Category: National Film Preservation Board

Holy “Texas Chainsaw,” it’s the 2024 National Film Registry!

December 17, 2024

Posted by: Brett Zongker

The 2024 National Film Registry includes 25 films selected for their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance to the nation's history. This year's entries include major hits such as "The Social Network," "No Country for Old Men," and "Beverly Hills Cop"; indie classics such as "My Own Private Idaho" and "Powwow Highway"; the family film "Spy Kids" and the horror movie classic, "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."

Posted in: National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, Performing Arts

Black History Month: Spike Lee and “Bamboozled”

February 28, 2024

Posted by: Neely Tucker

Spike Lee's 2000 film "Bamboozled," a hard-edged satire of blackface in cinema and television, was part of the 2023 class of National Film Registry and his fifth film to join the list. In an interview with the Library, he explains how the film is an answer to D.W. Griffith's notorious "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915, which set into play more than a century of racist tropes in films.

Posted in: African American History, Film, National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, Performing Arts