• VOTD: 'The Films Of [Christopher Nolan]'

    From the earliest installments of his "[the films of]" project, I've noticed /Film commenters wondering if and when Kees van Dijkhuizen would get around to spotlighting Christopher Nolan. The British director inspires fervent devotion from movie geeks as few other filmmakers do, thanks to his wildly ambitious imagination, his masterful storytelling, and his eye for cool…

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  • Christopher Nolan's Longstanding Practice Of "Fridging" Female Characters

    With Inception, The Prestige and each of his Batman films, Christopher Nolan has firmly established himself as one of the rare filmmakers working today who can not only produce complex, character-driven entertainment on the studio's dime, but can command an audience while doing it. Women viewers, though, would be forgiven for dismissing themselves from that…

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  • How The Dark Knight Went IMAX

    I’ve said it before, and ’ll say it again - You haven’t seen The Dark Knight, unless you’ve seen it in IMAX. OVer 20 minutes of the film was shot with 70mm IMAX cameras, and the result is a cinematic experience like you’ve never seen before. But how did this all come together? “It was…

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