Christopher Nolan on his career, including Oppenheimer and the Batman triology | BFI in conversation 

-Neeeerd -30 years later Nolan is billionaire

​@@ivan4087Steven Spielberg is already a billionaire

@@nobad6843 yeah all these nerds are billinaires now

Nolan isn't thinking about those tiktok brains

Yes. Thanks for addressing.

Westward co created by him.

westworld💗

Privilege*

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*Prestige

Greatest already, honestly

Not one of but is

Prestiege is not

I’m still not over the plot twist of the prestige!

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He's not even close to the top of his game. He's got far more potential than he's putting out. We have yet to see his best movie. Yet he's arguably the best director living today.

​@@joewas2225dickriding or PR?

​@@joewas2225agreed. I think his best film will wind up being something smaller and more intimate, a la Prestige or Memento.

​@@joewas2225not the best, but one of the best Best is just extreme and ridiculous opinion 😂

​@@nobad6843Yes, he's Best. It's a Subjective Opinion.

I would love to see Pearce & Nolan work together again.

Gajni better than memento

Been wanting them to work together again too!

It's a Shame for Academy That they never recognised him as a Director.

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No one is underrating The Prestige, you goon!!

dude I agree the plot twist was insane

No you weren't

Such an interstellar director 😉

@@jurgenmathiae6682 Did you know he made a film called “Interstellar”

Yep it's like when a promising rookie QB comes out of college into the NFL and is immediately thrown out there day 1 and gets destroyed. A lot of guys never recover from that.

Which fukin studio gives 100M to new directors after getting small success?😂 U have to prove by atleast 3 good films

​@@nobad6843Josh Trank and Colin Treverrow come to mind.

​@@electrictwilight Also Chloe Zhao - went from completely small-scale, indie films straight to Marvel, lol

Stop acting like he’s not the most beloved mainstream director of the 21st century.

Oscars mean absolutely nothing. It's just a popularity contest that pays the academy the most. Look it up. His work speaks for itself, who needs awards?

@@jk12340I mean until TDK and Inception, he was the underdog, he should have won for the Prestige, so it makes sense that so many of us are rooting for him.

@@tamilanimatedstories5610 Maybe not a win for The Prestige, but at least a nomination. Scorsese was long overdue when they gave him Best Director & Best Picture for The Departed. But The Prestige is pretty much equal to The Departed in my view, so a nomination for Nolan would have been appropriate. The Prestige got snubbed pretty hard with zero nominations in major categories. And they continued the nomination snubs with The Dark Knight, Inception, and Interstellar. Finally gave him nominations for Best Director & Best Picture on Dunkirk.

@@Nova-fh2etyou’re right. But in all fairness, it would be *cool* to see our boy get his.

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@@cumpanions8105The writer is inviting you to share in her pleasure. What’s wrong with that?

Awesome!!

That's actually a brilliant question to ask Mr Nolan! Awesome 😀

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I think she did a good job. Problem here is Nolan is overexposed to media over past 9 months. With Actors strike, he was made to carry marketing in the final week and he is still on during awards season. I dont think I have seen so much of Nolan in last 2 decades of watching his movies. Even during Dark Knight or Dark Knight Rises mania, he did not have to be so much front and center as he is now.

Agreed, she is a poor interviewer and you can tell there was little preparation, which is a shame. The same old questions.

I prefer the one with Arnie and George Clooney myself

Hoyt seems to prefer a more yellow/green white point than Wally did. Wally tended towards blues which I prefer. It's not like some sort of big drop-off though and frankly the skin tones between both cinematographers feel largely the same. As far as shot selection I don't feel like there's a huge disparity there.

@@cinemaatobYup , looks a wee bit more greyish dull with Hoytema which worked well for Dunkirk imo. But yea prefer the more "colorful" work done by Pfister.

Hoyte is the subtler, yet plays a significant role in gauging the depth of the frame, colour wise. It just looks far more stunning.

The Dark Knight Rises is favorite film of his partly for that reason. Nolan, Pfister, Smith, and Zimmer all knocked it out of the park for that one.

@@MaxwellSmartOddy valid

Same.

Great movie. I think a lot of his fan base joined after the Batman movies, so they see him just as that. Oppenhiemer I really like, but The Prestige is still the best thing he's made in my opinion. I re watch it regularly. Don't get me started on the 'does the Tesla machine actually work?' debate!

The Prestige is my favorite but Oppenheimer is a damn good movie.

What? He's literally been a superstar director since the Dark Knight.

What are you talking about? Guy has been popular since Memento and a household name since The Dark Knight

we see what you did there jimmy. Brilliant comment. it’s about time…because Nolan loves the theme of time

He's literally one of the biggest box office draws in history, has numerous awards, and constantly talked about lol

Lol, good one.

Who’s ‘our’?

Agree so much. They give anyone these jobs don't they? Such a terrible interviewer.

1-Use an Ad blocker OR - 2-Pay for RU-vid premium

I actually dont mind ads ( I was raised with terrestrial TV ) but an ad every 4 mins is killing my investment in the subject matter and ability to retain interest. My ad blocker is selective vid to vid as to when it decides to block ads.

I only saw 4 ads

Yes. I felt the same. To me, Tenet is the most intriguing movie made by Nolan.

She talked about it

It's not disrespectful its simply a matter of time. Relax

I'd bet you $1000 he gets Snubbed again. I'm that confident he won't get it. He should've gotten one long before now & been snubbed too many times. Look at Kubrick & Hitchcock. They're regarded as some of the best Directors of all time & never got an Oscar. Neither one of them made a bad movie.

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No. Tenet was releasing again!

It was a time-jumping joke.

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I'm feeling okay now but you have to realize I didn't see your hand and just blindly assumed you were waiting through. JES-DUH-LOL😮

I typed walking through? Nodding to pass on by.

Someone/thing moves around my cursor. Why the Nolans and I need to save the world.

They cut out all the movie clips that were originally shown, probably to avoid copyright claims/demonitisation/deletion etc.

Goyer is making second season of sandman w/neil gaiman. Jonah is releasing fallout on amazon prime.

Jonah Nolan actually did Person of Interest and Westworld after TDKR. I think he’s doing alright 👍🏾

I one beer why too.

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YES WE NEED A SCI FI OR FANTASY FROM NOLAN

Sir I’m no fan of his but Inception was genius. At what part in that film was it mind numbingly stupid?

@@southlondon86 I said they can be and are at times. I didn't single out Inception. That movie's biggest fault is being overly saturated with expository dialogue but otherwise it didn't have many dumb moments that stand out to me.

I think movies aren't for you if you're seriously saying Interstellar "made no sense"

@@hamadhasan6630 Even astrophysicist Neil DeGrass Tyson said the premise they used for leaving the Earth in the film did not make sense. Anne Hathaway's "love is another dimension" rant was ridiculous because it was built on the assumption that loving people who have already died has no utility which is laughably false. The time-loop handshake also made no sense because it falsely postulates that once you have witnessed a "future event" you cannot change it. Nolan used the same contradictory logic in Tenet. When Cooper is reunited with his daughter at the end, her family unceremoniously leaves the room not even acknowledging Cooper. This is their ancestor, the most amazing event in human history is taking place at that moment in that room & Cooper is just treated like a regular hospital visitor. And then he just leaves his daughter there to go score with Anne Hathaway? Not a chance. Interstellar is one of Nolan's dumbest films in my opinion.

Honestly you're right. Everytime I watch one of his films I feel like I "want" to like it, but there's always a little something somewhere that just ruins it. Interstellar was overall great but the "LoVe" thing was just cringe, and Tenet and Dunkirk were pretty forgettable.

I largely agree and think Jonathan's writing influence is missed particularly with dialogue. Having said that, Nolan is taking much bigger creative risks now than those earlier films. That's part of it too.

couldnt disagree more. although i enjoyed the prestige, i think inception was nothing more than a smarter version of james bond (with a great soundtrack). interstallar....again, great soundtrack but didnt love the movie. i put dunkirk and oppenheimer in his top 3 movies along with memento.