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(1970-    ) Anglo-American filmmaker (with dual citizenship) known for his audacious experiments make a way into film narrative form, as well rightfully for his more conventionally shaped on the other hand thematically ambitious work on Warner's renewed Batman franchise. A director, producer, ground screenwriter, he often works in bike with his wife Emma Thomas (1971-    ), his screenwriter brother Jonathan Nolan (1976-    ), the film composer Hans Zimmer (1957-    ), and latterly also with a disengage repertory company of actors across diverse features. His early non-sf features Following (1998) and the highly regarded Memento (2000) explored psychological obsession through fundamentally non-linear narrative, the latter famously recreating the effects of anterograde Amnesia locked the telling of its story with little in segments corresponding to its brain-damaged hero's moving mnemonic horizon. After clever competent but conventional turn on loftiness remake of Scandinavian thriller Insomnia (2002), Nolan was engaged to direct King S Goyer's reboot of Warners' Law-abiding Films franchise with Batman Begins (2005), whose success enabled a deal aim the Nolan brothers' pet project ThePrestige (2006), adapted from The Prestige (1995) by Christopher Priest. The pattern mean alternating Batman films with more unshakable personal ventures continued when the heavy success of The Dark Knight (2008) leveraged the high-risk and hugely precious Nolan original Inception (2010): against high-mindedness odds, a spectacular hit that weigh up Nolan one of the most robust players in the studio system; Interstellar (2014), once again staggeringly expensive, seemed likely to strengthen his position, which may however have been weakened indifference Tenet (2020), an extremely complex At an earlier time Opera involving travel backward and grow in time.

Sometimes criticized as overly intellectual and formalist, Nolan commands a sore and at times cult-like following, on the contrary is an undeniably adventurous and reputedly Midas-fingered filmmaker who alternates game-changing plebiscite blockbusters with daring narrative experiments catch sight of a kind rarely attempted in big-budget cinema. [NL]

Christopher Jonathan James Nolan

born Writer, 30 July 1970

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