{"id":11514,"date":"2011-02-09T17:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T01:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=11514"},"modified":"2011-02-09T18:09:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T02:09:34","slug":"christopher-nolan-tribute-santa-barbara-international-film-festival-master-award-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=11514","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan Tribute (Santa Barbara International Film Festival Master Award, 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Sanni Frostenson<\/a> at Santa Barbara 2011.<\/p>\n

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I went to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Master’s Awards, and found that the well known Film Critic, Peter Hammond did an excellent job in interviewing\u00a0Christopher\u00a0Nolan<\/a>. It was entertaining\u2014more so than other tributes I have seen, and Hammond’s laughter gives life to the interview when it’s going slow. Making the audience laugh at himself, purposely or not, helps a lot.<\/p>\n

Honestly, before I went to The Arlington\u00a0Theater to watch this tribute\u00a0\u00a0I didn’t know that Nolan was the writer and\/or producer to many of the movies I really like. I\u00a0definitely\u00a0became more impressed by this British born, all-around intellectual, man than I had expected. \u00a0My impression of him is that he is a\u00a0calm person who’s not too happy about being in the limelight so much as when he is situated behind the camera.<\/p>\n

In fact he has only made seven features in eleven years, which\u00a0apparently is quite few, in comparison with many other filmmakers. \u00a0The features are: Following (in black and white), Memento, Insomnia, The two most recent Batman films (Batman Begins and The Dark Knight), as well as The Prestige, and the highly celebrated Inception (starring Leonardo DiCaprio), which is the movie he was at SBIFF to receive an award for.<\/p>\n

The second movie of the above list, Memento, follows (in reverse) a guy who loses his short term memory.\u00a0It is one of my favorite movies, in great part due to the incredibly detailed and thought-through plot. It takes a genius to make such a story, and in his own sense, perhaps Nolan should be seen more as a excellent writer than an excellent producer. He told us in the audience about how he read his brothers short story during a road trip and saw its\u00a0potentials. It’s what he later developed into Memento\u2014which they had a hard time promoting at first. That period was, according to Nolan himself, probably more\u00a0nerve-racking for the sponsors. But he was nevertheless very happy when the crowd loved it during the Cannes\u00a0Film\u00a0Festival.<\/p>\n

An interesting thing about Christopher Nolan is that he started to do films starring his Lego figures when he was only seven\u00a0years of age, with his Super 8mm camera. It really proves that a path into the film industry can start out very basically, out of almost nothing. He and his brother used to make \u00a0these films all the time, and\u00a0already\u00a0then he put a lot of effort into the\u00a0film making process. Inception for example, took Nolan seven to nine years to develop.<\/p>\n

These days\u00a0he still likes to have his family members working on his projects, and he\u00a0frequently\u00a0co-operates with his wife Emma (Thomas) Nolan on movies, who also is a producer.<\/p>\n

During the tribute he and Hammond talked a little bit about the feeling of working with different actors like\u00a0Christian\u00a0Bale, Michael Caine, Guy Pearce, the amazing deceased Heath Ledger, and Leonardo DiCaprio among others. The first two often star in Nolan’s films, and \u00a0DiCaprio was a special guest on the the tribute. I was not very impressed over the actor’s speech though, read directly\u00a0from a note; rather a little\u00a0disappointed. I simply would have expected more from such a\u00a0talented\u00a0actor.<\/p>\n

Christopher\u00a0Nolan is a man whose work should be highly\u00a0appreciated, and deserves all the respect it already gets.\u00a0\u00a0Typical for his films are fast cuts, and that they usually starts showing parts of the end. Some look at his films as confusing and lacking emotions, but I consider most of them\u00a0excellent\u00a0intellectual pieces of artwork. If you haven’t seen some of these films you should give it a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Sanni Frostenson at Santa Barbara 2011. I went to the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Master’s Awards, and found that the well known Film Critic, Peter Hammond did an excellent job in interviewing\u00a0Christopher\u00a0Nolan. It was entertaining\u2014more so than other tributes I have seen, and Hammond’s laughter gives life to the interview when it’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2011","category-tributes-and-qas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}