Christopher Nolan
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Christopher Nolan has spent his entire career dismantling our relationship with time. In this video essay, we explore how Nolan’s INTERSTELLAR represents one of his most fully-realized artistic statements — informed by his signature obsessions with time, architecture, mathematics, and literature. Watch the full breakdown on INTERSTELLAR — as well as other longform breakdowns on…
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![Christopher Nolan [Part 6] Mission: Invertible](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/screen-shot-2022-04-22-at-2.16.28-pm.png)
PART 6: MISSION: INVERTIBLE is the sixth episode of our multi-part documentary series on Christopher Nolan, covering his physics-defying spy thriller TENET (2020) and the global health crisis that threatens the theatrical experience– the core of Nolan’s artistry. Watch the full episode on Special.tv!
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Academy Award Wins: Best Visual Effects Director Christopher Nolan has spent most of his career imagining and entertaining various apocalypses, manifesting them onscreen via a series of big-budget action spectacles. He probably never imagined that the 2020 release of TENET, his eleventh feature film, would arrive in the midst of a very real one— an…
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![Christopher Nolan [5.5] — Present Tension](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sequence-01-00_19_14_09-still045.jpg)
5.5: PRESENT TENSION is the fifth chapter of THE DIRECTORS SERIES’ examination into the films and career of director Christopher Nolan, covering his minimalist war opus, DUNKIRK (2017): QUAY (2015) DUNKIRK (2017)
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Along with the mass devastation and the loss of millions of lives, World War 2 brought about something positive: a recognition of the innate heroism in every person. It wasn’t just a conflict fought by unseen general and soldiers on some distant field by– it was a harrowing ordeal that quite literally hit home for…
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As a noted champion of practical effects and technical craftsmanship, director Christopher Nolan has a vested interest in supporting similarly-minded filmmakers. As the director of some of the biggest blockbusters in recent memory, Nolan also has the power to shed light on underexposed voices by using the pedigree of his own name to help them…
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Mankind is a race of explorers– from the governmental level on down to the individual family unit, we’re constantly pursuing the expansion of our domain into uncharted territory. The fundamental desire that drove us across entire continents and oceans has also given birth to the tribal mind-set of nation-states, drawing up arbitrary borders in a…
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Despite the record-shattering success of 2008’s THE DARK KNIGHT, the promise of an early retirement-enabling payday and a higher budget than the GDP of most small countries, the prospect of Nolan returning to the world of Batman a third time initially inspired hesitance. There was no ill will or negative experience fueling his reluctance, but…
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![Christopher Nolan [5.4] — The Apocalyptic Epics](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/sequence-01-01_12_40_20-still041.jpg)
5.4: THE APOCALYPTIC EPICS is the fourth chapter of THE DIRECTORS SERIES’ examination into the films and career of director Christopher Nolan, covering his pair of big-screen opuses with super-sized stakes: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012) INTERSTELLAR (2014)
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With the staggering success of THE DARK KNIGHT, director Christopher Nolan was in a prime position to make whatever he wanted. Rather than capitalize off his momentum with a third Batman film, he turned instead to a long-gestating passion project he’d been thinking about since he was a teenager. He’d always been fascinated by the…
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The runaway success of BATMAN BEGINS in 2005 revitalized the flagging Batman movie franchise, leaving fans clamoring for more of director Christopher Nolan’s expansive and groundbreaking vision. A sequel was inevitable, but rather than capitalize off the resurgent Batmania by pushing out the next chapter as fast as possible, Warner Brothers executives did something quite…
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![Christopher Nolan [5.3] — The Colossal Cornerstones](https://thedirectorsseries.blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cn5-3.jpg)
5.3: THE COLOSSAL CORNERSTONES is the third chapter of THE DIRECTORS SERIES’ examination into the films and career of director Christopher Nolan, covering his zeitgeist-defining pair of complex blockbusters: THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) INCEPTION (2010)