IMO, Hollywood's current best writer and director . His new film Inception is scheduled to release on July 16 2010. Link to his film's new trailer.
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IMO, Hollywood's current best writer and director . His new film Inception is scheduled to release on July 16 2010. Link to his film's new trailer.
Dark Knight Discussions
More later. :D.
Feddy :D :thumbsup:
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Memento is my Fav.
Dark Knight and Following next to it
Liked all his films.
Memento/The Prestige
Dark Knight
Following
Insomnia
Will come at second rack of favorite modern day auteurs. The first being the trinity of PT Anderson, Coens and QT. That's MO of course.
Nein Nein nein nein nein ......nein :evil:
Nolan also belongs to the first rack. He is showing great promise. Let's give him some time. :)
Successful producer, film director and writer Christopher Jonathan James Nolan famous by the name Christopher Nolan was born on the 30th July 1970 in London. Christopher holds dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States of America as his father was from the UK and his mother hailed from the US. He married Emma Thomas in 1997 a film producer and ardent admirer of Nolan’s work. The couple is have four children residing with them in Los Angeles. His brother Jonathan Nolan is a renowned author with whom Christopher often collaborates during the production of his movies.
Nolan spent considerable time between London and Chicago during his childhood. Nolan was educated in an independent school known as Hailey Bury College, in Hertfordshire near Hertford, England. Later Christopher Nolan learned the intricacies of English literature at University College London. An early starter Christopher Nolan started shooting films with a super 8 camera borrowed from his father. As a child he made short films with Roko Belic a future producer and director based at Chicago. Nolan made many short films in the University College London film society. His First Short Film Tarantella was shown in 1989 on PBS. In 1996 during the Cambridge Film Festival Larceny the second short film by Christopher Nolan was shown.
In 1996 Nolan directed his first feature film Titled Following. The film portrays the story of a writer obsessed with following unknown people randomly. The viewer becomes a little disoriented as scenes disregard chronological order. The movie was produced within a budget of a mere $6000 and was shot on weekends. Due to its unconventional storytelling style the film received attention after premiering at the 1998 San Francisco Film Festival. As a result of that Nolan got the script from Newmarket Films for his next film Memento.
Memento is a highly praised movie and was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for best screenplay. It is story of a widower named Leonard Shelby played by Australian actor Guy Pearce. The principal character of the film is unable to form new memories because of an old head injury. Nolan’s unique technique of presentation distinguished the film from its counterparts.
The film Insomnia was directed by Christopher Nolan in 2002, an American adaptation of a Norwegian film released in 1997 by the same name. The movie’s star cast includes Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank. Insomnia was appreciated by the critics. Although Christopher Nolan was satisfied with his directorial abilities he always wanted to direct a blockbuster, this opportunity came in the form of Batman Begins in the year 2003.
On the 15th June 2005 Batman Begins was released and jumped to the position of 3rd biggest blockbuster of that summer. The movie was highly acclaimed in the global scenario and is often rated above its 1989 counterpart. At the 32nd annual Saturn Awards, Batman Begins emerged as a major winner bagging the awards for Best Fantasy Film, Best Writing for Nolan and Goyer and Best Actor for Christian Bale. Batman Begins was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
The next directorial endeavour of Christopher Nolan was The Prestige a film co-produced by his wife Emma Thomas, and co-scripted by his brother Jonathan Nolan. The movie got a positive response from critics and earned over $109 million worldwide. After the release of The Prestige, Nolan expressed his desire to direct a sequel to Batman Begins the outcome of this desire produced The Dark Knight in 2006, repeating a successful box office collection with $158 million in returns.
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie is an adaptation of The Prisoner a 1960s series based on the life of a British secret-agent. —www.christophernolan.org
http://www.theauteurs.com/cast_members/1126
Darren Aronofsky? I'd put him along with Nolan.Quote:
Originally Posted by ajithfederer
DiCaprio admits sci-fi film leaves him 'baffled'
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 09:59 AM
Leonardo DiCaprio can't understand the plot of his new science-fiction movie 'Inception'.
The actor - who stars in director Chris Nolan's new film 'Inception', which is set to be released later in the year - said he struggled to understand the concept behind the movie which is based on the idea that a technology can enter dreams and extract information from people's minds.
He said: "I don't know where to begin, it's really hard. I don't know what I'm supposed to say about it, but it's Chris Nolan delving into dream psychoanalysis and also making a high octane, action-filled, surreal film that is all spawned from his mind. He wrote the entire thing, and it all made sense to him."
The 35-year-old Hollywood star admitted the complex film left him completely baffled at times.
He told the Daily Telegraph: "It didn't make much sense to us when we were doing it, and we had to do a ton of detective work to try to figure out what the movie was and what we were doing from day to day, but, thank god, we had somebody who knew what he was doing."
Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakin...#ixzz0fbDdhQeJ
:lol: :thumbsup:
This one for sure comes under this category :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
My dear MarthaNdan
Prabhu confuses GM describing the qualities he expects in a girl
GM: ahahahahaha
SV: Ohohohoho
GM: enna purinjiruchA ?
SV: mhhm
GM: (chases him) naayE naanE puriyaama muzhichchitturukkEn... nee enna...unnai naan azhukku thuNiya thaanE adichchu thuvaichukka sonnEn
Adaada idhai ivvalo naal paakama vuttuten. Thanks kg.
Inception - Theatrical Trailer
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A cross of the Matrix and Minority Report perhaps?
Trust Nolan to get his casting right. Cotillard, Page, Caine, Gordon-Levitt, Watanabe :notworthy:
Di Caprio with another mind-bender after Shutter Island. And hell, that's a RELATIVELY simpler film that people FOUND to be very complicated. This is a complete Chris Nolan film. Jonathan isn't credited ! :)
And a tinge of "Dark City" too. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by vibinrajmani
duhhh. Nolan is much more than that.
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Originally Posted by vibinrajmani
There will never be a film like "The Matrix" for decades.
There's a lot of interesting themes at play in "Minority report", a bit underrated among Spielberg's films IMO.
Yes, my favorite film of all-time! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
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Christopher Nolan's 'Inception' -- Hollywood's first existential heist film
Inception," the 39-year-old director's seventh feature film and his first foray into science fiction, combines the perception riddles of "Memento" and the sheer scale of "Dark Knight" with its $160-million budget and location shoots in Morocco, France, Japan and three other countries. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a specialist in the new branch of corporate espionage -- he's a dream thief who plucks secrets from the minds of tycoons after pumping them full of drugs and hooking them up to a mysterious contraption. The problem, though, is the land of nod can be volatile -- as can DiCaprio's character, Dom Cobb, who is a wounded dreamer after the loss of his beloved wife.
The movie may be Hollywood's first existential heist movie, and though that may not sound like typical fare for the air-conditioning months, Warners and Legendary Pictures are banking on the movie catching on as a brainy "Mission: Impossible" by way of "The Matrix." In other words, the globe-trotting movie may have had its subconscious baggage packed by Sigmund Freud, but it also carries a passport stamped by Ian Fleming. DiCaprio says Nolan is the perfect director to turn that unlikely combination into a July hit.
Complex and ambiguous are the perfect way to describe the story," DiCaprio said in a recent phone interview. "And it's going to be a challenge to ultimately pull it off. But that is what Chris Nolan specializes in. He has been able to convey really complex narratives that work on a multitude of different layers ... and make it entertaining and engaging throughout. You look at 'Insomnia' or 'Memento,' these movies are working on so many different levels. That's his expertise; it's what he does best, as a matter of fact."
For Nolan, "Inception" was an elusive dream. "I wanted to do this for a very long time; it's something I've thought about off and on since I was about 16," Nolan said during a break in shooting last summer. "I wrote the first draft of this script seven or eight years ago, but it goes back much further, this idea of approaching dream and the dream life as another state of reality."
"I originally wrote it as a heist movie, and heist movies traditionally are very deliberately superficial in emotional terms," Nolan said. "They're frivolous and glamorous, and there's a sort of gloss and fun to it. I originally tried to write it that way, but when I came back to it I realized that -- to me -- that didn't work for a film that relies so heavily on the idea of the interior state, the idea of dream and memory. I realized I needed to raise the emotional stakes. What we found in working on 'Batman' is that it's the emotionalism that best connects the audience with the material. The character issues, those are the things that pull the audience through it and amplify the experience no matter how strange things get."
more to read......
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/hero...ist-film-.html
Next Batman Movie, tentatively titled as Batman 3 is slated for release on July 20,2012. To be directed by Chris Nolannnnnn. Hope it will break TDK opening weekend record
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBSuSJsjBow
April 06, 2010 — Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) shares more information on his upcoming movie, Inception. Emma Thomas(Wife and Producer) also shares her opinions.
Nolan says that he grew up being a huge fan of Stanley Kubrick's 2001.
:).
Any hint at who the villan is going to be?Quote:
Originally Posted by m_karthik
Joker again? Without Heath?
The Riddler? Only person who's played it in the past was Jim Carey. He suited it well. :P
The Penguin? :? Maybe....
I'm sure Joker will get a prolific actor it deserves after the magnitude of Heath's achievements.
Will Jonathan get back to working with Chris on this film, after the Spielberg project? Or the script is already written?
As for Inception, somehow the trailer doesn't entice as much as his other film trailers have in the past. For example, The Prestige and The Dark knight were far more hard-hitting. This seems more sleek and has all the makings of a layered Sci-Fi thriller.
Return of the Joker and his punch dialogs, the action set-piece, promise of two-face, etc Above all the title made TDK arresting with promise of darkness even before it released. Visually, the film looked as bleak as Heat-meets-Blade Runner. So the interest and expectation went several notches up after the trailer.
The Prestige trailer promised a face to face tussle and a conflict between two characters like TDK, and the artifice of magic in conjunction with structure of the film, namely the three acts - The Pledge, the turn and the Prestige - in connotations of three-act play/drama.
Again, I'm not saying Inception is going to be a lesser film. But Nolan is yet to shake us with as good a trailer as his last two features..
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief in the art of "extraction," stealing secrets from deep within the unconscious mind during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him valuable in corporate espionage. In one last job, he must cause an "inception" – instead of stealing an idea, he must plant one. Christopher Nolan, the director of the movie, was quoted as saying "We don't do magic. Everything in Inception has a basis in reality, except for the technology" – apparently referring to the absence of metaphysical content in the film. :clap:
The official plot synopsis is as follows:
"Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the unconscious mind during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb’s rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible—inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. This summer, your mind is the scene of the crime."[4]
From wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception_(film)
Sooperappu!!!!
Nolan says, "Without getting into specifics, the key thing that makes the third film a great possibility for us is that we want to finish our story. And in viewing it as the finishing of a story rather than infinitely blowing up the balloon and expanding the story . . . I’m very excited about the end of the film, the conclusion, and what we’ve done with the characters. My brother has come up with some pretty exciting stuff."Quote:
Originally Posted by Stiglitz
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/hero...c-story-1.html
On June 4, 2010 Christopher Nolan spoke with Empire magazine and confirmed that the Joker will not return. When asked he said, “No…I just don’t feel comfortable about it.”
http://thefilmstage.com/2010/06/04/c...alks-superman/
I read somewhere that Joseph Gordon-Levitt (500 days of summer, Inception) will play the antagonist in Batman 3.
// Anyone feel like this 500 DOS guy looks like younger brother of Heath ledger? :lol: I felt like that while watching 500 DOS. //Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
// :yes: ...he does//Quote:
Originally Posted by Siv.S
There was an interesting analogy and superimposition of film/drama (three act) structure vis-a-vis artifice of 'Magic' in The Prestige.
While Following was in regards to 'voyeuristic' deceit..Memento was in regards to 'memory' and the 'photographic'..
Inception will now incept into "dream"-like meta state that Films, when it's done best, often metamorphose into. Forget 3-D etc (even if we watch in 2-D on screen, the characters on the screen registers in our brain as 3-D in both visual and visceral level). Film itself is a metaphysical/magic-like medium that 'make believes', and by that, it is analogous to 'dream'. And filmmaking's basis is also in reality like the latter, the manifestation and surreal-ization of 'realism' does also finds its roots in 'Dream'. Of course, Matrix does it to the most expansive and extensive level. As does Cronenberg's films like Videodrome and ExistenZ in a somewhat exaggerated, farcical manner, without divorcing the human center.
I particularly appreciate Nolan for finding such cogent and relevant concept/themes that this medium deserves!
This is a FDFS material (but I said that for Toy story 3 as well, which I haven't watched yet :oops: )
hope it releases here too on 16th...but no trailers/posters yet, tho in the big cinemas website it's shown as releasing on 16th...the last airbender/SALT trailers/posters etc r being shown in big cinemas here when i went for raavanan... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
In PVR Chennai, they have a scroller for 'Inception'. Not sure if it has a simultaneous release..
Apparently, The Last Airbender is the last nail into Shyamalan's coffin. :oops: :(
Inception review, you can read the full review here in this link, i have not posted the plot here...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...04102197.story
In a summer of remakes, reboots and sequels comes "Inception," easily the most original movie idea in ages.
Now "original" doesn't mean its chases, cliffhangers, shoot-outs, skullduggery and last-minute rescues. Movies have trafficked in those things forever. What's new here is how writer-director Christopher Nolan repackages all this with a science-fiction concept that allows his characters to chase and shoot across multiple levels of reality.
This is, in some ways, a con-game movie, only the action takes place entirely within the characters' minds while they dream.
Following up on such ingenious and intriguing films as "The Dark Knight" and "Memento," Nolan has outdone himself. "Inception" puts him not only at the top of the heap of sci-fi all-stars, but it also should put this Warner Bros. release near or at the top of the summer movies. It's very hard to see how a film that plays so winningly to so many demographics would not be a worldwide hit.
Not that the film doesn't have its antecedents. "Dreamscape" (1984) featured a man who could enter and manipulate dreams, and, of course, in "The Matrix" (1999) human beings and machines battled on various reality levels created by artificial intelligence.
In "Inception," Nolan imagines a new kind of corporate espionage wherein a thief enters a person's brain during the dream state to steal ideas. This is done by an entire team of "extractors" who design the architecture of the dreams, forge identities within the dream and even pharmacologically help several people to share these dreams.
Bottom Line: A devilishly complicated, fiendishly enjoyable sci-fi voyage across a dreamscape that is thoroughly compelling.
One more review
http://movies.ign.com/articles/110/1103912p1.html
With Inception, Nolan has made his equivalent to The Big Sleep (ironic given the subject matter of Nolan's film), a thriller whose near indecipherable storyline will boggle minds decades to come -- or even his 2001, a genre opus guaranteed to confound or amaze viewers. Or is it Nolan's finally realized attempt at making a James Bond film? Or a heist thriller to rival Heat? A better version of Dreamscape? Inception is all of the above, and yet it's also a singular accomplishment from a filmmaker who has only gotten better with each film. Indeed, Inception could very well be Nolan's masterpiece.
Read a review on "Inception" book-ended with 'Kubrick would have been proud'. Preceded by 'dazzling mindtrip'. Not that I cringed, but it's absurd to someone (like me) who regards Nolan to be a very different filmmaker..
Here's the review:
http://www.boxofficemagazine.com/rev...0-07-inception