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'The Dark Knight,' 'Grease' selected for National Film Registry UPI News Service, 12/14/2020  The Dark Knight, Grease, The Blues Brothers, Shrek and more were selected for inclusion in the National Film Registry Monday by The Library of Congress. ADVERTISEMENT Freedom Riders, The Hurt Locker, Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege, The Ground, Buena Vista Social Club, The Devil Never Sleeps, The Joy Luck Club, Illusions, Losing Ground, Wattstax, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, A Clockwork Orange, Lilies of the Field, The Man with the Golden Arm, Outrage, Cabin the Sky, With Cara and...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard The National Film Registry is a program enacted in 1988 that "works to ensure the survival, conservation and increased public availability of America''s film heritage." Each year the National Film Registration Board selects 25 films that are deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." If selected by the board, the films are marked for preservation by the Library of Congress. Basically, if the government appointed board decides that a film has had a large enough impact on American film it's going to be inducted into the Library of Congress. Tha...

Library of Congress toggle caption Library of Congress Olivia Newton-John as Sandy and John Travolta as Danny in the 1978 movie Grease, which was added this year to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress The Library of Congress tries to raise awareness of film conservation every year by adding 25 movies to the National Film Registry to preserve for posterity. As usual, 2020's lineup includes attention-grabbing Hollywood blockbusters of relatively recent vintage ( The Dark Knight and Grease, The Blues Brothers, A Cloc...

The Hurt Locker and the animated fan-favorite Shrek. Following "My desire in making The Hurt Locker was to honor those in uniform serving in dangerous posts abroad, so I have been gratified by the resonance the film has had over the last 10 years," Bigelow, who won the Best Director Oscar in 2009, said, according to Variety. "For it to be selected by the National Film Registry is both humbling and thrilling." Other films directed by women now on the National Film Registry include the 1913 silent film Suspense co-directed by Lois Weber; the 1918 silent film Bread, directed by Ida May Park...

Rolling Stone ‘Dark Knight,’ ‘Shrek,’ ‘Blues Brothers’ Added to National Film Registry A Clockwork Orange, By © Universal Pictures/Everett Collection The National Film Registry at the Library of Congress has selected 25 new films for preservation, including The Blues Brothers. An announcement on the Library of Congress website explained that the Film Registry chooses movies based on their “cultural, historic or aesthetic importance to the nation’s film heritage.” The 2020 titles boast a mix of “blockbusters, musicals, silent films, documentaries, and di...