Things Christopher Nolan finds "fascinating" (according to his interview with Tom Shone)
-The imagery of blurred heads in the paintings of Francis Bacon
-The absence of heroics in David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia
-The orphaning of Howard Hughes
-Kubrick's use of miniatures in 200I: A Space Odyssey
-The moment in Heat where De Niro's gang slashes the vacuum-sealed bag of money
-The work of Jorge Luis Borges
-Brando's recital of T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" at the end of Apocalypse Now
-Pink Floyd: The Wall
-The work of Industrial Light & Magic
-His father's work in advertising for Ridley Scott The illusion of scale in movies
-Gothic architecture
-Einstein's thought experiments involving separated twins
-The "great game" in Southeast Asia between the British Empire and Russia
-Wilkie Collins's novel The Moonstone
-The way morality is expressed through architecture in Murnaus Sunrise
-The fact that nobody understands how iPads work
-The work of David Lynch
-The way GPS satellites factor in the effects of relativity
-Wikipedia
-A nature documentary he watched unspool backward at age sixteen
-The hydrofoil
Christopher Nolan says he worked hard on the Blu-ray and 4K Release of Oppenheimer
“So you have a Version to buy and own. put it on the shelf so no Evil Streaming service can come steal it from you.”
Frank Capra’s
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
starring James Stewart, Donna Reed,
Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell,
Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Ward
Bond, Frank Faylen and Gloria Grahame
The greatest Christmas film is It’s A Wonderful Life, which is also one of the greatest films of all time. The second greatest Christmas film is A Christmas Story. Nothing else is in the running. And nearly every Christmas movie since 1995 has been trash.