movies? Don’t they deserve some attention, too?
We throw around some ideas like Good Burger, Idiocracy, Billy Madison, Twilight, The Room, and Ishtar. What would you nominate? Let us know in the comments.
Follow Geneveive’s work over at MovieJawn, the Cinefilth podcast, and as genre programmer at the microcinema pop up Projecting.
Nominate movies to the Library of Congress directly here.
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