Christopher Nolan is the most recent auteur

Rating: 10/10 (19 November 2014)

In Christopher Nolan's most recent film he reaches out to a whole new audience by tackling the sci-fi genre of film making after already proving he is a powerhouse at re imagining comic-book blockbuster films. This film despite its many special affects was still shot primarily on IMAX film making this most likely one of the last movie ever to be shot on film.
The movie opens with a ear piercing and attention grabbing sound bite of Cooper (Matthew McConauhey) struggling through the controls of a futuristic aircraft that seems like it is going to crash right before a fade to black. Already the film has people's attention as it goes to the main setting in a farmland town. It is clearly stated that it is in the not so distant future however nothing is too out of the ordinary as far as the way we live and behave. Cooper is a farmer who only plants corn because that is the only plant that can grow without becoming infected. All the combines are controlled via a wireless GPS that Cooper installed so that they can harvest and drive themselves.
Meanwhile Cooper's family prepares for breakfast every morning by wiping down the entire kitchen from all the dirt collecting everywhere because of the dust bowls. However Murph the daughter is learning from what she thinks is a ghost in her room, from all the books that keep falling from the shelf and the taps she hears. Cooper dismisses it as a gravity/magnetic dysfunction that the house is on. However that is shelved when the dirt from outside falls in a peculiar pattern on the floor. Forcing Cooper to take a crack at the code the "ghost" is talking about only to discover that the code is binary and finds coordinates to the secret NASA facility.
From here Cooper is reunited with old colleagues from his astronaut days. He is told about the severe problem that earth is facing, and the supposed "beings" that created a worm hole for humans to go through and search for other sustainable planets. Cooper agrees to go even after the protest of his daughter Murph. It is an emotional goodbye and Cooper says that he and Murph might be the same age when he gets back.
The next hour and a half of the movie are filled with mind bending physics and mind blowing special affects. The four person crew heads from one check point to another checking for signs of life. The film does a great job of showing the strength and endurance of the human spirit and the desire for survival. The crew eventually hooks up with an astronaut (Dr. Mann) from a previous scouting mission and talk about the possibilities of setting up a new home for humanity. We soon figure out that Dr. Mann has been faking his data and plans to kill Cooper and his crew and leave them on the planet. Mann believes that humanity is dead and there is no hope left. However Cooper and his crew survive the attacks and Mann is killed trying to re bored the space station.
Cooper and what is left of his crew (just Anne Hathaway) are figuring out a way to get home by sling shooting around a black hole. However Cooper sacrifices himself to the black hole "saving" Hathaway. Cooper himself falls through the black hole into a parallel dimension esc place. It was at this point that everyone in the theater had their mind blown. Because Cooper was surrounded by structures that resemble the back of a back of a bookshelf. The same bookshelf in Murph's room. However thanks to the logic of time and space, he has come in a full circle of time just before he leaves for the space trip. It is soon realized that he is the "ghost" behind the bookshelf giving all the coordinates to Murph, and past version of himself. He is giving the future version of his daughter the missing calculations to the equation that will save humanity.
Cooper soon passes out in the black hole and is discovered by astronauts from about 50-60 years later. He has maybe aged a year, however Murph is an old lady and on her death bed. They are reunited and she tells him that he to go look for Anne Hathaway's character. He does. The movie ends.
This film is a modern day 2001: A Space Odyssey with its breathtaking cinematography and the special affect shots that will leave you speechless. It is classic Chris Nolan because the story is arguably non-linear. Throughout the film we see nods to different foreshadowing events that are just disguised as something else. As well as the fact that Nolan is a major Kubrik fan, and anyone who saw those two films and see some things that were in 2001 that inspired certain Interstellar scenes.
Interstellar is a modern day classic just like many of Nolan films that have been screened along with the ones in the future.