Cold, foreign and frightening that’s what we have in store for you this weekend at the Packard Campus Theater. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2022 @ 7:30pm The Ascent (International Film Circuit, 1977) Soviet partisans try to survive a cold Russian winter and do so contending with their German Nazi occupiers. (B&W, 117 minutes; Russian and German …
Even if you have been to the Recorded Sound Research Center of the Library of Congress in person, most of you never met Larry Miller, a longtime staff member of the section who died suddenly on September 26th. But if you have used the Library’s recorded sound holdings in some way, whether as a researcher …
This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) The Packard Campus Theater’s look at the “future” continues this weekend with the following films. “Akira” (Friday, September 23, 2022; 7:30 pm) Tokyo is all but destroyed in a third World War. What does it look like thirty years later? …
This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) The future is now! Or then, as the case may be. This month, at the Packard Theater, we are highlighting futuristic films whose time has passed. “Soylent Green” (1973) (Friday, September 16, 2022; 7:30 pm) This is the film that …
Over 20 years ago, two unassuming VHS tapes were delivered to the Library of Congress’s Packard Campus as part of a copyright deposit. This past month, they became an internet and anime sensation. It took some dogged, dedicated detective work to finally, fully understand the notoriety of these two works. It was a long-simmering puzzle, …
This coming weekend at the Packard Campus Theater (19053 Mt. Pony Road / Culpeper, VA) “The Godfather” (1972): Friday August 26, 2022 (7:30pm) “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1932): Saturday, August 27, 2022 (2pm) …
I am happy to say that I work with some of the most fascinating, brilliant and passionate people that I’ve ever known. The halls here at the Library of Congress National Audio-Video Conservation Center are abuzz every day with discussions about movies, directors, cinematography, casting decisions, and opinions about what is the greatest film of …
As the great Mary McLeod Bethune gets her own statue at the US Capitol, the Library's own Stacie Seifrit-Griffin examines her life and legacy via the Library's audio-video collections.
