by aditya | Oct 23, 2020 | Archive
For anyone who thought Christopher Nolan couldn’t create a bigger head trip than Memento, well, he had time to make another movie in between his first two Batmans and boy did he prove them wrong! The plot, as basically as can be described, is that long ago there were...
by aditya | Oct 23, 2020 | Archive
Nolan demonstrated enough talent by the mid-2000s that Warner Bros. gave him the keys to the kingdom. You could say only keys to certain doors, as although he worked on the screenplay he had to do it WITH Blade writer David S. Goyer. This was the only time Nolan had...
by aditya | Oct 23, 2020 | Archive
After suddenly becoming Hollywood’s hottest filmmaker, Nolan may have missed out on an Academy Award thanks to Gosford Park (grrrrrrrrrrrrr) but he did get the chance to direct his first non-indie movie. The budget was 5x that of Memento and nearly 8,000x that of...
by aditya | Oct 23, 2020 | Archive
Even the legend in his own time Christopher Nolan was once a twenty-something whom nobody had ever heard of and who was trying to make movies on a microscopic budget. For this series of posts, going through his entire oeuvre, I watched his debut film for the first...
by aditya | Oct 23, 2020 | Archive
Now we get to Nolan’s breakout movie. Memento was the hippest movie of the early 2000s. It’s still #55 on the IMDB Top 250. In preparation for this project, I rewatched it for the first time since college. Wow, this took me back as much as hearing a remix of Dido’s...
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