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Christopher Nolan |
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Director / Screenwriter / Producer |
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1970 - |
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Born July 30,
London, England |
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Key
Production Countries: USA, UK
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Key Genres:
Thriller, Psychological Thriller,
Post-Noir (Modern Noir) |
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Key
Collaborators: Wally
Pfister (Cinematographer), Emma Thomas (Producer), Michael Caine
(Leading Character Player), Lee Smith (Editor), David Julyan (Composer),
Nathan Crowley (Production Designer), Christian Bale (Leading Player),
Cillian Murphy (Character Player), Hans Zimmer (Composer), Jonathan Nolan (Screenwriter) |
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Recommended: Memento
(2000)*^, Insomnia (2002) |
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Worth a Look: The
Prestige (2006) |
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Approach with Caution:
Following (1998),
Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008)^, Inception (2010)^ |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links: [
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Film.com Interview (2010) ]
[
tribute.ca
Bio ] [
Wikipedia ]
[
Slash Film Interview ] [
Guardian News Articles
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Flickering Myth Profile ]
[
Time Out Article (2010) ] |
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Books: [
The Making of Memento ] |
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"Favouring
small, intense, character-driven stories, his work is heavily
influenced by noir narratives and aesthetics. Fashioning
protagonists that become the detectives in the mysteries of
their own lives, his two first films incorporate flashback
narratives... Like
David Fincher
or
Steven Soderbergh, he
fashions stylish, smart and intriguing films that appeal on both
an emotional and intelligent level to mainstream and art-house
audiences alike."
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Hannah Patterson (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002) |
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"Christopher
Nolan has swiftly established himself as one of the brightest
hopes for Hollywood storytelling as the movies enter their
second century... A mainstream filmmaker with a left-field
sensibility and a fascination with narrative, Nolan looks
ideally placed to emulate the success of someone like
Steven Soderbergh. He may go
farther still." -
Tom Charity (The Rough Guide to Film, 2007)
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"Noted
for the innovative structure of both his noirish, cerebral debut
film Following (1998) and its follow-up, the equally
unconventional and heady Memento (2000), London-born
filmmaker Christopher Nolan has shown a unique talent for
creating involving films containing concepts based on abstract
breaks with conventional behavior and idealism." -
Jason Buchanan (All-Movie Guide)
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"I
studied English Literature. I wasn't a very good student, but
one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the
same time with the college film society, was that I started
thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed
for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy
those freedoms as well." -
Christopher Nolan |
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