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National Film Registry announces 25 inductees for 2021, including ‘Return of the Jedi’ and 'Selena'

This year’s inductees into the National Film Registry, a program of the Library of Congress, casts a wide net of franchise blockbusters (”Return of the Jedi,” “The Fellowship of the Ring”), legendary directors (Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Wes Craven), an array of Black, Latinx and Asian American filmmakers — and a healthy dose of Chicago-made work. The 25 titles, released ...

This year’s inductees into the National Film Registry, a program of the Library of Congress, casts a wide net of franchise blockbusters (”Return of the Jedi,” “The Fellowship of the Ring”), legendary directors (Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, Wes Craven), an array of Black, Latinx and Asian American filmmakers — and a healthy dose of Chicago-made work.

The 25 titles, released this week, include the Cabrini-Green set 1975 comedy “Cooley High,” its title taken from Cooley Vocational High School, closed

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