Nolan's 'Dark Knight Rises' dons an Occupy costume [Trailer]

We already knew Christopher Nolan was up to something topical with “The Dark Knight Rises” when he decided to shoot near Occupy Wall Street. Now we have a clearer sense of what that topic is.

As the Batman film's new trailer released online Monday suggests, it’s economic disparity and government response to organized protest, among other subjects.

Over a haunting rendition of a child singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" (lest there be any doubt about his national themes), Nolan offers us a peek at his haves-and-have-nots preoccupation when he has Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle whisper in the ear of Christian Bale’s Bruce Wayne a message from the 99%.
“You think this can last?" she says. "There’s a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. And you and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you’re all going to wonder how you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.”

Director: Christopher Nolan

Chris Nolan has had a wide spectrum of movies, spanning from his distinctive early work to his later big budget Hollywood films. There are a varying number of simple psychological and ethical questions in each movie that have captured the attention of otherwise casual moviegoers. His films usually feature a large ensemble cast and large amounts of consistent score as well.
Nolan was once know for fast edits and starling moments that shocked audiences when they least expected it. The frequency of these and other unique traits dissipated over time in favor of puzzels and twists as Nolan’s work became more mainstream.

Christopher Nolan likely to direct Howard Hughes biopic next

According to Vulture, Christopher Nolan wants to direct a Howard Hughes biopic after he has completed The Dark Knight Rises.

Before he directed Batman Begins, Nolan worked on the project, based on Michael Drosnin's non-fiction book Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness.

Jim Carrey was linked to the Hughes role, but production was suspended when Martin Scorsese decided to make The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Q&A: Christopher Nolan on Dreams, Architecture, and Ambiguity

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Director Christopher Nolan with Leonardo DiCaprio and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the set of Inception.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt on the set of Inception.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb in Inception.
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Director Christopher Nolan on the set of Inception.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb in Inception.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb in Inception.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb in Inception.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur in Inception.
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Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb in Inception.
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(Spoiler alert: Details and plot points about Inception follow.)
Christopher Nolan, director of Memento, and The Dark Knight, tends to let his twisty genre deconstructions speak for themselves. But he agreed to talk to Wired about the decade-long inception of his movie Inception (on DVD December 7). We talked to him about heists, architecture, and the difference between ambiguity and a lack of answers. Hint: One is better (looking at you, Lost).
Wired: Inception has such high ambitions. What did it take to get the script to work?
Christopher Nolan: The problem was that I started with a heist film structure. At the time, that seemed the best way of getting all the exposition into the beginning of the movie—heist is the one genre where exposition is very much part of the entertainment. But I eventually realized that heist films are usually unemotional. They tend to be glamorous and deliberately superficial. I wanted to deal with the world of dreams, and I realized that I really had to offer the audience a more emotional narrative, something that represents the emotional world of somebody’s mind. So both the hero’s story and the heist itself had to be based on emotional concepts. That took years to figure out.
Wired: You mix in other genres as well. There’s a bit of noir, and in the snow scene you play with the conventions of James Bond-style action-movies.
Nolan: I’m a lover of movies, so that’s where my brain went. But I think that’s where a lot of people’s minds would go if they were constructing an arena in which to conduct this heist. I also wanted the dreams in Inception to reflect the infinite potential of the human mind. The Bond movies are these globe-trotting spy thrillers, filmmaking on a massive scale. The key noir reference is the character Mal; it was very important to me that she come across as a classic femme fatale. The character and her relationship to Cobb’s psyche is the literal mani-festation of what the femme fatale always meant in film noir—the neurosis of the protagonist, his fear of how little he knows about the woman he’s fallen in love with, that kind of thing.
Wired: In addition to genre-play, Inception is also a classic heroic epic—a Joseph Campbell The Hero with a Thousand Faces type of story.
Nolan: I’ve never read Joseph Campbell, and I don’t know all that much about story archetypes. But things like The Inferno and the labyrinth and the Minotaur were definitely in my mind.
Wired: There’s a character called Ariadne, named after the woman who helped guide Theseus through the labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur.
Nolan: Yeah, I wanted to have that to help explain the importance of the labyrinth to the audience. I don’t know how many people pick up on that association when they’re watching the film. It was just a little pointer, really. I like the idea of her being Cobb’s guide.
Wired: A common observation about your movie is that the grammar of dreams and the grammar of filmmaking have lots of overlap—Inception seems to be a movie about making movies. Saito is a producer, Cobb’s a director, Ariadne’s a writer, and so on. Was that your intention
Nolan: I didn’t intend to make a film about filmmaking, but it’s clear that I gravitated toward the creative process that I know. The way the team works is very analogous to the way the film itself was made. I can’t say that was intentional, but it’s very clearly there. I think that’s just the result of me trying to be very tactile and sincere in my portrayal of that creative process.
Wired: Have you read the online discussions of the film?
Nolan: I’ve seen some of it, yeah. People seem to be noticing the things they’re meant to notice, the things that are meant to either create ambiguities or push you in one direction or another. But I’ve also read plenty of very off-the-wall interpretations. One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. And so there are interpretations to be imposed on the film that aren’t necessarily what I had in my head.
Wired: One of the rules in Inception is that, in a dream, you never know how you got somewhere. But in filmmaking, by necessity, you cut from one place to another—for example, from Paris to Mombasa. Does it indicate that Cobb is in a dream because you don’t see how he got to Mombasa?
Nolan: Certainly Inception plays with the relationship between films and dreaming in a number of different ways. I tried to highlight certain aspects of dreaming that I find to be true, such as not remembering the beginning of a dream. And that is very much like the way films tell their stories. But I wouldn’t say I specifically used the grammar of the film to tell the audience what is dream and what is reality.

After Batman 3, Christopher Nolan Wants to Make His Shelved Howard Hughes Biopic

 

After shooting The Dark Knight Rises, we’re told Christopher Nolan plans to return to reality — even if it’s one stranger than fiction. Insiders with knowledge of his plans tell Vulture exclusively that Nolan next wants to direct a long-shelved Howard Hughes biopic he’d abandoned when it became clear that Martin Scorsese would beat him to the screen with The Aviator in 2004.

But while Scorsese’s film is understood to have been heavily based on Charles Higham’s biography Howard Hughes: The Secret Life and centered largely on the early years of Hughes' life up to 1947, we hear Nolan’s movie is based on Michael Drosnin’s Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness (first published in 1985), and would focus on the freakier decades of Hughes remarkably secretive and OCD-addled life.

Drosnin is a former Washington Post and Wall Street Journal reporter who’s best known for writing the bestseller The Bible Code, but his Citizen Hughes leans extensively on some astonishing primary sourcing: Over three thousand pages of Hughes’s own handwritten memoranda, which leaked after the billionaire's office was burglarized in 1975.

As such, we’re told Nolan’s Hughes movie will covers many later events and quirks on which Scorsese’s movie punted: We'll meet the Howard Hughes who spent much of 1948 sitting naked in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel with only a pink dinner napkin covering his genitals as he screened movies from his studio, RKO Pictures, and ran up an $11 million tab; the Hughes who — obsessed with food safety — once bought every franchise restaurant chain in his home state of Texas, and who was similarly so concerned about air quality that he installed an aircraft filtration system in his 1954 Chrysler New Yorker, taking up its entire trunk; the Howard Hughes who had his hair cut and nails trimmed only once a year, and who was seemingly as addicted to Baskin Robbins Banana Ripple ice cream as he was to regular codeine injections; the Hughes who at the end of his life considered only Mormons trustworthy enough to be let into his inner circle.

Our spies tell us Nolan wants to shoot his Hughes movie late in 2012, then release it in 2014 — by which time 10 years will have elapsed since Scorsese’s Aviator, a span Nolan seems to think sufficient enough for it not to invite immediate comparison.

No word on where Nolan’s Citizen Hughes will be set up — or if it will even be called that — but we can’t imagine that after two Batman movies and Inception at Warner Bros., it won’t be green-lighted in beautiful downtown Burbank.

Christopher Nolan Tribute (Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Modern Master Award, 2011)

 

One of the highlights of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival was without a doubt the Christopher Nolan Tribute. He was rewarded for his work over the years with the Modern Master Award. And actually no one deserves it more than he does. I felt so lucky that I had the chance to be present at the tribute at the Arlington Theatre, Sunday the 30^th of January.
The whole thing started with a presentation of the 7 films he has been directing and writing so far, we got to see a montage of film clips of them. And after that Mr. Nolan was called up on stage, by the moderator Pete Hammond.
Nolan’s first film that was published was following, in 1998. And this was naturally the first film Pete Hammond and Christopher Nolan were talking about. I haven’t seen it myself but it seems to be a good film, though I think it differs a lot from his other movies, that all are the typical outstanding work of Christopher Nolan.
The evening continued with clips from the rest of his films and then Q&A’s about them all. Because Nolan has got this far and become this big after only 7 films they were able to thoroughly talk about every film, the making of them and how he came up with ideas for them.
After Following from 1998, came Memento in 2000, a film I was really impressed with at the time I saw it, unknowing that Christopher Nolan was the director of it. He wrote the story together with his brother who actually was the one who came up with the idea.

Christopher Nolan Interview

Two years ago Christopher Nolan was in Hollywood trying to get Warner Brothers to hire him as a screenwriter on a remake of a gloomy and unusual 1997 cop vs. killer psychological thriller from Norway called "Insomnia."
Warner's owned the rights to the film about a complex murder case in a town north of the Arctic Circle, where the sun doesn't set in the summer, and much to Nolan's disappointment they'd just hired a writer named Hillary Seitz to pen an American version of the film.
So Nolan turned his focus to a low-budget noir thriller he'd been writing (from a short story by his brother), a reverse-chronological allegory of revenge and amnesia called "Memento" -- which became 2001's must-see sleeper hit and landed Nolan a job he'd never dreamed of before. Warner's hired him to direct "Insomnia" from Seitz's script, which, he says, bore a comforting resemblance to his own ideas for the remake.

Christopher Nolan’s anti-Eskimo agenda!

Christopher Nolan. Here is a director that seems like a talented guy who has it going on. But few people realize that he is a bully separatist! I am here to spread the truth about his hatred of Eskimos!
Let’s take a look at his full filmography so I can explain to you in detail how he has forcefully excluded Eskimos from his movies.

• Memento: There are no Eskimos in the entire movie! In fact, I didn’t see any nationality other than white! This is not tolerable!
• Insomnia: There are no Eskimos in this movie and it takes place in Alaska! He is obviously excluding our brother Eskimos when he won’t even put them in an Alaskan movie.

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When telling the story of Christopher Nolan; what better place the start than the future?

In the summer of 2014, excited moviegoers exit their local cinema, hands greasy from popcorn, chatting about the film they have just been privileged to. For any other film, a good portion of these patrons would rather wait till a pirated version shows up on the internet or becomes available at the nearby Redbox. It’s not a special effects laden thriller, or a romantic comedy promising mass appeal that awakens the sleeping giant, but instead a quirky pet project biopic detailing the compulsions of billionaire Howard Hughes. More so, it’s the film’s director, Christopher Nolan putting bodies in the seats. Nolan has long been a household name, but his fame hit legendary status with his involvement in 2013’s Man of Steel, an edgy, relevant reworking of the Superman franchise that proves once and for all Nolan’s artistic vision and devotion to intelligent, creative film making knows no topic too played out, or too obscure.

Christopher Nolan with actor Heath Ledger

Flashback to the here and now. At 41 years old, Nolan certainly has the cinematic world captivated. 2012 promises the release of The Dark Night Rises, the final chapter Bruce Wayne’s trilogy which put Nolan on the map. Although Batman Begins (2005) can be considered a commercial and critical success, it was 2008’s The Dark Night which transformed the series into something more than a comic book remake. The Dark Night utilizes all the tools Nolan has now become famous for; it is dark, visually intriguing and intellectually involved.

Then, in 2010, Nolan broke new ground with Inception. Many regard Inception as Nolan’s masterpiece, and considering he worked on the script for ten years, putting it off to gain more experience with big budget films such as the Batman trilogy, Nolan might agree. Inception is as deep conceptually as it is aesthetically stunning; the culmination of a focused and storied career.

Of course, emotive tales questioning reality and one’s own perceptions are one of Nolan’s calling cards. While attending the University College in London, a school he chose specifically for its’ film making facilities, Nolan made a critically acclaimed short film; “Tarantella.” A scant three minutes, the film follows a young man as he attempts to squash a bug terrorizing his apartment. Only seconds after succeeding in insecticide, the man realized the bug was a miniature version of himself, followed by the protagonists untimely squashing on behalf of some unseen giant.

Nolan’s first feature length project, Following builds on similar themes of perception and deceit, although in more concert terms. The film centers on a young writer as he stalks potential novel material. This leads him into a world of burglary and deceit, eventually ending in the arrest of the protagonist, known only as “The Young Man.”

His first widely released film, 2000’s Momento, uses amnesia as the narrative framework: the protagonist loses the ability to create new memories, using notes and reminders to uncover the true nature of his wife’s murder. The film garnered a sizable cult following in addition to nominations for a Golden Globe and an Oscar in the category of Best Screenplay His follow up, Insomnia (2002), starred Al Pacino, a corrupt police officer dealing with the mind altering effects of sleep deprivation. The Prestige  (2006) follows two illusionists engaged in an arms race of prestidigitation.

By the time the first Gotham City caper appeared in 2005, Nolan’s films already displayed his signature mix of flash and

Christopher Nolan and Actor leonardo dicaprio in Inception

psychological complexity. His films can stand toe to toe with the big budget action flicks in terms of sheer entertainment value and but deliver a truly mind warping experience. While explaining the draw of Inception to the Los Angeles Times, Nolan says: “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.” Inception literally creates these mazes, but Nolan mastered the art of keeping his viewers heads below the waterline long before.

Nolan has yet to disappoint, largely because he knows what works. He utilizes the same tools to surprisingly varied results, be they thematic or personnel. Momento expands on a short story by brother Jonathan Nolan, and the two have since collaborated on The Prestige and the two thirds of the Batman trilogy. Keeping it in the family, every Nolan project since The Prestige has been produced by Syncopy Films, the production company Nolan co-founded with his wife, Emma Thomas. Wally Pfister acts as Nolan’s trusted cinematographer while Lee Smith edits every film since Batman Begins. Nolan has only worked with two composers: David Julyan and Hans Zimmer. Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe and Cillian Murphy appear on camera in several Nolan films, among other repeat actors.

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Not surprisingly, Nolan and his usual suspects already face daunting expectations for the next two projects; The Man of Steel and the big screen adaptation of Michael Drosnin’s biography Citizen Hughes: The Power, the Money and the Madness (1985). Nolan tells the Los Angeles Times that he and another frequent collaborator, David S. Goyer “feel we can do it right… We know the genre and how to get it done right.” The extent of the prolific director’s involvement with yet another comic book rehabilitation is uncertain; as of now Nolan has no plans to direct Man of Steel, and will most likely act as mentor.

While Man of Steel clearly treads familiar ground, a biopic centering around billionaire Howard Hughes hardly seems to fit Nolan’s dark and emotionally damaged motif. But Nolan plans to focus  on the hidden side of Hughes’ personality, those mentally unstable moments which saw Hughes obsessively buying every franchise restaurant in the state of Texas, or racking up an $11 million tab at the Beverly Hills Hotel over the course of 1948, or trimming his hair and nails once a year, among countless other eccentricities.

Indeed, the film, another pet project of Nolan, allows him to explore his favorite subjects: psychological uncertainty and endless possibility for visual excess. Nolan has a knack for showing us the end and making sense of the rest later, so although he must first placate his ever fickle audience with the upcoming Batman finale, success in the summer of 2014 doesn’t seem too distant.

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Christopher Nolan Biography

Christopher Nolan was born in London on July, 30th in 1970 as a child of a British father and an American mother. He began making war movies with his older brother Matt using his father's super 8mm camera and an assortment of male action figures. At the age of seven Star Wars came out and influenced him to do short science fiction films in the verge of George Lucas space saga.

Nolan was living in Chicago at that time and also made films together with Adrien and Roko Belic

While an undergraduate at University College in London his super 8mm surreal short "Tarantella" was shown in the US on PBS' "Image Union" in 1989. Nolan then studied English Literature at University College London. Meanwhile he continued making film, now at the college film society and in 16mm.

By the mid-90s, he had hooked up with Jeremy Theobald who appeared in the short movie"Larceny" (which was shown at the Cambridge Film Festival in 1996) and the three-minute surreal film "Doodlebug".

It was Theobald who co-produced and stared as the lead in Christopher Nolan's first full feature called Following. Following, a no-budget black-and-white movie produced in London over a one year period of time and finished in 1998 received multiple awards including the Rotterdam International Film Festival's Tiger Award and the Slamdance Black & White Award. This allowed Nolan to direct the highly acclaimed film Memento in 2000, for which he also wrote the screenplay.

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Christopher Nolan: ‘Dark Knight Rises,’ Not in 3D

Christopher Nolan announced the latest Batman movie will be called 'The Dark Knight Rises.' (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images)

Christopher Nolan, award-winning and commercially successful director of the upcoming Batman movie says, The Dark Knight Rises will not be in 3D, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“We want the look and feel of the film to be faithful to what has come before in the first two films,” Nolan told the Times. “There was a large canvas and operatic sweep to The Dark Knight and we want to make a film that will carry on with that look and feel.”

Nolan added that he wants to “complete a story” that started with Batman Begins and then The Dark Knight. As before, IMAX cameras and high-definition footage will be used.

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My own private bookcase, which lives on a different floor from the public bookcase with all the new york school poets and beckett and stuff. baby-killing chemicals now there an idea to make a woman blood run cold but have no fear, women. Broker josh fields at spire group has the listing. in addition, the production included a very high tempo, and all three smooth-flowing rappers did not sync well with the high-level beat. arkansas mike huckabee still claims the most hearts of usual voters, while the tea party favorites Christopher Nolan here are huckabee and new york businessman donald trump.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt might be The Riddle in the next Batman Movie

 

Joseph Gordon Levitt, the actor which was nominated this year at the Golden Globe for the role in (500) Days Of Summer, might play The Riddler, in the next Batman movie, directed by Christopher Nolan.
It looks like the actor is already in the shortlist that contains the name of the actors that will play The Riddler character.
Joseph Gordon Levitt worked with director Christopher Nolan on the Inception movie, who’s premiere will take place this summer.
Batman 3 is scheduled to be released in movie theaters in the United States on July 20, 2012.

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Producer Emma Thomas on ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, Bane, and Catwoman

 

The Dark Knight Rises producer Emma Thomas talked with Total Film recently about Christopher Nolan’s final Batman movie. Thomas commented on Tom Hardy as Bane, and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

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Christopher Nolan has a peerlessly consistent track record.
He continued his streak of crafting blockbusters of the highest calibre with this summer’s Inception. Whipping up a frenzy over a film that’s plot was kept tightly under wraps, Nolan proved that the audience had total faith in him to work his magic. Pairing bombastic action sequences with brain-frying smarts, Inception’s cerebral thrills were very welcome in the silly season.

Nolan’s not one to rush himself, and he’s taking his time with Batman: Part 3. Due for release in July 2012, expect any details regarding the film to be shrouded in secrecy. But don’t worry, we trust him to deliver.

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Inception director Christopher Nolan named Modern Master

 

Inception and Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan was named a Modern Master at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in California on Sunday.
Actor and Inception star Leonardo DiCaprio presented him with the award, the highest honour bestowed by the film festival, whose previous recipients include Clint Eastwood and James Cameron.
Mr Nolan, who is directing the third Batman feature Dark Knight Rises and producing new Superman film Man of Steel, said he had always tried to combine "mainstream and experimental" approaches.

Oscar nominee and Oscar snubbed 'Inception' director Christopher Nolan: Good day or bad day?

 

Image Credit: http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/100803/chris-nolan_320.jpgAll things considered, Christopher Nolan had a fantastic day today. His film Inception received eight Oscar nominations, and the helmer himself was nominated for two awards. Nolan is one of two producers on the film — his wife, Emma Thomas, is the other — and if Inception should win Best Picture, they’d be taking the stage together. Nolan also wrote the script for Inception, and his work was nominated in the Best Original Screenplay category. “And well deserved,” composer Hans Zimmer, who picked up his ninth Oscar nomination today for his Inception score, tells EW. (He’s won only once, for The Lion King.) “I’ve been telling people forever this is one of the most beautiful scripts I have ever read.”
Of course, there’s only one way in which Christopher Nolan’s day could have been even better, and that’s if he had been nominated for Best Director, as well. A lot of people were expecting that he would. His film was widely hailed as one of the best of the year. Most Oscar prognosticators had him on their prediction lists. The Directors Guild of America — a much larger body than the Academy’s director branch — had given him a nomination. The guy seemed to be a lock for an Oscar nod. But he didn’t get it. And because he didn’t, the culture’s Oscar storytellers have framed Nolan’s otherwise very good day as a disappointment. Behold Christopher Nolan, Oscar snub of the year.

‘The Dark Knight Rises’ miniatures revealed, but why does Catwoman have a gun?

Jakks Pacific revealed their line of The Dark Knight Rises miniatures this week at the NYC Toy Fair. The miniatures will be available this summer, and Jakks has plans for larger figures too.
However, the main purpose of this article was to focus on Catwoman. We’ve yet to see any photos of Catwoman with her iconic whip, but it looks like she will have a weapon after all… a gun. It’s unclear if this is a deadly pistol, or just some type of stun gun, but it looks like Catwoman will be packing heat in The Dark Knight Rises. Check out one more photo of the gun-toting Catwoman miniature after the break, and leave your thoughts about Catwoman’s weapon in the comments below.

 

 

Christian Bale: I’m Done Playing Batman

(GettyImages.com)There’s bad news for fans of Christian Bale‘s take on Batman.

The actor’s third appearance as the comic book hero, in 2012′s The Dark Knight Rises, will almost certainly be his last.

Bale revealed his intentions to hang up the cape in comments this week to a newspaper in the

Christopher Nolan: From Bruce Wayne To Howard Hughes?

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Christopher Nolan is planning on going from one billionaire (Bruce Wayne) to another (Howard Hughes).
Nolan is already looking forward to life after Batman (and who can blame him? It must be a drag making these big awesome comic book movies that make you filthy rich). The final installment in his trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises," will keep him busy at least through its release in July 2012... but Nolan is already thinking beyond that.
So where will the "Memento" mastermind go once Bruce Wayne has hung up his cape and cowl? According to Vulture, he'll be venturing into the mind of another eccentric and very rich man: Howard Hughes.

RANKING CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S FILMS

 

 

So, my homeys over at Movie Mobsters posted a very interesting question on Facebook last week. Here it is:

Is Inception the best movie of the year and Christopher Nolan’s best film?

My answer to this was “yes” and “no”. Inception is by far the best film I’ve seen this year. Outside of animated films, it’s not even a close race. However, is it Nolan’s best work? I don’t think so. So, I’ve set out to do the near impossible and rank Christopher Nolan’s short but impressive filmography. As you know, Christopher Nolan was ranked #1 on my list of DIRECTORS THAT GET MY DOLLARS. The only filmmakers that come close in quality in recent years, in my opinion, again, are the fellas over there at Pixar. I love a challenging list so let’s do it. Here they are (in order):

8. DOODLEBUG.

This film comes in at #8 for 2 reasons. 1) It’s a short film. 2) I haven’t seen it.

7. FOLLOWING.

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Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan - One of the finest director in Hollywood... Ace of trump...

A British-American film director, screenwriter and producer.

As of October 2011^[update], Nolan's films have earned a total over nearly USD$ 1.2 billion at the box office according to boxofficemojo.com


Just look at his track record.. what a successful graph...

1998 Following
2000 Memento
2002 Insomnia
2005 Batman Begins
2006 The Prestige
2008 The Dark Knight
2010 Inception

He knows the curious nerve of viewer so where to hit hammer.
What are the themes which excite audience most? People do not know much about sleep, dreams, magic, memory thats why they want to be lost in them.
Nolan's movies give perfect perspective what viewers want to see but they don't know what they want. He has got 21 academy award nominations for his movies and won 6 of them.

He selects topic very carefully for his movies. This is the "check-mate" step for viewer. Viewer is not able to understand this trick and it's mind becomes helpless in front of fascination.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Closes Deal For The Dark Knight Rises

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Following more than six weeks of negotiations, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has signed on for an undisclosed role in The Dark Knight Rises, reuniting the actor with Inception director Christopher Nolan and co-stars Tom Hardy and Michael Caine.

In addition, Variety reports, indie actress Juno Temple (Cracks, Kaboom) is being considered “for a supporting role as a street-smart Gotham girl.”

Gordon-Levitt, who starred in the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun before moving on to films like Mysterious Skin, Brick and (500) Days of Summer, has long been rumored for roles in The Dark Knight Rises as varied as The Riddler, Black Mask, Deadshot and Alberto Falcone.

Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' to Hit Theaters Again With New Footage

 

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Christopher Nolan

The thriller will screen at select theaters for one night only, featuring a recorded Q&A with the writer-director.

In honor of the 10th anniversary of its original release, Christopher Nolan's psychological thriller Memento is hitting theaters again -- for one night only.
The nonlinear film, written and directed by Nolan and starring Guy Pearce, will screen Feb. 17 at 11 select digital cinemas across the U.S. and Canada via Cinedigm Digital Cinema.

RANKING CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S FILMS

So, my homeys over at Movie Mobsters posted a very interesting question on Facebook last week. Here it is:

Is Inception the best movie of the year and Christopher Nolan’s best film?

My answer to this was “yes” and “no”. Inception is by far the best film I’ve seen this year. Outside of animated films, it’s not even a close race. However, is it Nolan’s best work? I don’t think so. So, I’ve set out to do the near impossible and rank Christopher Nolan’s short but impressive filmography. As you know, Christopher Nolan was ranked #1 on my list of DIRECTORS THAT GET MY DOLLARS. The only filmmakers that come close in quality in recent years, in my opinion, again, are the fellas over there at Pixar. I love a challenging list so let’s do it. Here they are (in order):