“I’m happy I got the four [on the registry],” Spike Lee says. “I got more to come; I’m not done.”
has had a film inducted into the National Film Registry, earning a permanent place in the Library of Congress for making a film that is “historically, culturally, or aesthetically significant.” But when the call came that 1986’sin the registry, “it comes out of nowhere,” Lee toldjoins 24 titles among this year’s inductees , bringing the registry to 775 films. This year’s roster is the most diverse yet, with several films directed by women and several more about them.is both.
program coordinator for the National Film Registry. “In the early 1980s, studios really had no incentive to preserve their titles,” he said. “Once a film was done with its theatrical release, there wasn’t a large market. Starting in the early ’80s, you had cable and home video, which meant studios had to go back to their libraries and preserve their films to have a good product. “went public about how color films from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s were starting to fade.
a hugely influential film that also depicts the Ku Klux Klan as heroes. It was inducted into the registry in 1992, and there it will stay.
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