Film Studies 8-5 Christopher Nolan
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Christopher Nolan was born on
30 July 1970, London, England, UK
His English father, Brendan James Nolan, was an advertising executive, and his American mother, Christina, worked as a flight attendant and English teacher
His childhood was split between London and Chicago, and he has both British and American citizenship
While studying English Literature at University College London, he shot 16-millimetre films at U.C.L.'s film society, where he learned film making techniques
"I studied English Literature. I wasn't a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well."
After graduation, Nolan directed corporate videos
and industrial films
In 1998 Nolan directed his first feature, which he personally funded and filmed with friends
The following
1998
On a budget of around $6,000. The noir thriller was recognized at a number of international film festivals and gained Nolan enough credibility he was able to procure financing for his next film.
Nolan's second film was directed from his own screenplay based on a short story by his brother,
Jonathan
memento
2000
Memento brought Nolan
Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for
Best Original Screenplay
insomnia
2002
Batman
Batman begins
2005
the prestige
2006
Nolan's next film grossed more than 1 billion dollars at the world-wide box office
the dark knight
2008
He initially directed the Batman films so he could get funding and support for his bigger films like ...
inception
2010
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"I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. You don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting."
the dark knight rises
2012
"I am a fan of cinema that creates worlds, that creates an entire alternate universe that you could escape into for a couple of hours."
interstellar
2014
next?
Dunkirk
2017
