Tag: Christopher Nolan

• Favorite Films of 2023

  As with last year’s list, I decided to skip the usual pressure to make a top 10 by the end of the year without having seen a bunch of the eligible movies. Instead I took my time, waiting to watch titles as they hit streaming or Blu-ray so I’d have a better shot at a…

  Mar 6, 2024

  # Back to the Future, best of, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, documentary, film, lists, movies, review, Saturday Night Live, Spider-Man

• Barbenheimer: screenwriting edition

  Well, not exactly, but Christopher Nolan’s recent appearance on the Scriptnotes podcast was excellent and inspired me to check out Greta Gerwig’s 2020 appearance for Little Women too. Both have really thoughtful things to say about the craft of writing and how it relates to moviemaking. Here’s Gerwig on the ache of absence in Little…

  Dec 22, 2023

  # Christopher Nolan, film, Greta Gerwig, Little Women, movies, quotes, writing

• Favorite Films of 2001

  I’m creating my movie best-of lists retroactively. See all of them. We’re now over 20 years away from the films in question. This means my impressions of the ones I haven’t rewatched somewhat recently are encased in metaphorical amber, for better or worse. It also means I wouldn’t have seen a good number of them…

  Apr 10, 2022

  # best of, Christopher Nolan, film, lists, Lord of the Rings, Memento, movies, review

• Ghost Papas: Fatherhood in ‘The Patriot’ and ‘Interstellar’

  I recently rewatched The Patriot for the first time in a long while. I was big into this movie as a lad, so rewatching it as a thirtysomething dad was something of an experiment to see how my adolescent tastes hold up. There’s good (John Williams’ score, Mel Gibson as likeable movie star) and bad…

  Aug 28, 2020

  # Christopher Nolan, family, fatherhood, film, history, Interstellar, IPC, Mel Gibson, movies, parenting, review, Roger Ebert, synchronicity, The Patriot

• Einterstellar

  My new definition of cosmic irony: to be in the midst of Walter Isaacson’s Einstein: His Life and Universe as I went to see Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, a marvel of a film that directly references Einstein and his theory of relativity. I had a chuckle during the film when that moment arrived, not because I…

  Nov 25, 2014

  # Albert Einstein, books, Christopher Nolan, film, Interstellar, movies, outer space, science, synchronicity

• The Prestige

  The Prestige is a film about magicians and their illusions, but it is also an illusion itself. In the film and in magic, we are first shown the Pledge; a seemingly ordinary scenario that we will assume is probably not so ordinary. Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) two rival magicians who…

  Oct 22, 2006

  # Batman Begins, Christopher Nolan, film, Memento, movies, review, Scarlett Johansson, The Prestige