Christopher Nolan Archive

  • Nerd Love = Loving nerdly things, not nerds loving each other. That’s okay. Loving nerdly things is a self-validating (self-flattering?) exercise: evidence of elevated taste. And I’ve loved the Brothers […]

    Problem with Nerd Love

    Nerd Love = Loving nerdly things, not nerds loving each other. That’s okay. Loving nerdly things is a self-validating (self-flattering?) exercise: evidence of elevated taste. And I’ve loved the Brothers […]

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  • Why superheroes, and why now? The obvious answer involves film technology – previous to the CGI era, it was just too difficult to make superheroes plausible. What can be done […]

    The Dark Knight Rises

    Why superheroes, and why now? The obvious answer involves film technology – previous to the CGI era, it was just too difficult to make superheroes plausible. What can be done […]

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  • The Dark Knight Rises is, like Christopher Nolan’s other Batman films, a gutsy, imaginative crime drama that dines on dread. Ultimately, Nolan’s choices as a director leave viewers wanting more. […]

    The Dark Knight Rises

    The Dark Knight Rises is, like Christopher Nolan’s other Batman films, a gutsy, imaginative crime drama that dines on dread. Ultimately, Nolan’s choices as a director leave viewers wanting more. […]

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  • Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) was a remarkably successful film. The first comic-book movie since Superman that positioned and took its main character seriously, it had a production design that, in […]

    The Dark Knight

    Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) was a remarkably successful film. The first comic-book movie since Superman that positioned and took its main character seriously, it had a production design that, in […]

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