Celebrating the best recent restorations of classic works of cinema, this series brings some of the greatest films ever made to Brooklyn’s grandest movie theater, opening with a long-unavailable drama.
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
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One of the most radical, revolutionary statements in film history, Ivan Dixon’s explosive adaptation of the novel by Sam Greenlee follows the fictional first Black CIA agent (Cook), who uses his specialized training to build a guerrilla army intent on government overthrow. So potent is the film’s call to revolution that it was pulled from theaters within days of opening. BAM is thrilled to present this long-unavailable masterwork of American cinema, a treasured classic and 2012 National Film Registry selection.
Restored by The Library of Congress and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
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