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Memento (2000)
Following (1998)
“ I studied English Literature. I wasn't a very good student, but one thing I did get from it, while I was making films at the same time with the college film society [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was that I started thinking about the narrative freedoms that authors had enjoyed for centuries and it seemed to me that filmmakers should enjoy those freedoms as well.” (Quote taken from Wikiquote, accessed 19/08/0 Cool

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Some of Nolan's early shorts, such as Doodlebug [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], are available to view on the Internet, for those who wish to seek them out. His film-making career proper started with the feature Following.
Where Film and Literature Meet
This film is about a writer with a strange fascination for following people in order to pick up ideas. He gets more than he bargained for when a burglar he's been following invites him into the criminal world. Following introduces sequences that are presented out of chronological order, leaving the viewer to slowly piece the story together - a technique that has become synonymous with Nolan, and was used to even greater effect in his next film.
Christopher Nolan Filmography
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Dark Knight
Nolan's obvious love of literature is an integral aspect to his style as a film-maker. Here he elaborates on what has become a noticeable characteristic of his films:
Los Angeles based, British born Christopher Nolan was brought up between London and Chicago. He began making movies by pointing a super 8 camera at his toys, and graduated to fully formed short films at University College, London [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where he studied English Literature.
Memento is a polished and highly individual film about a man with short term memory loss, searching for revenge against the person he thinks killed his wife. As his memories are jumbled he keeps copious amounts of notes to help him retain important information,
Christopher Nolan has built up a group of talented and reliable actors and technicians, many of whom he works with over and again. His brother Jonathan Nolan has worked as a writer on several films, and his wife, Emma Thomas, is his producer.

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