Tag: Memento
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Five talking points from 2024 Sundance
Sundance Film Festival ran from January 18-28 and, after a sluggish start, there were deals (click here for the latest), celebrity sightings, and a protest.Christopher Nolan turned up to collect an honourary award at the festival’s opening night gala fundraiser and called the occasion a “full circle moment” 23 years after premeiring his breakout thriller…
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‘Oppenheimer’ Producer Reveals “Pipe Dream” to Beat ‘Dunkirk’s Box Office
Oppenheimer producer Emma Thomas has revealed that, while the movie went on to gross over $900 million and counting, initial expectations for the film were much more tempered and conservative. Thomas, who is married to Nolan, has been the producer behind all of Nolan’s films, starting with the short film Doodlebug. Their collaborative journey, from…
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What Happened to the Remake of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’?
Throughout Christopher Nolan’s stellar filmography, the auteur filmmaker has always maintained a particular vision grounded by non-linear storytelling and unforeseen twists. From his very first picture, Following, through his most recent success, Oppenheimer, Nolan continues to wow audiences everywhere with his cerebral brand of blockbuster filmmaking. But before he made high-profile blockbusters, Nolan thrived in…
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This Is the Most Christopher Nolan Moment in Any of the Director’s Movies
Christopher Nolan is one of the great name-brand filmmakers of his generation. Even though he has several classics to his name at this point, which one of them truly has the most “Christopher Nolan” moment of them all? Could it be the city folding in on itself for the first time in Inception? Close, but…
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Steven Soderbergh Called the Warner Bros. Exec Who Disliked ‘Memento’ and Told Him to Consider Christopher Nolan for ‘Insomnia’: ‘Take the Meeting’
Steven Soderbergh recently spoke to Rolling Stone while promoting his new series “Command Z” about the origins of his friendship with fellow filmmaker Christopher Nolan. According to the “Traffic” and “Ocean’s Eleven” director, a Warner Bros. executive refused to meet with Nolan about a potential directing gig for the studio’s thriller “Insomnia.” The exec allegedly…
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That Time a Bollywood Remake of ‘Memento’ Pissed Off Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nolan burst into the cultural zeitgeist with his magnificent second-effort Memento, a gripping tale about a man who must find the perpetrator to his wife’s murder, whose efforts are hampered by a rare form of short-term memory loss. Critics have hailed it as one of the best films of 2001, and it has gone…
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Steven Soderbergh Details Convincing Warner Bros. to Hire Christopher Nolan for ‘Insomnia’
Steven Soderbergh isn’t losing sleep over Christopher Nolan’s career.The “Command Z” director recalled reaching out to Warner Bros. for Nolan to be considered to direct 2002 thriller “Insomnia” starring Al Pacino, Hilary Swank, and Robin Williams. While Soderbergh seemingly downplayed his involvement in forging a two-decade relationship between Warner Bros. and Nolan during a recent…
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‘Dunkirk’ Represents the Best of Christopher Nolan
In a film landscape that is overflowing with intellectual property, Christopher Nolan is one of the rare directors whose name still fills the seats in movie theaters. Even the rise of Nolan is hardly something that needs to be explained to the average moviegoer. If you didn’t catch his early films like Memento or The…
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Oppenheimer Ending Explained: Did We Destroy The World?
Is “Oppenheimer” Christopher Nolan’s best, most ambitious film yet? That might sound hard to believe from the director who delivered a movie with a complicated series of timelines in “Memento,” an entire “Batman” trilogy, the dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream meticulousness of “Inception,” more timeline shenanigans with “Dunkirk,” and, oh yeah, that feature-length excuse to film things in reverse known…
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Paul Newman Is the Standout in This Other Oppenheimer Movie
The highly anticipated summer blockbuster Oppenheimer is almost here, and we can’t wait to see what Christopher Nolan will bring to the screen on July 21. His retelling of how the first atomic bomb came to be is sure to be filled with mind-blowing cinematography and terrifically acted scenes from a great ensemble cast including…