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.
-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 th
