Christopher Nolan

What creative insights I learned from Christopher Nolan by reading: The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan, by Tom Shone.

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Art mentioned:

• Inception — Film


• Christopher Nolan, Founders Podcast — Podcast


• Memento — Film


• #6 - Coco Chanel — ICONS Podcast Episode


• 2001: A Space Odyssey — Film


• Blade Runner — Film


• Alien — Film


• Star Wars — Film


• Day in the Life of a Knife Maker — YouTube


• Interstellar — Film


• First Man — Film


• The Place Beyond The Pines — Film


• Drive — Film


• Blade Runner 2049 — Film


• The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy — Book


• Batman Begins — Film


• The Dark Knight — Film


• The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes The World — Book


• Las Meninas, Piccaso — Paintings


• Why So Serious? (The Joker Theme), Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard — Music


• #5 - Charlie Chaplin — ICONS Podcast Episode


• Samson and Delilah, Rubens — Painting


• Following — Film


• Pulp Fiction — Film


• Reservoir Dogs — Film


• Citizen Kane — Film


• Tenet — Film


• The Italian Job — Film


• Ocean’s Eleven — Film


• A Fistful of Dollars — Film


• Oppenheimer — Film


• American Prometheus — Book


• Clear Thinking, Shane Parrish — Book


• Searching for Bobby Fischer — Film


• Hard Eight — Film


• Bottle Rocket — Film


• The Prestige — Film


• Casino Royale — Film


• How To Do Great Work, Paul Graham — Essay


• Westworld, HBO — TV Show

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