THE NOLAN VARIATIONS

A rare intimate portrait of Hollywood s reigning blockbuster auteur whose deeply personal billion dollar movies have established him as the most successful director to come out of the British Isles since Alfred Hitchcock Updated with a chapter on Oppenheimer A masterclass brilliant Immersive detailed meticulous privileged inside dope Craig Raine More than just the tinkerings of a glass watchmaker Christopher Nolan s films have an unerring grasp of the way time makes us feel Time steals people away in his films and he takes careful note of the theft Time is Nolan s great antagonist his lifelong nemesis He seems almost to take it personally Written with the full cooperation of Nolan himself who granted Tom Shone access to never before seen photographs storyboards and sketches the book is a deep dive into the director s films influences methods and obsessions Here for the first time is Nolan on his dislocated transatlantic childhood how he dreamed up the plot of Inception lying awake one night in his dorm at school his colour blindness and its effect on Memento his obsession with puzzles and optical illusions and much much more Written by one of our most penetrating critics The Nolan Variations is a landmark study of one of the tw