[Film] Which is Christopher Nolan's greatest film ?

[Uncle Spielberg]

Which is Christopher Nolan's greatest film ?

What a cv from one of the greatest ever directors of all time. For me 1. Spielberg 2. Nolan 3. Hitchcock

 

[Billy the Fish]

Difficult one to call. I love Memento, Inception and Batman Begins.

If you held a gun to my head I'd say Dark Knight

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Interstellar for me

 

[Sorrel]

Because I like almost all his films we rented Following and that, too, is a really good (somewhat dark) film made with very little budget. But the class is evident there.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Because I like almost all his films we rented Following and that, too, is a really good (somewhat dark) film made with very little budget. But the class is evident there.

A bit like Spielberg's, Duel, when you could see there was something very special there

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Interstellar is probably his best.

Inception is his blockbuster, and one of the most overrated films of all time.

My personal favourite is The Prestige - brilliant thought provoking film.

I agree bar Inception which is a masterpiece imo

 

[studio150]

The Prestige, but only on the basis that it's the only film of his that I like.

 

[Mellotron]

Difficult one to call. I love Memento, Inception and Batman Begins.

If you held a gun to my head I'd say Dark Knight

This whole answer. Every word of it.

 

[Billy the Fish]

I need to watch Interstellar again. I've only seen it once and remember enjoying it but never going back for a second look.
Pretty sure the only reason is because I was with the current missus and she won't often re-watch films, meaning I don't re-watch many films anymore.

It's funny how your personal circumstance affects how you perceive art.

 

[KeegansHairPiece]

Tenet has to put Nolan up there with the great directors of all time and one of the best if not the best of current film makers.

He seems to be able to combine the ethereal qualities and strangeness of say a Terrence Malick film, with the atmosphere and suspense of a Denis Villeneuve.

I've watched Interstellar and Inception probably as many times as I watched A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back as a kid.

He achieved something akin to genius with Interstellar and Inception being made into films that really help together which such profound concepts, but Tenet takes that to a new level. To screw with your brain to that degree could have left this film in a congealed grandiose mess, but instead without even beginning to understand it, the pace, characters, narratives, produce a spellbinding film that kind of defies how far you can take a cinematic concept and make it work.

His exploration of time has to be one of the great achievements in cinematic history. Oh, I'm a bit of a fan by the way...

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Was tenet Chris Nolan?

 

[KeegansHairPiece]

Was tenet Chris Nolan?

It certainly was.

 

[Acker79]

I completely missed this poll, so didn't get to vote, or complain that you didn't include doodlebug (you didn't specify feature length).

https://youtu.be/gfBwOdsHaWI


The Prestige would have got my vote.

 

[The Clamp]

Memento and The Prestige.
Tenet was over-complex nonsense.

 

[The Clamp]

Tenet has to put Nolan up there with the great directors of all time and one of the best if not the best of current film makers.

He seems to be able to combine the ethereal qualities and strangeness of say a Terrence Malick film, with the atmosphere and suspense of a Denis Villeneuve.

I've watched Interstellar and Inception probably as many times as I watched A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back as a kid.

He achieved something akin to genius with Interstellar and Inception being made into films that really help together which such profound concepts, but Tenet takes that to a new level. To screw with your brain to that degree could have left this film in a congealed grandiose mess, but instead without even beginning to understand it, the pace, characters, narratives, produce a spellbinding film that kind of defies how far you can take a cinematic concept and make it work.

His exploration of time has to be one of the great achievements in cinematic history. Oh, I'm a bit of a fan by the way...

I do like Nolan but found Tenet to be the “congealed grandiose mess” you thought it avoided, think he out-Nolan’d himself.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

It certainly was.

Yes thanks,I thought it was but I couldn't see it on the poll so I had a moment of confusion.
Tenet is fantastic and should be on the poll in my opinion.
It will be interesting to see how tenet does against inception and interstellar in such a poll as this.

 

[The Clamp]

Yes thanks,I thought it was but I couldn't see it on the poll so I had a moment of confusion.
Tenet is fantastic and should be on the poll in my opinion.
It will be interesting to see how tenet does against inception and interstellar in such a poll as this.

Tenet wasn’t released when this thread was posted.

 

[Pint of Ale and a Burger]

Tenet wasn’t released when this thread was posted.

Are you trying to perform some sort of temporal pincer movement on me?

 

[Stat Brother]

Anyone could be mistaken for thinking the sole purpose of NSC is to bait me into posting links to The Rewatchables:-


An unusually rushed look at Momento landed in my podcast feed last night:-

https://www.theringer.com/2021/6/1/22462228/memento-with-bill-simmons-and-chris-ryan



& to save time, next week they're celebrating the 40th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

[KeegansHairPiece]

Memento and The Prestige.
Tenet was over-complex nonsense.

Even as someone who loved Tenet - there is no way of arguing against that statement. It is his most polarising film I think, in the Guardian as an example Peter Bradshaw gave it 5 stars, Catherine Shoard 2 stars. One person's mess another person's genius.

I loved the nonsense. With Memento he tore up the process of stitching a film together that whether front to back or back to front, a story is a story to be unfolded before the audience. I left Tenet the same as the first viewing of Memento - slightly stunned, how did he do that? Couldn't disagree with you above though, because despite loving it, it is nonsense, and there doesn't have to be anything wrong with that.