Berry Gordy for $5,000. After the film was re-released, The Washington Post called it "one of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country", and in 1994 it was added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Roemer's film, The Plot Against Harry, a comedy, was made in 1969, but found no one to distribute it because no one found it funny. Twenty years later, he decided to put all of his movies on videotape as a gift to his children. Discovering that the technician who was making the transfer was laughing hard at the film, Roemer decided to make two 35 mm prints and submitted them to film festivals in New York and Toronto. Both festivals accepted the film and commercial distribution and acclaim followed. The film was nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards, and won the Rosa Camuna prize at the Bergamo Film Meeting in 1990. Roemer was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971 and began teaching at Yale University in 1966. Roemer was interviewed for the 1996 documentary about the Kindertransports, My Knees Were Jumping. Roemer made the 1976 documentary Dying, which was shown on PBS. He then made two films for that network's American Playhouse series: Pilgrim, Farewell (1980) and Haunted (1984). In 2022, Haunted was re-released theatrically under the title Vengeance is Mine, and received a similar reappraisal to the one received years earlier by The Plot Against Harry. Writing in the New York Times, critic Wesley Morris called it "an American movie executed with a French film’s interpersonal insouciance. It still feels original, in other words — one of those movies that somebody wrote and directed (Roemer, in this case) but that feels controlled entirely, engrossingly by human impulse, lawless in its way." In Screen Slate, A.S. Hamrah wrote that discovering a Roemer film as good as Nothing But a Man and The Plot Against Harry "is a cause for celebration, and something of a miracle." Books Telling Stories: Postmodernism and the Invalidation of Traditional Narrative (1997) University Press of America, Inc. Film Stories, Vol. 1, Scarecrow Press (2001) Film Stories, Vol. 2, Scarecrow Press (2001) Shocked But Connected: Notes on Laughter, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2012) Filmography (selected list) A Touch of the Times (1949) Cortile Cascino (1962) documentary Nothing But a Man (1964), co-produced with Robert M. Young and Robert Rubin, starring Ivan