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Christopher Nolan’s Fascination with Time

Christopher Nolan’s Fascination with Time

Christopher Nolan loves to play with time in his films. Movies like Memento, Inception, Dunkirk, and Tenet each take advantage of the nature of time to tell stories and make audiences use their brains. Nerdstalgic’s film essay delves into Nolan’s effective manipulation of time throughout his filmography.

Heath Ledger’s Joker without Makeup

Heath Ledger’s Joker without Makeup

Heath Ledger’s performance as Joker in The Dark Knight is legendary. Thanks to deepfake technology, we can now see what his performance might have looked like had Heath not been wearing any makeup. GdaTyler VFX put together this video which used an AI trained on the actor’s uncovered face. It’s far from perfect, but it’s still fascinating to watch.

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Oppenheimer (Trailer 2)

Oppenheimer (Trailer 2)

The latest trailer for Christopher Nolan’s 3-hour opus takes us deeper into the reasoning behind the development of America’s first nuclear weapon and showcases the performances of Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project.

Oppenheimer (Trailer)

Oppenheimer (Trailer)

Christopher Nolan wrote and directed this biographical thriller about the man known as the father of the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer. Cillian Murphy leads a star-studded cast, with Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey, Jr., Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh. Shot in IMAX, it hits theaters on 7.21.23.

Oppenheimer (Teaser)

Oppenheimer (Teaser)

From Christopher Nolan comes the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man whose work on the Manhattan Project resulted in the first atomic bomb. Based on the book American Prometheus, it stars Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, with Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., and Florence Pugh. The bomb drops 7.21.23.

Interstellar for Great Pipe Organ

Interstellar for Great Pipe Organ

Hans Zimmer’s score from the movie Interstellar is one of the most powerful in recent memory. It’s even more impressive performed on the massive Walcker pipe organ at St. Paul’s Church in Strasbourg, France. The bigger the speakers you can play this through, the better. Arranged and performed by Antonino Buschiazzo.

Interstellar Meme Train

Interstellar Meme Train

We all know how much Christopher Nolan likes to play with time, space, and physics in his movies. NADUDE pokes fun at the classic docking sequence from Interstellar with a model train that rides around a circular track which then starts moving in the same direction and the same speed.

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When You Try to Follow a Christopher Nolan Movie

When You Try to Follow a Christopher Nolan Movie

With movies like Inception, Interstellar, and Tenet to his credit, Christopher Nolan isn’t exactly known for simple storytelling. Comedian Michael Spicer pokes fun at Nolan’s typically convoluted plots with this video entitled “That Scene in a Christopher Nolan Film When You Give Up Trying to Follow the Story.”

Time: Grand Piano + Looper Cover

Time: Grand Piano + Looper Cover

Musician Peter Bence performs an enthralling arrangement of Hans Zimmer’s award-winning track Time from Christopher Nolan’s Inception. Working in concert with a digital looper, he creates an impressive one-man symphonic sound that both echoes and reinvents the original piece.

TENET (Trailer 2)

TENET (Trailer 2)

Two trailers in, and Christopher Nolan’s new sci-fi espionage flick is still a bit of a mystery to us, but all we know is that its protagonist has been bestowed with some kind of ability to manipulate events through something called “inversion.” Drops 7.17.20 – hopefully in theaters.

TENET (Trailer)

TENET (Trailer)

Writer/Director Christopher Nolan is back, and his latest film looks like another wild ride. Plot details are thin, but the time travel thriller it has something to do with an agent who must go deep, deep undercover to prevent a catastrophe from ending us all. Drops 7/17/2020.

Honest Christopher Nolan Trailer

Honest Christopher Nolan Trailer

From The Dark Knight to Dunkirk, director Christopher Nolan has proven himself as one of today’s greatest fillmakers. Screen Junkies simultaneously honors and roasts Nolan, from his convoluted, non-linear plots, to the repetitive themes throughout his work.

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Christopher Nolan 4K HDR Blu-ray Set

Christopher Nolan 4K HDR Blu-ray Set

This Blu-ray box set features Christopher Nolan’s last seven movies – The Prestige, the three Dark Knight films, Inception, Interstellar, and Dunkirk – remastered in 4K with HDR support. It also comes with discs for 1080p versions of the films as well as bonus features.

Memento: Telling a Story in Reverse

Memento: Telling a Story in Reverse

Seventeen years ago, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan bamboozled us with their breakout film, Memento. If the film’s alternating backward and forward stories still puzzle you, imagine the mental gymnastics that the Nolan brothers had to go through to bring it to life.

Christopher Nolan: Tick Tock

Christopher Nolan: Tick Tock

Art of the Film pays tribute to the films of director Christopher Nolan with an intensely paced one-minute compilation of his work, set to the driving, rhythmic beat of a ticking clock. We were waiting for our screen to blow up by the end.

Memento Honest Trailer

Memento Honest Trailer

Screen Junkies takes on the film that put Christopher Nolan on the map, and established his knack for making mindbending and perplexing movies that make you want to go back and watch them 15 times to figure out everything that just happened.

Christopher Nolan’s Filmography

Christopher Nolan’s Filmography

ScreenPrism briefly analyzes Christopher Nolan’s diverse filmography. His movies are often morally ambiguous stories revolving around someone with multiple personas, but it seems he has taken a more positive turn beginning with Interstellar.

The Dark Knight: Visual Echoes

The Dark Knight: Visual Echoes

It’s no coincidence that Christopher Nolan hosted Heat‘s 20th anniversary retrospective – he’s a huge fan of fellow director Michael Mann. Glass Distortion compared scenes from Heat and Mann’s other films with ones from The Dark Knight to show Mann’s influence on Nolan.

The Ultimate Batman Complex

The Ultimate Batman Complex

In 2011, YouTuber themanbatman combined scenes from The Machinist, The Dark Knight, Inception and more to make The Batman Complex, a fan trailer that depicts Bruce Wayne as a schizophrenic. Here’s his updated version of the trailer. It’s Moon Knight: The Movie.

Interstellar (Trailer 3)

Interstellar (Trailer 3)

Three trailers in and we still don’t know much about Interstellar, but we wouldn’t have it any other way. Check out glimpses of a dying Earth, the hostile environment on other planets and a walking monolith. A minilith.

Interstellar (Trailer 2)

Interstellar (Trailer 2)

A rocky and icy landscape, a bubble of time and space, tiny monoliths and more abound in the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar. Like Rust Cohle, these clips raise more questions even as they reveal more about the movie.

Interstellar (Trailer)

Interstellar (Trailer)

“We must confront the reality that nothing in our solar system can help us.” Matthew McConaughey plays a pilot forced to leave Earth and his family in order to help save mankind. Also starring Michael Caine and Anne Hathaway.

Interstellar (Teaser)

Interstellar (Teaser)

The first spot for Christopher Nolan’s next movie shows very little from the film, but its concept certainly intrigues us. A group of explorers exploit a wormhole to travel through space at speeds never before achieved by mankind.

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