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‘Beverly Hills Cop,’ ‘Dirty Dancing,’ ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Join Library of Congress Film Registry


'Beverly Hills Cop,' 'Dirty Dancing,' and 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' are among the 25 films added to the Library of Congress' Film Registry.

Twenty-five films were added to the registry this year, including Beverly Hills Cop, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Dirty Dancing. Other major titles include Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, David Fincher’s Facebook origin story The Social Network, Cheech and Chong ’s Up in Smoke, and the Coen Brothers’ Best Picture-winner No Country for Old Men. Aaron Sorkin, who won an Oscar for penning the screenplay for The Social Network, told the LoC in an interview, “It felt like a good courtroom drama to me.

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