Christopher Nolan
[photo by: charlieanders2 title: Dark Knight Rises. licence CC]
Christopher Edward Nolan was born on July 30, 1970 and is an English American film director, screen writer and producer. He is also one of the highest-grossing directors in history and among the successful and acclaimed filmmakers of the 21st century. He gained considerable attention for his second film memento for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He has also won many different Awards for Best Film Director, Best Film, Movie of the Year, Best Motion Picture Screenplay, etc.
I really like the style that Christopher Nolan uses in his films. He uses urban settings for his movie and nicely dressed men; he also uses muted color and dialogue scenes framed in wide-close-up with a shallow depth of field, because his films are heavily influenced on film noir. Nolan favors deep, evocative shadows, documentary style lighting, natural setting and real filming locations over studio work. He has continuously experimented with met fictive elements, temporal shifts, elliptical cutting, solipsistic perspective, nonlinear storytelling, labyrinthine plots and the merging of style and form. Nolan uses narrative and stylistic technique to stimulate the viewer to ask themselves why his films are put together in such ways and why the films provoke particular responses.
[photo by: the conmunity title: Inception panel – Christopher Nolan. licence CC]
He directed one of my favorite movies which was Interstellar a 2014 British American epic science fiction film directed, co-written and co-produced by Christopher Nolan. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is struggling to survive, it follows a group of astronauts who travel through a worm-hole in search of a new home for humanity. The movie was influenced by the “key touchstones” of science fiction cinema: Metropolis, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Blade Runner. Nolan compared Interstellar to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre a film about human nature. He also sought to emulate films like Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws. The setting of the farm in the Midwest was inspired by Clark Kent‘s upbringing in Man of Steel.
