Read on Twitter
Nolan Filmography Binge
(a thread)
(a thread)
Binging all of his films pre-TENET, and yeah it’s last minute but I’m all about last minutes. Only directorial credits included. Won’t be including his two earliest shorts, Tarantella and Larceny, since I can’t find those two anywhere and yeah, I’ll be doing this chronologically!
We start with his 1997 psychological thriller short film, DOODLEBUG. Am quite a big fan of this. It’s where he first started so I’m always big on it.
#NW Doodlebug.
#NW Doodlebug.
Simple but it’s always had quite a deep affect on me and my love for Nolan as a filmmaker. Admirably a good start for him, exemplifying his latter ambition, esepcially in how he showcases the possibilities our universe holds in its own infiniteness. https://boxd.it/1js3H3
Up for his feature directorial debut with 1998 film, FOLLOWING. Not seen this in years so I’m intrigued as to how I’ll react to it now. Excited!
#NW Following.
#NW Following.
I like using gif title cards for my Now Watching tweets on the thread but I couldn’t find any for FOLLOWING besides this picture. But anyways, I’ll be watching that. His first feature.
His feature debut is something I respeeed more than I did then. Nice seeing it after all this years. Forgot to mention the soundtrack but it’s sensational. The film’s a wholly, very admirable early work from Nolan. https://boxd.it/1jsnrf
Another one for tonight and it’s the 2000 film that first made Nolan a bigger name, MEMENTO. One of my favourites from him and certainly one of his most unique and genius works.
#NW Memento.
#NW Memento.
AGAIN, no official gif of the title card in the opening sequence so here’s a picture of it... I don’t know why I have this weird obsession with title cards but yeah, here’s to MEMENTO.
I love MEMENTO. One of my early favourites from Nolan and certainly one of his most intriguing with the non-linear structure people have come to know him for. Certainly a lot of interesting themes in it that I talk about briefly in this review! https://boxd.it/1jvWe7
Forgot to mention but I saw MEMENTO in 35mm film earlier this year at The Prince Charles Cinema and I just adored, not only the film, but the theatre experience of seeing a NOLAN film on film, in one of my favourite indie cinemas.
Thrilling, exciting experience that!
Thrilling, exciting experience that!
Further, I think MEMENTO’s ending further plays into my words on it and why exactly I love it. It’s an observation of ourselves, a reflection that critiques our moralities and immoralities and where our own secrets bring us in our paths.
It’s a journey of discovering the self.
It’s a journey of discovering the self.
Next up, for today afternoon, we’ll be watching the underrated 2002 film that first got Nolan working with bigger names, INSOMNIA. It comes as my second rewatch this year since I saw it on 35mm earlier this year, in February, I think.
#NW Insomnia.
#NW Insomnia.
AND YET AGAIN, no gif for the title card so I had to use something different but here’s the title card for Nolan’s most underrated film.
INSOMNIA is definitely his most underrated film, and as a whole a very unique spin on the thriller genre, with a very personal, witty and emotional psychological game of morality and guilt. I adore it. https://boxd.it/1jww7B
Like I mentioned in the review, I just love how this becomes a smaller, more personal and emotionally intimate battle from being a broad, bigger and more wide investigation of a murder. Didn’t realised it when I rewatched it 35mm earlier this year.
I know I’m supposed to do this binge chronologically but I wanted to do The Dark Knight trilogy as a whole, so I’ll be starting this film (which I found a gif title card for) first. So firstly, THE PRESTIGE.
#NW The Prestige.
#NW The Prestige.
So, the order right now will still sort of be chronological but I’ll go: THE PRESTIGE - BATMAN BEGINS - THE DARK KNIGHT - THE DARK KNIGHT RISES - INCEPTION, then the rest. Rewatched THE PRESTIGE in 35mm earlier this year too so this rewatch isn’t that particular new.
THE PRESTIGE is always such a fun ride despite its dark paths of bitter reinvention, rivalry and finality. It’s a pristine, magical thrill of mystical heights, and it goes beyond that magic in its thematically exploration of rebirth and the loss of self. https://boxd.it/1jx7ux
THE PRESTIGE is badass and just such a thrill in the realm of magic. And it goes beyond the magic and falsities of human ambition to truly look at the deterrents that come with these falsities, in how we are reborn through reinvention and how that makes us lose individualism.
YES, I did watch THE PRESTIGE on 35mm film earlier this year but it’s still as good on my TV. Any of his films on celluloid are a cinematic experience to truly behold and savour fully. I feel like I didn’t say it because it’s been said but it explores the obsession of art well.
And what I meant to say with what I said above is THE PRESTIGE is a truly final and deep exploration of the obsession that follows an artist with their art. The obsession of art that leads them down final and fatal paths. It’s a mix of beautiful passion and terrifying obsession.
I am now starting BATMAN BEGINS, which I hold so close and dear to my heart, but I’ve just got say happily, TITLE CARD GIF !!!!
#NW Batman Begins.
#NW Batman Begins.
First day into my Nolan marathon and I’m already done with half of it (since I’m including his short, and his doc - which I’ll probably get to tomorrow/Mon - in the marathon).
But yeah, being down with BATMAN BEGINS means I’m halfway done with all 12 (minus his new 13th).
But yeah, being down with BATMAN BEGINS means I’m halfway done with all 12 (minus his new 13th).
Yeah, BATMAN BEGINS still hits very hard, and I’m still very much in love with it as an origin story, as a film, and as a tale of growth, facing fear and finding your own identity. https://boxd.it/1jyuTH
BATMAN BEGINS also has one of my favourite line deliveries ever - a chilling line of excitement from Cillian Murphy’s Scarecrow, and I think that makes it an even better film. I truly do love the early-2000s superhero mixed with darker, Nolan and 2010s feel of this film.
Next up, Nolan’s most beloved film I’d say: THE DARK KNIGHT. I just really love this trilogy and I do consider it the best, so this being the best out of the three, I look highly upon it as the best of the best. Top-tier filmmaking for me.
#NW The Dark Knight.
#NW The Dark Knight.
It doesn’t matter how much I’ve seen THE DARK KNIGHT, like I just literally saw it last week but every single time Heath makes his first entrance as the Joker and says that famous line, I just start smiling and feeling an immense cheer in me.
Immaculate entrance.
Immaculate entrance.
It’s incredible how masterful this feels so early on. It’s like yeah, you just started this, and it’s already so immaculate in its direction and its production, and so magisterial in how it’s been made. That’s just how great THE DARK KNIGHT really is.
I’m sorry for geeking over THE DARK KNIGHT because I love it so much, but everything about this film is just so perfect and pristinely polished: Nolan’s assured directing, the wittily smart script, the adept performances, the production, Zimmer’s peerless score. It’s all so good!
I geek out about morality and talk way too much in this review but I just love THE DARK KNIGHT and all it stands for and all it is capable of doing within 2 and a half hours. It is understandably one of the greatest. https://boxd.it/1jzyrz
I also briefly geek out on watching THE DARK KNIGHT on 15/70mm IMAX, which I watched it in earlier this year in March, three-ish days before cinemas shut down. This was Nolan’s first time utilising 15/70 IMAX and if you have access to it, it is literally the best format. Godly.
It’s 6am so obviously I’m just now starting THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, which features my favourite joke maker slash quotable role model, Bane. This is the perfect finale.
#NW The Dark Knight Rises.
#NW The Dark Knight Rises.
Yes, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, then after this only INCEPTION and his other films so slightly off the chronological experience but still on point of that journey. Also, just the beginning of this film playing now and it’s so good and masterful. CIA vs Bane on a plane is everything!
I just wanna mention how freaking underrated Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. His small little nuances in this are perfect and he’s just so good in his line deliveries in this. Great stuff.
I think after THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, I’m going to see QUAY, his short doc, so then I can see INCEPTION, INTERSTELLAR AND DUNKIRK in continuous fashion instead of pausing for QUAY. Guess I am going against my chronological promise I made to myself.
Okay, diverting my attention back to THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Bane goes to Gotham’s Wall Street. It’s just like everything he does in this film is so absurd, so comical but so cinematic and badass. Bane is just menacing but comedic? I love it.
The epic, brooding, masterful finale to The Dark Knight trilogy with THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. I adore the theatricality and amplitude of this absolutely gigantic finale and film. https://boxd.it/1jD9St
I love THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, despite the conflict against it. And I think it’s an even better experience on 15/70mm IMAX, just a profound, massive theatrical experience.
Just the practicality and scale of this film is huge, and Bane is such a brooding character. Love it all!
Just the practicality and scale of this film is huge, and Bane is such a brooding character. Love it all!
Haha so I’ve already started and I forgot to watch QUAY before so this will be a bit more chronological, but yeah I am now seeing INCEPTION. This started playing and I’m just smiling because I love this so much!
#NW Inception.
#NW Inception.
I’ll be honest, it isn’t my all-time favourite but I love INCEPTION as much as INTERSTELLAR.
Also, the INCEPTION title doesn’t appear at the start of the film so I just used a custom title card gif.
Anyways back to one of the greatest, most entertaining films!
Also, the INCEPTION title doesn’t appear at the start of the film so I just used a custom title card gif.
Anyways back to one of the greatest, most entertaining films!
I don’t have much to say but I just wanted to post this gif because it is awesome but yeah even though I just watched INCEPTION a few weeks ago on Nolan’s birthday but it’s still so exciting, entertaining, suspenseful, thrilling and ambitious to me. It’s literally so precious!
So after INCEPTION, this gorgeous, mind-bending masterpiece of a film I’m on right now, I’ve got only three more films: INTERSTELLAR, QUAY and DUNKIRK. I’m nearly done with all 12 films (with a short and doc included) in just 2 days. I’ve sped through this insanely quickly.
Popping in once more because I feel the need to once again comment on the insane (practical) hallway fight. The choreography is astounding and just so cool. Paired with Zimmer’s major bwam bwam’s, it is a massive banger of a scene.
INCEPTION. It’s a showstopper and it’s one of the greatest, most entertaining experiences. It’s as ambitious as it gets, with a truly human scope of self-security amidst the perils of criminality, along with the discovery of how far the human mind can go. https://boxd.it/1jElox
Instead of watching my all-time favourite first (because my initial screening got stopped 10 mins in since I had to do something) I will now watch QUAY instead. Yes, Nolan’s short doc on the renowned Quay brothers and their works. Again, couldn’t find a title card gif.
#NW Quay.
#NW Quay.
My review for QUAY is essentially a small love letter to Nolan from me, in how I admire his ambition and his passion, parallel to how this doc is his love letter to the Quay Brothers and their intimate but highly unique and passionate style of filmmaking. https://boxd.it/1jFlcD
So, on my Nolan marathon, or more of a binge, I only have my favourite, INTERSTELLAR, and his war epic, DUNKIRK left to see. I will probably finish both of them tomorrow, aka in the morning/noon later today since I’m only running on 2 hours of sleep, it’s 3am and I’m dead tired.
Time to actually watch my all-time favourite, INTERSTELLAR. I love this film so much, everyone knows that, and it means so much to me. I am always so glad to watch this, just knowing it’s the greatest of all-time, Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus.
#NW Interstellar.
#NW Interstellar.
It has the best title card opening! Makes me super emotional haha.
This film means so much to me and it’s such a gargantuan part of my life and it’s shaped me as a person.
So much love to Chris for this film.
This film means so much to me and it’s such a gargantuan part of my life and it’s shaped me as a person.
So much love to Chris for this film.
I know so many people complain about INTERSTELLAR’s runtime but I love the pacing. The film breezes by so quickly but still holds so much emotion and remains entirely cathartic, human and existentially meaningful. I love the editing and direction that eases the film wholly.
I’ve tried to refrain from posting videos on this thread, I don’t know why (?), but I couldn’t resist this one because the Messages From Home/Crossing Saturn scene from INTERSTELLAR is one of the most gorgeous, felt, profound scenes. Human love and emotion amidst the dark abyss.
