Christopher Nolan’s Zeus complex
The Odyssey is the perfect canvas for the director’s obsession with power and time.
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What Christopher Nolan got wrong about Oppenheimer
I spent eleven years writing a biography of Oppenheimer. Does Nolan’s film “capture” him in all his complexity?
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Christopher Nolan: the last Tory
The director is a mass entertainer with an elitist disdain for the masses. In his films, order and hierarchy reign…
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Oppenheimer’s tormented soul
In this perspective-shifting biopic, Christopher Nolan frames the father of the atom bomb as a tortured Prometheus.
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The “avant-garde lite” films of Christopher Nolan and Charlie Kaufman
Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a philosophical comedy-horror available on Netflix; while Nolan’s Tenet is an action spectacular…
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Can celluloid lovers like Christopher Nolan stop a digital-only future for film?
Despite proponents like the Dunkirk director, physical film is finding it tough in the modern age.
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Dunkirk is an accomplished, expressive war film without the blood and guts
Christopher Nolan both stretches time and compresses it, creating suspense without horror.
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Home from home: Christopher Nolan’s space movie Interstellar fails to launch
It’s hard to care about the future of civilisation when we meet so few members of it worth saving and…
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