A conversation with director Christopher Nolan
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🗓️ 16 February 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Christopher Nolan has become a franchise unto himself; one of the few directors who can walk into a studio with an original idea and walk out with the millions needed to make it. His latest film, Oppenheimer, has grossed over a billion dollars and been nominated for 13 Oscars. Today he takes us inside the making of the film.
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Guest: Christopher Nolan.
Host: Tom Shone.
Clips: Universal Pictures/Oppenheimer, Warner Bros. Pictures/Interstellar, Golden Globes.
Closing music by Jason Mayo.
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| 1:09.0 | I'm going to be handing the reins over to my colleague Tom Schone, |
| 1:12.0 | the film critic for the Sunday Times who's managed to do an exclusive |
| 1:16.5 | interview for this podcast with the legendary director Christopher Nolan. On a mild day in February of 2000, I was sitting at a diner in Los Angeles, just a few streets over from Sunset Boulevard. There was a new film that |
| 1:35.8 | was just starting to get some buzz in Hollywood, and I was there to meet the young man behind |
| 1:40.2 | it. This man was new to Hollywood. This will be his first American feature and with |
| 1:46.6 | it he was trying out a bold new idea. He was going to make a film told backwards. |
| 1:54.0 | Who would make a film with such a feendishly difficult premise? |
| 2:02.0 | The man who took a seat opposite me was a polite 30-year-old |
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