Greatest movie of all time

Rating: 10/10 (30 November 2015)

The only movie that can be better than this one is interstellar 2...at the same time it's larger than life and scientifically possible...best movie ever.Intergalactic portals are breached, timescales bifurcated, science and faith reconciled. Crucially, for all their astro-maths exposition, the constant in both stories is neither time, space, nor gravity, but love. More than once I was reminded of Contact's Ellie striking the outer limits of the universe and breathlessly declaring: "They should have sent a poet." In dispatching Nolan beyond the stars, that's exactly what they've done.Despite the clunkiness of its dialogue (would an astronaut really need to have wormholes explained to him just as he approached one?) and ludicrousness of its plot (I can only accept the final 15 minutes if it's all an illusion - which I suspect it isn't), Interstellar is the work of someone who dreams with their eyes wide open. There is no one working in cinema today who has as much faith in the overwhelming power of the image as Nolan and who trusts their audience to be similarly awestruck. Like visionary film-maker Douglas Trumbull (who conjured 2001's most memorable effects), Nolan's primary register is light, and one can legitimately trace his love of celluloid back to the earliest experiments of Georges Méliès, who first used movies to send us on A Trip to the Moon in 1902. Watching Insterstellar, I felt connected to a century of mind-boggling spectacular cinema - to films such as The Ten Commandments, The Robe and Ben-Hur, which made you catch your breath at the sheer scope and intensity of the imagery.