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Christopher Nolan
Director / Screenwriter / Producer
1970 -
Born July 30, London, England
Key Production Countries: USA, UK 
Key Genres: Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Post-Noir (Modern Noir)
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)

Recommended: Memento (2000)*^, Insomnia (2002)
Worth a Look: The Prestige (2006)
Approach with Caution: Following (1998), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008)^, Inception (2010)^
* Listed in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films section; ^ Listed in TSPDT's 21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films section.

 
 
 
Links: [ Amazon ] [ IMDB ] [ TCMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide[ Film.com Interview (2010) ] [ tribute.ca Bio ] [ Wikipedia ] [ Slash Film Interview ] [ Guardian News Articles ] [ Flickering Myth Profile ] [ Time Out Article (2010) ]
Books: [ The Making of Memento ]
 
Memento (2000)Insomnia (2002)Following (1998)The Prestige (2006)
 
     
  "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." - Hannah Patterson (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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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"I think my generation of filmmakers is the first to have grown up with home video, and as soon as you have VHS - we got our first one when I was eleven - you can stop the film when the phone rings, and suddenly viewing films in the home become more like books. I think with things like DVD this will carry on. So I think there is more freedom and potential for filmmakers working now to create more dense and structurally complex narratives." - Christopher Nolan, Guardian Interview (2002)

 
 
21st Century Top 50 
501 Movie Directors: A Comprehensive Guide to the Greatest Filmmakers
23 Best Film Directors in the World Today (The Guardian, 2012)
 
See Also
Neil Burger (external link)
David Fincher
David Mamet
Michael Mann
Scott McGehee & David Siegel
Alex Proyas
Joseph Ruben
Joel Schumacher
Bryan Singer
George Sluizer (external link)
Steven Soderbergh
Orson Welles
 
 
 
         
         

 

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