This year's list of 25 films that will be added to the National Film Registry, housed at the Library of Congress, includes: • 'The Little Mermaid' • 'When Harry Met Sally' • 'Carrie' (1976) • “Cyrano de Bergerac' (1951)
on Wednesday announced 25 films that will be added to a national registry that preserves significant works.
About 6,800 titles were nominated this year, Steve Leggett, program director for the board, told Axios. Many nominations come from the public.Only about 60 titles in the registry as of 2021 — just over 7% — are films directed by people of color, according to the library. Titles by Latino filmmakers include "Selena;" "Real Women Have Curves;" "Stand and Deliver;" and "La Bamba."So is Ang Lee's "Brokeback Mountain."includes Edward James Olmos' "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez," the seminal 1982 film shot on a small budget for PBS."It was very much a keystone film in the 198s Chicano film movement," Leggett said.
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