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When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here . TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE VOICE on September 7, 2013 Format: Blu-ray If you don't own any of director Christopher Nolan's films on blu-ray, then this would be the perfect box set for you. But if you're a long-time fan of Nolan's work, then I'd guess you probably own most or all of his films already... if that's the case then there's really no good reason to spend more money on this set. This set includes 6 Movies: - Memento - Following --> Following (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray ] ******* This is a re-release of the 2012 Nolan Collection set... Christopher Nolan Director's Collection (Memento / Insomnia / Batman Begins / The Dark Knight / Inception) [Blu-ray ]. The only difference is the inclusion of "The Dark Knight Rises" (which was not available on blu-ray at the time of the first set's release). It seems as though Warner Bros.

didn't put much additional effort into this re-release. They could have at least differentiated the box art or put new extras inside; or how about improved video transfers or some more special features on the discs? Most importantly, the set is still missing two Nolan movies - "Following" and "The Prestige". Read more › 11 people found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again By Anthony P. on September 19, 2016 Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase I purchased the Christopher Nolan Director's Collection (Memento / Insomnia / Batman Begins / The Dark Knight / Inception / The Dark Knight Rises) [Blu-ray]. Not much to say really. It's a great collection if you enjoy these Christopher Nolan films. I would have rated it a 5-star if the collection had also included The Prestige. My co-workers and I all agreed that The Prestige was our most favorite Nolan film but it's not in the collection... Comment One person found this helpful. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback.

Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again By Juan Carlos Reyes on September 16, 2015 Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase The packaging to this collection was better than I expected. Mainly bought this cause I wanted Inception (My favorite movie) on Blu-Ray. Also wanted to watch The Dark Knight Trilogy and Memento. Insomnia was a just bonus for me. I've only watched Memento, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Inception so far. With these 4 movies alone. Christopher Nolan is now my favorite director. This collection offers high quality movies. Not only saying the picture is great, but the movies themselves are great. Worth every penny. 1 Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again By Crossbow15 on January 12, 2015 Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase This is a rich collection of Christopher Nolan. I like each movie of them since I am a big fan of Christopher Nolan after watching Inception. the special features are quite a lot too. I can learn from the making of and those narration.

But still one thing could be better and that is the box package. Can you find somebody to design this box set? Comment Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Sending feedback... Thank you for your feedback. Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again By DragonXero on August 11, 2016 Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase My usual 4-star here because the movies are all excellent, the transfer is great, and it's quite inexpensive for 6 movies, including the Batman trilogy. There's nothing wrong here, but I'm not a drooling fanboy with these as I am with some of the 5-stars I have put up. Nolan knows how to make a suspenseful action movie, and that's all there is to say. You want a movie review, go to Rotten Tomatoes or something. Don't look at me. I've watched Battlefield Earth twice and I'm still alive. If you like the Batman movies, pick it up, because Memento is worth the extra cash on its own, and Shutter Island was really awesome. It's also packaged in a really pretty box with individual cases (almost said DVD), and it makes things, well, just so easy to organize.

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When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here . Ad feedback Editorial Reviews Brand Name: Ingram Entertainment Mfg#: 883929359561, Shipping Weight: 1.42 lbs, Manufacturer:, Genre: GIFT SET, All music products are properly licensed and guaranteed authentic. Product Details Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats. ) Rated: By Anthony P. on September 19, 2016 Format: Blu-ray|Verified Purchase I purchased the Christopher Nolan Director's Collection (Memento / Insomnia / Batman Begins / The Dark Knight / Inception / The Dark Knight Rises) [Blu-ray]. Not much to say really. It's a great collection if you enjoy these Christopher Nolan films. I would have rated it a 5-star if the collection had also included The Prestige. My co-workers and I all agreed that The Prestige was our most favorite Nolan film but it's not in the collection...

By Juan Carlos Reyes on September 16, 2015 Format: Blu-ray|Verified Purchase The packaging to this collection was better than I expected. Mainly bought this cause I wanted Inception (My favorite movie) on Blu-Ray. Also wanted to watch The Dark Knight Trilogy and Memento. Insomnia was a just bonus for me. I've only watched Memento, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Inception so far. With these 4 movies alone. Christopher Nolan is now my favorite director. This collection offers high quality movies. Not only saying the picture is great, but the movies themselves are great. Worth every penny. Christopher Nolan - IMDb IMDb Writer | Producer | Director Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear story-telling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970 in London, England. Over the course of 15 years of film-making, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made. At 7 years old, Nolan began making short movies ...

See full bio » Born: Famous Directors: From Sundance to Prominence From Christopher Nolan to Quentin Tarantino and every Coen brother in between, many of today's most popular directors got their start at the Sundance Film Festival . Here's a list of some of the biggest names to go from Sundance to Hollywood prominence. a list of 25 people created 23 Mar 2011 a list of 25 people created 25 Oct 2011 a list of 38 people created 10 Feb 2012 a list of 22 people created 02 Jan 2015 a list of 21 people created 09 Feb 2015 Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Christopher Nolan's work have you seen? User Polls Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 122 wins & 163 nominations.

See more awards » Known For 1989 Tarantella (TV Short) (producer) Hide 1997 Doodlebug (Short) (set designer - as Chris Nolan) Hide 2015 Quay (Documentary short) (music by) Hide 2015 An Act of War (very special thanks) 2013 Planet Krypton (Video documentary short) (special thanks) 2011 Exploring 'The Tree of Life' (Video documentary short) (special thanks) 2011 The Wronged One (TV Mini-Series) (special thanks - 3 episodes) - Sully You Scumbag! (2011) ... (special thanks) 2011 El defensor (Short) (the director wishes to thank) 2010 Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious (Video documentary) (special thanks) 2010/I Before Breakfast (Short) (very special thanks) 2008-2010 HBO First Look (TV Series documentary) (special thanks - 2 episodes) - Inception (2010) ...

(special thanks) 2005 Batman: The Journey Begins (Video documentary short) (special thanks) 2004 Mementos (Short) (special thanks: inspiration) Hide 2016 Academy Event: Heat (Video short) Himself - Moderator 2015 60 Minutes (TV Series documentary) Himself - Director (segment "Michael Caine") 2015 IMDb Asks (TV Series) Himself 2015 Inside 'Interstellar' (Video documentary) Himself 2014 CBS This Morning (TV Series) Himself - Director, Interstellar 2014 The Colbert Report (TV Series) Himself - Guest 2014 IMDb: What to Watch (TV Series documentary) Himself 2014 Good Morning America (TV Series) Himself - Guest 2014 Interstellar: Nolan's Odyssey (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2014 Rencontres de cinéma (TV Series) Himself 2012 Ending the Knight (Video documentary) Himself 2012 The Batmobile (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2012 Fantastic (TV Series documentary) Himself 2011 Exploring 'The Tree of Life' (

Video documentary short) Himself 2011 Remembering 'Memento' (Video short) Himself 2010 Scream Awards 2010 (TV Special) Himself 2010 Janela Indiscreta (TV Series) Himself 2010 The 7PM Project (TV Series) Himself 2010 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) Himself 2005-2010 HBO First Look (TV Series documentary) Himself 2010 Guys Choice (TV Movie) Himself 2008 Batman Tech (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2008 Batman Unmasked (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2006 Film 2016 (TV Series) Himself 2005 Batman: The Journey Begins (Video documentary short) Himself - Director / Co-Writer 2005 Batman: The Tumbler (Video documentary short) Himself - Director / Co-Writer 2005 Batman Begins: Path to Discovery (Video documentary short) Himself - Director / Co-Writer 2005 Cape and Cowl (Video documentary short) Himself - Director / Co-Writer 2005 Genesis of the Bat (Video

 documentary short) Himself - Director / Co-Writer 2005 Gotham City Rises (Video documentary short) Himself - Director / Co-Writer 2005 Saving Gotham City (Video documentary short) Himself - Director / Co-Writer 2005 Shaping Mind and Body (Video documentary short) Himself - Director / Co-Writer 2005 Charlie Rose (TV Series) Himself 2004 Memento: Interview with Christopher Nolan (Video documentary short) Himself 2003 The 100 Greatest Movie Stars (TV Movie documentary) Himself 2001 Anatomy of a Scene (TV Series documentary) Himself 2016 60 Minutes (TV Series documentary) Himself - Director (segment "Michael Caine") 2012 Too Young to Die (TV Series documentary) Himself - Episode #34.13 (2005) ...

Himself - Director / Co-Writer Related Videos 2 Biographical Movies | 5 Interviews | 3 Articles | See more » Alternate Names: Did You Know? Personal Quote: We're definitely well into a phase where our actors are not willing to brand themselves as movie stars, the way actors of the past did. When you look at a guy like Christian (Bale), whether he's wearing a mask or not, this is one of our great actors. But he wants to be different in every film. He doesn't want the audience to go to a 'Christian Bale movie'. He wants them to come see the character ... See more » Trivia: Received his Bachelor's degree in English Literature from University College London.

See more » Trademark: Never uses non-diegetic soundtrack music - soundtrack music is always used diegetically (that is, it is always played from a source within the film that the characters themselves can hear, like a radio..."Non, je ne regrette rien" by Edith Piaf was used by the characters as a kick in Inception (2010)) See more » Nickname: Rent Christopher Nolan Movies on DVD and Blu-ray - DVD Netflix Thrillers Christopher Nolan A noted director and screenwriter who split his boyhood between London and Chicago, Christopher Nolan was born July 30, 1970, in London. Because his father is British and his mother American, he has dual citizenship. Nolan released his first full-length feature, Following, in 1998. But it was his sophomore effort as a writer-director on Memento (2000) that really caught Hollywood's attention. Inspired by one of his brother Jonathan's short stories, Nolan crafted a disorienting psychological puzzle about a man who suffers short-term memory loss. Among other honors, the film earned Oscar nods for its screenplay and editing.

In the wake of Memento's success, Nolan signed on to the new Batman franchise, directing Batman Begins (2005) and The Dark Knight (2008). His other credits include Insomnia (2002), The Prestige (2006) and Inception (2010), which brought him a Golden Globe nomination for Best Director. Christopher Nolan - Biography - IMDb Christopher Nolan Biography Showing all 128 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (3) | Spouse (1) | Trade Mark (35) | Trivia (42) | Personal Quotes (40) | Salary (3) Overview (4) 5' 11¼" (1.81 m) Mini Bio (3) Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear story-telling, acclaimed writer-director Christopher Nolan was born on July 30, 1970 in London, England. Over the course of 15 years of film-making, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the biggest blockbusters ever made. At 7 years old, Nolan began making short movies with his father's Super-8 camera.

While studying English Literature at University College London, he shot 16-millimetre films at U.C.L.'s film society, where he learned the guerrilla techniques he would later use to make his first feature, Following (1998), on a budget of around $6,000. The noir thriller was recognized at a number of international film festivals prior to its theatrical release, and gained Nolan enough credibility that he was able to gather substantial financing for his next film. Nolan's second film was Memento (2000), which he directed from his own screenplay based on a short story by his brother Jonathan. Starring Guy Pearce , the film brought Nolan numerous honors, including Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay. Nolan went on to direct the critically acclaimed psychological thriller, Insomnia (2002), starring Al Pacino , Robin Williams and Hilary Swank . The turning point in Nolan's career occurred when he was awarded the chance to revive the Batman franchise in 2005. In Batman Begins (2005), Nolan brought a level of gravitas back to the iconic hero, and his gritty, modern interpretation was greeted with praise from fans and critics alike.

Before moving on to a Batman sequel, Nolan directed, cowrote and produced the mystery thriller The Prestige (2006), starring Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman as magicians whose obsessive rivalry leads to tragedy and murder. In 2008, Nolan directed, cowrote, and produced The Dark Knight (2008) which went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the world-wide box office. Nolan was nominated for a Directors Guild of America (D.G.A.) Award, Writers Guild of America (W.G.A.) Award and Producers Guild of America (P.G.A.) Award, and the film also received eight Academy Award nominations. In 2010, Nolan captivated audiences with sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), which he directed and produced from his own original screenplay. The thought-provoking drama was a world-wide blockbuster, earning more than $800,000,000 dollars and becoming one of the most discussed and debated films of the year. Among its many honors, Inception received four Academy Awards and eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Nolan was recognized by his peers with D.G.A. and P.G.A.

Award nominations, as well as a W.G.A. Award win for his work on the film. One of the best-reviewed and highest-grossing movies of 2012, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) concluded Nolan's Batman trilogy. Due to his success rebooting the Batman character, Warner Bros. enlisted Nolan to produce their revamped Superman movie Man of Steel (2013), which opened in the Summer of 2013. Nolan currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, producer Emma Thomas , and their children. Nolan and Thomas also have their own production company, Syncopy. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous Born in London in 1970, Christopher Nolan began making films at the age of seven years using his father's Super-8 camera and an assortment of male action figures. He graduated to making films involving real people, and his Super-8 surrealistic short 'Tarantella' was shown on P.B.S.' 'image union' in 1989. Chris studied English Literature at University College London while starting to make 16-millimetre films at the college film society.

His short film 'Larceny' was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival in 1996, and his other 16-millimetre shorts include a 3-minute surrealistic film called 'Doodlebug'. - IMDb Mini Biography By: rjpurves@aol.com After The Dark Knight's success, Warner Bros. signed Nolan to direct Inception. Nolan also wrote and co-produced the film, described as "a contemporary set within the architecture of the mind". Before being released in theaters, critics like Peter Travers and Lou Lumenick wondered if Nolan's faith in moviegoers' intelligence would cost him at the box office. Starring a large ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio, the film was released on 16 July 2010, and was a critical and commercial success.

Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times, awarded the film a perfect score of "A+" and called it "one of the best movies of the [21st] century." Mark Kermode named it the best film of 2010, stating "Inception is proof that people are not stupid, that cinema is not trash, and that it is possible for blockbusters and art to be the same thing." Veteran producer John Davis speculated that its success could inspire studios to make more original content; "I can promise you that heads of studios are already going into production meetings saying we need fresh ideas for summer movies, we want original concepts like Inception that are big and bold enough to carry themselves". The film ended up grossing over $820 million worldwide and was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture; it won Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. Nolan also received BAFTA, Golden Globe, DGA and PGA Award nominations, as well as a WGA Award for his work on the film.

While in post-production on Inception, Nolan gave an interview for These Amazing Shadows (2011), a documentary spotlighting film appreciation and preservation by the National Film Registry.He also appeared in Side by Side (2012), a documentary about the history, process and workflow of both digital and film creation. In 2012, Nolan directed his third and final Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises. Although he was initially hesitant about returning to the series, he agreed to come back after developing a story with his brother and David S. Goyer which he felt would end the series on a high note. The Dark Knight Rises was released on 20 July 2012. In January 2013 it was announced that Nolan would direct, write and produce a science-fiction film entitled Interstellar. The first drafts of the script were written by Jonathan Nolan, and it was originally to be directed by Steven Spielberg.

Based on the scientific theories of renowned theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, the film depicted "a heroic interstellar voyage to the farthest borders of our scientific understanding".[109] Interstellar starred Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Michael Caine and Ellen Burstyn, and was notably Nolan's first collaboration with cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema. Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. co-financed and co-distributed the project, released on 5 November 2014 to positive reviews and strong box office results, grossing over $670 million worldwide. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges Spouse (1) (1997 - present) (4 children) Trade Mark (35) Begins his movies and introduces his main characters with a close up of their hands performing an action. Frequently casts Christian Bale , Michael Caine , Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy . Opening scenes are usually a flashback or a piece of a scene from the middle or ending of the movie. Films conclude with the two central characters discussing the results which have stemmed from the events of the film.

Crosscutting several scenes of parallel action to build to a climax ( The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Interstellar (2014)). His endings have a recurring theme of justified dishonesty. (Examples: Guy Pearce 's "Do I lie to myself to be happy" monologue in Memento (2000), Michael Caine 's closing remark that the audience "wants to be fooled" from The Prestige (2006) and Christian Bale 's rationale of how the citizens of Gotham City "deserve to have their faith rewarded" in the ending of The Dark Knight (2008)). His films usually revolve around characters that are afflicted with some kind of psychological disorder.

(Examples: Guy Pearce 's short-term memory "condition" in Memento (2000), Al Pacino 's titular sleeping disorder in Insomnia (2002), Christian Bale 's phobia of bats in Batman Begins (2005) and Aaron Eckhart 's dual personality in The Dark Knight (2008) and Leonardo DiCaprio not being able to grasp onto reality in Inception (2010)). The storyline in his films usually involves a determined character seeking vengeance over the death of a loved one. (Examples: Guy Pearce in Memento (2000), Christian Bale in Batman Begins (2005), Hugh Jackman in The Prestige (2006), Aaron Eckhart in The Dark Knight (2008), and Marion Cotillard in The Dark Knight Rises (2012)). Often casts actors in roles contrary to their usual screen persona Frequently uses hard cuts when transitioning to the next scenes.

This is most prominent in his films from Batman Begins (2005) onward, especially in The Dark Knight (2008), where, in some instances, the hard cuts he uses will go so far as to nearly cut off character's lines in order to quickly and efficiently get to the next scene. All of his films contain a major referential connection to his prior film (e.g. the Joker performs a deadly magic trick in The Dark Knight (2008); Nolan's previous film, The Prestige (2006), was about magicians performing magic tricks that turn deadly). His protagonists will often resort to tactics of physical or psychological torture to gain information (e.g.

(SPOILERS) in Batman Begins (2005), Batman uses the hallucinagenic fear compound on Jonathan Crane in order to gain information about his "boss"; in The Prestige (2006), Angier buries Borden's assistant alive in order to get Borden to talk; in The Dark Knight (2008), Batman throws Salvatore Maroni off a building, breaking his legs, in order to gain information about the Joker; in the same movie, Harvey Dent puts a gun to one of the Joker's henchman and flips a coin for his life every second he doesn't talk to scare him into talking. Also in this movie, Batman uses physical intimidation for the interrogation of the Joker; in Insomnia (2002), Dormer drives into oncoming traffic in order to scare the victim's best friend into talking; in Inception (2010), Cobb demands that Saito discloses information to him on gunpoint; in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Batman physically threatens Bane to accquire the location of the trigger).

His characters often gain a physical or psychological handicap in the course of the film (SPOILERS: in The Prestige (2006), Angier gets a crippled leg while Borden loses two fingers; in The Dark Knight (2008), Salvatore Maroni gets a crippled leg; in Insomnia (2002), Dormer gets insomnia; in Memento (2000), Leonard gains a memory handicap, the event of which is shown in flashback during the film) His films often have obsessive protagonists with a troubled past, who are obsessed to gain justice by any means in life (e.g. Leonard in Memento (2000), Al Pacino's character in Insomnia (2002), Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins (2005). Also the protagonist of Following (1998) and Hugh Jackman in The Prestige (2006) were obsessive) Lonely troubled protagonists who are unwillingly forced to hide their true identity from the world. Typically ends his films with a character giving a philosophical monologue Frequently in his films, at some crucial moment, the protagonists feel let down or betrayed by their mentors whom they have been following blindly and with respect.

(e.g. The protagonist being cheated by Cobb in Following (1998), Leonard "discovering" that Teddy is the culprit in Memento (2000), Hilary Swank 's character respecting Al Pacino as a great detective in Insomnia (2002) only to find out that he is also flawed, Bruce Wayne and Liam Neeson 's character's confrontation in Batman Begins (2005), Cutter not supporting Angier in The Prestige (2006), Ariadne feeling betrayed by her mentor Cobb when he does not tell her about Mal's domain over his dreams in Inception (2010), Blake feeling let down by Gordon when his lie about Dent's death is exposed in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Murph finding out the truth about Professor Brand's work in Interstellar (2014). His films' protagonists have mostly lost their loved ones and/or failed in love, a circumstance that causes them turn into malevolent and/or apathetic forever. (e.g.

Leonard in Memento (2000) has lost his wife in a brutal murder in the past, Bruce Wayne in Batman Begins (2005) has lost Rachel Dawes' faith in him throughout the film, Borden in The Prestige (2006) does not get his wife's love because of his character's 'act' in the movie and Angier loses his beloved in a mishap during a magic trick, Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight (2008) loses Rachel as well as Bruce Wayne is not able to win her love back) Often casts non-American actors in American roles. (e.g. Guy Pearce , Christian Bale , Hugh Jackman , Heath Ledger , Cillian Murphy , Liam Neeson , Gary Oldman , Tom Wilkinson ) Uses camera revolving around a character.

(The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2005), Memento (2002) and Inception (2010)) Displays the title before the ending credits (Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2006), The Dark Knight Rises (2012)) The original scores of his films usually play over most of the film, or one piece of music will play over many small scenes, as if they are edited in a montage; there are few moments in his films when there is no music playing in the background. Characters who are unreliable narrators (e.g. Borden, through his journal, in The Prestige (2006), the Joker through his conflicting monologues in The Dark Knight (2008), and Leonard through his memory problem and 'conditioning' from Memento (2000), Dom with his mind in Inception (2010) Very frequently his films contain blackmail, attempted blackmail or a reference to blackmail.

Never uses non-diegetic soundtrack music - soundtrack music is always used diegetically (that is, it is always played from a source within the film that the characters themselves can hear, like a radio..."Non, je ne regrette rien" by Edith Piaf was used by the characters as a kick in Inception (2010)) His films almost always end with the character's fate open to interpretation Enormous visual scope and heavy emphasis on location and architecture Villains in his films often threaten to harm the hero's friends or family His antagonists are often motivated by a philosophical belief rather than money Often works with editor Lee Smith, composer Hans Zimmer , cinematographer Wally Pfister , production designer Nathan Crowley and wife-producer Emma Thomas. Frequently uses symmetric image composition, possibly inspired by Stanley Kubrick . Many of his films contain a scene where the dynamic of a conversation changes when one of the characters reveals that he owns the establishment or event the characters are currently attending/talking about (e.g.

a restaurant in The Dark Knight (2008), a charity ball in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), an airline in Inception (2010), or is closely linked with the person who does (a bar in Following (1998)). This strangely specific trademark reaches its furthest extreme in Batman Begins (2005) when, at the end of a scene, Bruce Wayne actually buys the place he is in (a restaurant) to change the dynamic between him and an angry waiter. His films almost always end with a sudden (and very effective) smash cut to black. (Memento (2002), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), and especially Inception (2010) are prime examples.) Protagonists have a desire to return to their children (Cobb in Inception (2010) and Cooper in Interstellar (2014)) Trivia (42) Gained major funding during the 1999 Hong Kong Film Festival by showing his film Following (1998) and then asking the audience to donate money to his next film Memento (2000).

Is red and green colorblind. Received his Bachelor's degree in English Literature from University College London. Is a huge fan of James Bond, and said to David S. Goyer , that his favorite James Bond movie is On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). His top ten favorite movies are: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Black Hole (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Chinatown (1974), The Hitcher (1986), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)), Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and Topkapi (1964), as well as anything by Stanley Kubrick . Does not like computer graphics in movies and purposely avoided them when he made Batman Begins (2005). Following Insomnia (2002), his next project was going to be a Howard Hughes biopic starring Jim Carrey .

Nolan had the screenplay written (calling it "one of the best things I've ever written"), but once it became apparent Martin Scorsese was making his own Hughes biopic, The Aviator (2004), Nolan reluctantly tabled his script and took up directing Batman Begins (2005). Spent his childhood moving back and forth between United Kingdom and the United States. His accent is mostly English, but occasionally varies into an American accent. Nolan is comfortable with and knowledgeable of both cultures. Has both American and British citizenship. Is a huge fan of the rock band Radiohead . Resides in Los Angeles, California with his wife Emma Thomas and their four children. Always has both his American and British passports with him at all times, just in case of emergency. As of 2014, 7 out of 9 films Nolan directed are on the IMDB's top 250: The Dark Knight (2008), Batman Begins (2005), Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Interstellar (2014).

The two films missing are Insomnia (2002) and Following (1998). Was doing camera and sound work on training videos before making his film debut. His film, Interstellar (2014), is the sixth consecutive movie of his to have a role played by Michael Caine . Considers Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott as his primary influences. Adapted Ruth Rendell 's novel, "The Keys to the Street", into a screenplay that he was set to direct for Fox Searchlight after Insomnia (2002). However, he instead went on to direct Batman Begins (2005). "Keys to the Street" remains unproduced. First cousin of Miranda Nolan , whom he gave minor roles in Inception (2010) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012). Miranda's brother Tom had a minor role in Batman Begins (2005). Is the first director to do three live-action film adaptations of the DC Comics character Batman. He and Spider-Man (2002) director Sam Raimi are the only directors to do three live-action comic book adaptations of the same character.

Prefers shooting on film stock over digital, and has been outspoken against the threat by studios to phase out the use of film as a choice over digital. Refuses to use Digital Intermediates for his films, instead opting to use the photochemical timing process. He is one of the few people (also including his brother Jonathan Nolan and David S. Goyer ) to work on films about DC Comics' two most famous characters and two of the most iconic heroes in Comics, "Batman" and "Superman". Honored with a hand-print and foot-print ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California on July 7, 2012. Father of Flora Nolan, Rory Nolan , Oliver Nolan and Magnus Nolan . He initially directed his Batman films so he could get funding and support for his bigger films. The one he had planned for years was Inception (2010). After James Cameron , Christopher Nolan is the second director make two films that have grossed more than $1 billion in the worldwide box office ( The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012)).

However, Nolan is the first director to have released both of the billion dollar grossing films in 2D only (James Cameron's Avatar (2009) and Titanic (1997) have both been released in 3D at some point during their releases). Always refuses to use a second unit in his movies, preferring instead to oversee every shot himself with the DP. Was inspired to create the Dark Knight trilogy after viewing Richard Donner 's Superman films. Has directed one Oscar winning performance: Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008). Despite directing many acclaimed films, he has never been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. His most recent films were filmed under fake titles named for his children: The Dark Knight (2008) was "Rory's First Kiss", Inception (2010) was "Oliver's Arrow", The Dark Knight Rises (2012) was "Magnus Rex", and Interstellar (2014) was "Flora's Letter". Drinks Earl Grey Tea often on set.

Important inspirations for his editing style were the films of Nicolas Roeg and later Terrence Malick , especially his epic The Thin Red Line (1998). He does not create a story outline before beginning the writing of a screenplay, although he does take copious notes regarding events, characters, and ideas. Vast majority of Nolan's movies have an interesting common part of the plot - the main protagonist of each of the movies Nolan has directed experience some sort of mind problem, difficulty that significantly contributes to the storyline. In Memento (2000), Leonard suffers a short-term memory loss that has been caused by the murder of his wife. In Insomnia (2002), detective Will Dormer while on prosecution of the suspect accidentally shoots his partner. As a result of this mistake, detective suffers insomnia. Thoughtout the Dark Knight trilogy (2005-2012), Bruce Wayne experiences a fear of bats, which inspires him to conquer fear and fight this mental suffering. In The Prestige (2006), magician Angier seeks vengeance on his partner, who he thinks to blame for his wife's death and who constantly experiences visions of the moment his wife dies.

In Inception (2010), Cobb suffers the loss of his wife, whose suicide he thinks he provoked. As a result of this, he constantly sees and visualizes his wife, as if he believes that she is still alive. His first film Following (1998) was made for only 6,000 pounds and was shot on weekends as the cast and crew all had full-time jobs. Even though he made the Dark Knight Trilogy dark and serious, he admits to being a huge fan of Tim Burton 's Batman (1989). Due to their successful career, Christopher and Jonathan Nolan has developed a dedicated cult following. Many of whom identify themselves as 'Nolanists' who can be described as those who support the ideology of Nolanism. His inadvertent cult following 'Nolanism' was officially founded in 2014 by Dvir and Orr Ben Asuli. Although it was ultimately inspired by Christopher and his brother: Jonathan Nolan's often "God-like" style of filmmaking. One common word that is associated with the brothers is the religious phrase "Hallelujah", commonly used by "Nolanists".

Personal Quotes (40) [on different acting styles] The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it. ...I studied English Literature. I wasn't a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society, was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well. As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place. A lot of it is being done in commercials and music videos. I've never done them, but I think that those are forms in which cross-cutting and parallel action are absolutely standard and accepted as a mainstream language. Film-makers like myself enjoy the fruits of that experimentation and absorption by the mainstream. I think people's capacity to absorb a fractured mise-en-scene is extraordinary now compared to forty years ago. Yes, to me that's one of the most compelling fears in film noir and the psychological thriller genre - that fear of conspiracy.

It's definitely something that I have a fear of - not being in control of your own life. I think that's something people can relate to, and those genres are most successful when they derive the material from genuine fears that people have. The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started. What I'm trying to do is to create modern equivalents that speak to me of those tropes that have more of the original power. I have always been a huge fan of Ridley Scott and certainly when I was a kid. Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982) just blew me away because they created these extraordinary worlds that were just completely immersive. I was also an enormous Stanley Kubrick fan for similar reasons. [on using CGI in Batman Begins (2005)] I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal, I know I've felt it. The demand we put on ourselves was to be as spectacular as possible, but not depend on computer graphics to do it.

[on casting Batman Begins (2005)] Batman is a marvelously complex character - somebody who has absolute charm and then, just like that, can turn it into ice-cold ruthlessness. There are very few actors who can do that, and Christian is one of them. I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it. Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide. But there's a very limited pool of finance in the UK. To be honest, it's a very clubby kind of place. In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new.

In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing. I never had any luck with interesting people in small projects when I was doing Following (1998). Never had any support whatsoever from the British film industry, other than Working Title, the company that [producer] Emma Thomas was working for at the time. They let me use their photocopier, stuff like that, which is not to be underestimated. I never considered myself a lucky person. I'm the most extraordinary pessimist. I truly am. We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale. Working with a legend like Michael Caine is about as enjoyable and relaxing an experience on set as one could hope for. His vast experience gives him an air of good-humored calm that you could almost mistake for complacency until the camera rolls, and you see his focus and efficiency nail each scene on the first take.

He once told me that he's never asked for a second take -- he's happy to do one if you have an idea for him to try, but he brings a definitive interpretation to every line. His method has the casual air of effortlessness that can only come from decades of dogged hard work, and you sense that he's still as hungry for every last morsel of a part as he was when he first captured everyone's imagination. A fine actor first, and screen icon second, he's a director's dream. At the time I did Following (1998), I was looking at the American ultra-low-budget model that didn't really exist in the UK. A low-budget film in England tended to be about £500,000 to £600,000. In America, there was a tradition of guys like Robert Rodriguez and Kevin Smith making films for thousands, and that's what we'd been doing for short films. So it was really just a case of using that knowledge and expanding it to feature length. I hear of people doing it in the UK now and I think that's a great thing.

[on Memento (2000)] The budget was about £ 3 million, which is low for an independent film - but yes, it was a huge leap of faith. "Memento" was clearly on a bigger scale than Following (1998) but, at the same time, there were very strong stylistic connections. People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick. The procedure is basically to try to get into film festivals. I'm half American, so I was able to come over to America and live here and start battering the American film festivals. There are a lot of great festivals, not just Sundance. So the key is to get it screened at a festival and start interesting people there. I didn't go to film school. I guess my whole experience has been just to make films. What I've talked about on the commentary to the DVD of Following (1998) is the production method and how things came about. I feel like that might be a point of interest that a lot of people might be thinking about with their own films, so I've tried to put in as much of the detail as I can remember.

The more I've thought about it, the more I've realized that everybody's situation is unique, and the one thing I've learned is that instead of copying someone else's model for a low-budget film, you really have to look at what you've got available and see how you can tell the story you want to tell, using the things that you have around you. That's what we did with "Following", and on the DVD I try to explain how it worked for us and what I learned from it, but at the same time suggest that it'll be different for someone else. [on the budget of Following (1998)] We've got a pretty serious claim on being the cheapest film ever made. I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting... I quite like to be in that maze. Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like.

But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the idea that every time I go to the cinema and pay my money and sit down and watch a film go up on-screen, I want to feel that the people who made that film think it's the best movie in the world, that they poured everything into it and they really love it. Whether or not I agree with what they've done, I want that effort there-I want that sincerity. And when you don't feel it, that's the only time I feel like I'm wasting my time at the movies. Every film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image that the audience is seeing. [reacting to the premiere shooting in Aurora, Colorado] Speaking on behalf of the cast and crew of The Dark Knight Rises (2012), I would like to express our profound sorrow at the senseless tragedy that has befallen the entire Aurora community. I would not presume to know anything about the victims of the shooting, but that they were there last night to watch a movie. I believe movies are one of the great American art forms and the shared experience of watching a story unfold on screen is an important and joyful pastime.

The movie theatre is my home, and the idea that someone would violate that innocent and hopeful place in such an unbearably savage way is devastating to me. Nothing any of us can say could ever adequately express our feelings for the innocent victims of this appalling crime, but our thoughts are with them and their families. I sometimes get frustrated with studio executives - and indeed critics - who will watch a film in a very linear way and make notes as they go, because that's not how movies work. You get to the end - the audience gets to the end - and then you take about five minutes to decide "Okay, what was all that?" and your brain really looks at everything in a different way and then you decide. And that's why endings are so important and that's why you really have to get to the end of a movie before you know what it is. Anybody who sees an original-negative print of a film shot in IMAX is looking at the best image quality available to filmmakers today. As long as any new technology is required to measure up to that, I think film has to remain the future.

If you're trying to challenge an audience and make them look at elements in a different way, you've got to give them a familiar context to hang onto... But you have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness. We're definitely well into a phase where our actors are not willing to brand themselves as movie stars, the way actors of the past did. When you look at a guy like Christian (Bale), whether he's wearing a mask or not, this is one of our great actors. But he wants to be different in every film. He doesn't want the audience to go to a 'Christian Bale movie'. He wants them to come see the character he's playing. [regarding his canceled Howard Hughes film] Luckily I managed to find another wealthy, quirky character who's orphaned at a young age. For me, The Dark Knight Rises (2012) is specifically and definitely the end of the Batman story as I wanted to tell it, and the open-ended nature of the film is simply a very important thematic idea that we wanted to get into the movie, which is that Batman is a symbol. He can be anybody, and that was very important to us.

Not every Batman fan will necessarily agree with that interpretation of the philosophy of the character, but for me it all comes back to the scene between Bruce Wayne and Alfred in the private jet in Batman Begins (2005), where the only way that I could find to make a credible characterization of a guy transforming himself into Batman is if it was as a necessary symbol, and he saw himself as a catalyst for change and therefore it was a temporary process, maybe a five-year plan that would be enforced for symbolically encouraging the good of Gotham to take back their city. To me, for that mission to succeed, it has to end, so this is the ending for me, and as I say, the open-ended elements are all to do with the thematic idea that Batman was not important as a man, he's more than that. He's a symbol, and the symbol lives on. We tried with all three [Batman] films, but in the most extreme way with The Dark Knight Rises (2012), what I call this sort of snowballing approach to action and events.

We experimented with this in The Dark Knight (2008), where the action is not based on clean and clear set pieces the way Batman Begins (2005) was, but we pushed it much further in this film. The scope and scale of the action is built from smaller pieces that snowball together so you're cross-cutting, which I love doing, and trying to find a rhythm in conjunction with the music and the sound effects, so you're building and building tension continuously over a long sustained part of the film, and not releasing that until the very last frame. It's a risky strategy because you risk exhausting your audience, but to me it's the most invigorating way of approaching the action film. It's an approach I applied with Inception (2010) as well, to have parallel strands of tension rising and rising and then coming together. In "The Dark Knight Rises," from the moment the music and sound drop and the little boy starts singing "The Star-Spangled Banner", it's kind of like the gloves are coming off. I've been amazed and delighted how people have accepted the extremity of where things go.

I think I'm not so much a fan of science fiction as I am a fan of cinema that creates worlds, that creates an entire alternate universe that you could escape into for a couple of hours. I think anytime you look at science fiction in movies, there are key touchstones; Metropolis (1927), Blade Runner (1982), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Whenever you're talking about getting off the planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is somewhat unavoidable. If I don't need to be directing the shots that go in the movie, why do I need to be there at all? The screen is the same size for every shot. The little shot of, say, a watch on someone's wrist, will occupy the same screen size as the shot of a thousand people running down the street. Everything is equally weighted and needs to be considered with equal care, I really do believe that. I don't understand the criteria for parceling things off. Many action films embrace a second unit taking on all of the action. For me, that's odd because then why did you want to do an action film?

Many of the filmmakers I've admired over the years have used sound in bold and adventurous ways. I don't agree with the idea that you can only achieve clarity through dialogue. Clarity of story, clarity of emotions - I try to achieve that in a very layered way using all the different things at my disposal - picture and sound. There are filmmakers who pride themselves on "one for the studio, one for me", and I just don't see it that way. I have an opportunity that very few filmmakers get, to do something on a huge scale that I can control completely and make as personal as I want, so I feel a big responsibility to make the most of it. Because there are tremendous filmmakers out there who will never get that opportunity but would do something extraordinary with it. I don't look at the scale of the films in terms of money or the physical size of what we're shooting. It's in terms of my life, my time, however much I'm investing in it. It took me a couple of years to make Following (1998) and another year to take it round the festival circuit. It was and remains a huge movie to me.

[on his cinematic inspirations for The Dark Knight (2008)] I always felt Heat (1995) to be a remarkable demonstration of how you can create a vast universe within one city and balance a very large number of characters and their emotional journeys in an effective manner. [on why his films often show multiple dimensions] It might be unusual in movies, but it's very well established in other media. I'm very inspired by the prints of M.C. Escher and the interesting connection-point or blurring of boundaries between art and science, and art and mathematics. I'm thinking of his Penrose steps illustrations that inspired Inception. Also, the writing of Jorge Luis Borges , the great Argentinian writer, wrote all kinds of incredible short stories that dealt with paradox. But I feel like films are uniquely suited towards addressing paradox, recursiveness, and worlds-within-worlds. [2014] [on Kodak's new Super 8 camera] The news that Kodak is enabling the next generation of filmmakers with access to an upgraded and enhanced version of the same analogue technology that first made me fall in love with cinematic storytelling is unbelievably exciting. [2016] Salary (3)

Question: Which film director's credits include Memento, Insomnia, Inception and The Dark Knight Rises?
Answer: Christopher Nolan