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Christopher Nolan's done a lot in just over 20 years in the industry. With a meteoric rise from nothing as a former English Literature student with a camera in Following to the director of heady, wildly expensive Hollywood entertainments like Tenet, Nolan has become one of the true auteur voices in big budget modern filmmaking.… Continue reading Christopher Nolan: The Definitive Ranking
#10 in my ranking of Christopher Nolan's films. This is the rougher form of manipulation and time jumping that Nolan would use to greater effect in Memento, making this almost feel like a practice run for his real breakout film. That being said, Following, the tiny $6,000 movie Nolan made on weekends for a year… Continue reading Following
#5 in my ranking of Christopher Nolan's films. This has one of those endings that so completely recast everything that came before it that it actually makes the rest of the movie better. It's easy to see why this blew a lot of minds when it first came out. The finale takes actions from the… Continue reading Memento
#9 in my ranking of Christopher Nolan's films. It's weird watching this in the middle of watching Twin Peaks. Both are about out of town lawmen coming to an out of the way small town in the heavily wooded parts of the American northwest to investigate the murder of a high school girl whose body… Continue reading Insomnia
#7 in my ranking of Christopher Nolan's films. #5 in my ranking of theatrically released Batman films. I saw this movie twice on opening day way back in 2005. I went by myself, and then, about fifteen minutes after I got home, a girl I had some interest in show up at my door and… Continue reading Batman Begins
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