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Volume 621
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Monday, December 14th, 2020
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historian Jacqueline Stewart, to discuss the films. Also, select titles from 30 years of the National Film Registry are freely available online in the National Screening Room. Follow the conversation about
the 2020 National Film Registry on Twitter at @librarycongress and #NatFilmRegistry.
The Dark Knight (2008)
Bob Kane and Bill Finger's dark, enduring creation first flew onto the screen in a 1943 B-movie serial and would return to theaters several times in treatments both camp and action-oriented. But
Christopher Nolan's evocative 2008 work reinvented the already vast Batman mythos thanks in no small part to its two intense, now legendary, lead performances: Christian Bale as the titular character and
Heath Ledger, in a remarkable, Oscar-winning take on Bat super-villain "The Joker." Set in a dark, modern-day Gotham City, "The Dark Knight" is a visual feast of memorable set pieces, screenwriting flair,
and characters and situations imbued with a soul and a conscience. "Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, "The Dark Knight" goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood
movie of its comic-book kind," wrote Manohla Dargis of The New York Times. The theme of a world turned upside down by fear and dystopian chaos resonates eerily well in the pandemic havoc of 2020.
Films Selected for the 2020 National Film Registry
(chronological order)
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Suspense (1913)
Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914)
Bread (1918)
The Battle of the Century (1927)
With Car and Camera Around the World (1929)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Outrage (1950)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Wattstax (1973)
Grease (1978)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Losing Ground (1982)
Illusions (1982)
The Joy Luck Club (1993)
The Devil Never Sleeps (1994)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
The Ground (1993-2001)
Shrek (2001)
Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege (2006)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Freedom Riders (2010)
Batman Movie Countdown
THE BATMAN
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