Christopher Nolan‘s first film to hit the big time was Memento, a dark, genre-bending piece of cinema starring Guy Pearce, the script for which Nolan co-wrote with his brother Jonathan.
He followed that up with Insomnia, which pitted Al Pacino against a villainous Robin Williams in a perpetually light Alaska. Though somewhat less original than Memento, it still did the job of a psychological thriller very well.
I wasn’t super keen on The Prestige, with Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as rival magicians, but with Batman Begins, and later, The Dark Knight, Nolan returned to the visionary filmmaking he demonstrated in Memento.
I’m hoping that Inception, with its stellar cast and mindboggling conceit – Leonardo DiCaprio can mess with your dreams (like a better looking version of the BFG?) – will prove to be another Nolan masterwork.
Hey welcome back! So looking forward to this as well, so many films to catch up on, so little time… what do you recommend?