My complete critique of Nolan's filmography, remastered into one unabridged video, which is how I always envisioned it. It's a big one so feel free to skip around or let it play in the background, but as always; consider doing so ad-free on Nebula, which also supports the channel if you sign up through my link: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-christopher-nolan-the-ultimate-critique Which other director would be interesting for a full-on dissection like this?
As an editor, I can speculate as to *how much work* went into a video of this length. Kudos to you, I can't wait to watch this in full. This channel is such a refreshing reprieve from what's happening in the film industry, and with generative-AI slop, right now. Thank you.
The comeback story of Interstellar is pretty crazy. I remember when the movie came out, I loved it but pretty much everyone I knew and in my movie circles thought it was a disappointment and considered it a miss. I assumed this movie would disappear into obscurity and people would forget about it, but nowadays I have met a bunch of people who hardly follow movies or even barely know who Nolan is will say Interstellar is their favorite movie. Like when did so many people see this movie over the last 10 years?
I listened to this in it's entirety and I have to say I enjoyed every minute of it. I have been a long time Nolan fan and I enjoyed all of your takes on each film. You are correct in saying that Interstellar is a favorite movie of so many people. It is my all time favorite movie. It's so human and emotional. Matthew really put his heart and soul into the role of Cooper. Thank you for making this video.
Well, this is half of the workday sorted❤ Best Surprise of the Week!!Thank you so much!!! I love Nolan and his films, The Prestige and Memento especially, fantastic director and we are so lucky to be able to see his work. I do feel the pain and emotional turmoil of those films, no matter what the critics say about them, these movies show so much of our lives through scenes and dialogues, all you need to do is recognize yourself in them. In "Inception" it drove me nuts that the totem that was spinning belonged to Mal, so it does not matter, it would not work for Cobb even in his dream, it does not belong to him.
Wonderful essay. Had to watch it in bits, but was illuminating. My only quibble with Oppenheimer was the portrayal of Harry Truman in the film: he would never, EVER have so nakedly and directly insulted someone to their face. The on-screen portrayal reminded me of that of Vice President Johnson in The Right Stuff, which by many accounts was accurate.
I consider myself someone who really thinks deeply about films… but despite its shortcomings, can’t help but think Interstellar is one of my top 10 favorite movies ever. The performances, the score, the settings. Seems like a good time to rewatch it 😅
Well, it took me two weeks, but I just finished this magnum opus. What a treat! Thank you for devoting so much of your time to making the best long-form director analysis video I've seen.
I Love all his movies!! Top Moments 1. Cobb arriving to the airport while TIME theme is playing 2. no time for caution Interstellar 3. Robin stepping on the Batcave platform 4. Two face... Harvey two face 5. all the reverse scenes TENET
Fantastic work. As someone who's made a cade for Insomnia as an underdiscussed film in Nolan's filmography I especially appreciate the space you afford it here.
I’d love more long-form analysis like this about different directors’ works. This channel would absolutely blow away a video about Kubrick, Tarkovsky, or Fincher. Great job ❤❤❤
No doubt a heartfelt work of great depth. A great insight into your detailed grasp of movies and directors that matter. As ever, a great watch and deep dive into a director that has made a massive impact on the movie world.
I think The Dark Knight Rises is carried by its purely visceral spectacle and awesomeness but yeah, the themes are much more convoluted there. What Nolan was going for, I think, that Gotham was still corrupt and broken, it was just the crime that had been fixed. The symptoms had been treated but not the disease. I think that was decently conveyed in the first half but then sort of dropped for the second half which, while viscerally awesome, was lacking outside of being a great popcorn flick (and Bruce Wayne's personal journey, as you noted, was done quite well).
nearly didn't read the pin or description.. and was about to post about how I've heard this opening before lol - well, here I am, posting! quite a long one, I think it will be great to go over this content again. Looking forward to sitting down with it
Yes, it's mostly aimed at people who haven't seen (all of) the previous videos, but I really wanted to have it all together in one project for posterity. The introduction is slightly re-written but if you've seen all the older videos you're not missing out
@@LikeStoriesofOld Ah, make sense. Thank you. You're one of my favorite content creators but I gotta cut down on my watch times, it's getting out of hand lol. Big fan, looking forward to your future works!
Amazing work. There is a lot to absorb here, obviously, and I suspect one would be rewarded for muscle watches, like a Nolan film. Ill watch this again at some point. Managing to present both an over all view of Nolan's work, and a detailed break down of each of his movies and how they talk to each other is a fantastic achievement.
My contribution to Nolan discourse and evaluation is: "Eh, he's alright." I don't click with his tone half the time, nor his editing style. It's odd because he can definitely craft images that strike me yet at the same time his compositions feel...loose? Sloppy? He goes handheld a lot, and I don't think it suits him. He's better at more classically formal style. His more chaotic camera work and editing just annoys me.
@@imposter6952 I guess chaotic is the wrong word. I see more intentionality in Noe's and PCW camera than I do Nolan's. Nolan's editing just has this sharp, abrupt effect I simply don't vibe with.
46:40 So I'm not really sure it's accurate to call Dormer a 'redeemed sinner'. His death isn't really redemption, but more a part of his confession and warning to the young sheriff. As the innkeeper said "what you're willing to live with" -- Dormer wasn't willing to live with it anymore. So he confessed (i.e. fully acknowledged all that he had done) and died. He's not going to face the legal/social consequences of his wrongdoings because he'd have to be alive to that. In other words, he'd have to be able to live with it. Turns out, when he's honest with himself and the world, he can't live with it. Death isn't rest. It's not sleep and it's not peace. He's not going to wake up tomorrow and feel good or healthy. He's just going to be dead.
Your analysis of Inception and the abandonment of the ideal of certainty in favor of embracing a reality which has subjective meaning may have changed my entire worldview
Interesting thoughts about the batman movies. I have to say though, that I don't agree with you about the significance of Talia. Without her vengeance arc against Bruce, the whole plot would have to change. Bane does all of the things to personally hurt Bruce and make him suffer in a very specific way on Talias' orders. If it was up to Bane alone, I'm sure he would have snapped Batman's neck and gone all the way with his anarchistic revolution without blowing up the city. Talia is what enables the whole plot. The first time that I watched the movie, I felt similarly to you. I was a little bit disappointed for some reason, but after rewatching it reasently, I enjoy it a lot more because I've had more time to consider many details of the story.
That feeling when a 4.25 hour video about moves comes out and I've consumed it in less than a day but also "I don't have time to watch any movie this video is about that came out after 2019" 😂😅
I'm breaking a personal rule by entering this comment before watching all of this video (I've got to Dunkirk and need to watch it before continuing) but your explanation/description of Interstellar and its themes lit a fuse in my head and I won't rest until I've mentioned it. Up to Interstellar, Nolan's movies seemed, as you described them, to be intellectual puzzles and/or investigations along those lines. Interstellar, on the other hand, you describe as ''emotional'' and you refer several times to the theme of love. Is this not (or could it possibly be) that Nolan had come around to the notion of ''empathy'' which is the deepest and truest form of love that there is. It's been said many times by better people than me that Empathy is the true test of humanity, not intellect. Whilst I realise I'm sounding cliched after the constant analyses of Blade Runner and its ilk, and the re-evaluation of Phillip K. Dick that we've seen recently, you never brought up this point. Is it not possible that Nolan, a truly gifted film maker I'd agree, was either late coming to this realisation or just completely distracted from it by his love of tortuous plots and intellectually stimulating movies? I'm no expert, I have no academic qualifications, I'm just a regular viewer who sometimes gets a bee in his bonnet, but this question bothers me (and I'm too old to care how much of a dick I might seem by asking lol).
There's a weird sound at 2:54:16 that seems to be an editing error. Its not a big deal, it lasts like less then a second, but i bring it up because maybe you didn't notice. The video is great by the way and i'll express my thoughts in another comment when i get to the end.
There is nothing hard to comprehend about Oppenheimer with regard to its presentation but if you are not a physics enthusiast you might be bored. Lines like "we are going to unleash the strong force" really worked on me and the characters because it is plainly what a nuclear bomb does. But if you don't have any idea what the strong force is or how much energy it contains it will just wash over you. The movie is littered with moments like this.
Arepo is just Opera spelled backwards, only there for one of the theme of the film and not a super important character imo besides being associated with Kate and putting her in a bad situation with Sator due to her being close to Arepo and trusting him. For me the movie wasn’t hard to follow since it was Memento that inspired him to do this film, and knowing instantly that The Protagonist was fighting hisself on the first view.
@@LikeStoriesofOld haha, thanks! This was an amazing deep dive into Christopher Nolan's work. I can't imagine how long it took to record and edit this whole thing.
My complete critique of Nolan's filmography, remastered into one unabridged video, which is how I always envisioned it. It's a big one so feel free to skip around or let it play in the background, but as always; consider doing so ad-free on Nebula, which also supports the channel if you sign up through my link: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-christopher-nolan-the-ultimate-critique
Which other director would be interesting for a full-on dissection like this?
Denis Villeneuve
Danny Boyle would be stellar.
Robert Eggars
Bong Joon Ho
Terrence Malick.
Elem Klimov.
But, seriously, Malick. He may require 5 hours.
As an editor, I can speculate as to *how much work* went into a video of this length. Kudos to you, I can't wait to watch this in full. This channel is such a refreshing reprieve from what's happening in the film industry, and with generative-AI slop, right now. Thank you.
Well there go my plans to clean the house tonight
You could listen to this while you clean the house.
Not much else could motivate me this much to clean the house.
But I guess it’s not crediting how much work the visual component of these videos takes.
@@treygoldsworthy1402 I would, but I want to see it and that I can't half ass!
@@treygoldsworthy1402 it's not the same if you can't see what he's showing
@@treygoldsworthy1402i can’t dual wield, if i watch a video i gotta be 100% locked in😂
David Bowie being Tesla in The Prestige will never not be cool to me lol
For real!!! All these years later that's one of the first things that comes to mind when I think of The Prestige.
You made it man. You did it. The elusive 4 hour analysis. I'm so happy for you.
Can't wait for the ditecror's cut of this video
😂
Holy moly. Grabbing my popcorn for this one. I am seated.
Bro took it upon himself to make a Nolan + Length video for him. Incredible.
What i love about Nolan's movies is their rewatchability. His movies are usually even better on their 2nd watch and 3rd...
You are a wonderful creator and critic. Thank you for all your hard work!
The comeback story of Interstellar is pretty crazy. I remember when the movie came out, I loved it but pretty much everyone I knew and in my movie circles thought it was a disappointment and considered it a miss. I assumed this movie would disappear into obscurity and people would forget about it, but nowadays I have met a bunch of people who hardly follow movies or even barely know who Nolan is will say Interstellar is their favorite movie. Like when did so many people see this movie over the last 10 years?
I never skip a long form Tenet review! It went from "I'm skipping it" to "I bought it and love it"
Clicked on the video, noticed it's 4 hours long. Me: "I am here for this."
Wow, what a masterwork of an essay!
I listened to this in it's entirety and I have to say I enjoyed every minute of it. I have been a long time Nolan fan and I enjoyed all of your takes on each film. You are correct in saying that Interstellar is a favorite movie of so many people. It is my all time favorite movie. It's so human and emotional. Matthew really put his heart and soul into the role of Cooper. Thank you for making this video.
First time I watch a Nolan film I like it. Second and third time I do it absolutely blows me away. His films are made for re-watch in my opinion
Well, this is half of the workday sorted❤ Best Surprise of the Week!!Thank you so much!!! I love Nolan and his films, The Prestige and Memento especially, fantastic director and we are so lucky to be able to see his work.
I do feel the pain and emotional turmoil of those films, no matter what the critics say about them, these movies show so much of our lives through scenes and dialogues, all you need to do is recognize yourself in them.
In "Inception" it drove me nuts that the totem that was spinning belonged to Mal, so it does not matter, it would not work for Cobb even in his dream, it does not belong to him.
Wonderful essay. Had to watch it in bits, but was illuminating.
My only quibble with Oppenheimer was the portrayal of Harry Truman in the film: he would never, EVER have so nakedly and directly insulted someone to their face. The on-screen portrayal reminded me of that of Vice President Johnson in The Right Stuff, which by many accounts was accurate.
I'm glad for the detailed videos about Nolan, but have you ever made a video about Bergman? You could have a field day with Persona.
Perfect gift for my 10 years long Nolan obsession
I consider myself someone who really thinks deeply about films… but despite its shortcomings, can’t help but think Interstellar is one of my top 10 favorite movies ever. The performances, the score, the settings. Seems like a good time to rewatch it 😅
Well, it took me two weeks, but I just finished this magnum opus. What a treat!
Thank you for devoting so much of your time to making the best long-form director analysis video I've seen.
Masterful, your writing and presentation are unparalleled. You utterly spoil us.
I Love all his movies!!
Top Moments
1. Cobb arriving to the airport while TIME theme is playing
2. no time for caution Interstellar
3. Robin stepping on the Batcave platform
4. Two face... Harvey two face
5. all the reverse scenes TENET
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Fantastic work. As someone who's made a cade for Insomnia as an underdiscussed film in Nolan's filmography I especially appreciate the space you afford it here.
I’d love more long-form analysis like this about different directors’ works. This channel would absolutely blow away a video about Kubrick, Tarkovsky, or Fincher. Great job ❤❤❤
You mentioned this on the podcast. What an achievement. Congrats!
Please dont be angry, but i'm gonna have to watch this whole thing in separate sections on different days.
No problem at all!
Perfect timing! Just watched Doford's excellent documentary on Nolan.
No doubt a heartfelt work of great depth. A great insight into your detailed grasp of movies and directors that matter. As ever, a great watch and deep dive into a director that has made a massive impact on the movie world.
Incredible video. Thanks so much.
Wow, a critique that’s 4 hours long is in a way a praise if you think about it
Critique can be both positive and negative. It's like doing analysis
@@Thompson51Yeah, critiquing is constructive and can be positive or negative. Criticizing is what is only ever negative.
I think The Dark Knight Rises is carried by its purely visceral spectacle and awesomeness but yeah, the themes are much more convoluted there. What Nolan was going for, I think, that Gotham was still corrupt and broken, it was just the crime that had been fixed. The symptoms had been treated but not the disease. I think that was decently conveyed in the first half but then sort of dropped for the second half which, while viscerally awesome, was lacking outside of being a great popcorn flick (and Bruce Wayne's personal journey, as you noted, was done quite well).
Hell yeah looking forward to this
As always, a piece of art. Thank you.
nearly didn't read the pin or description.. and was about to post about how I've heard this opening before lol - well, here I am, posting! quite a long one, I think it will be great to go over this content again. Looking forward to sitting down with it
So, is this like a compilation of previous reviews of Nolan's movies? Because I've already watched all of them...
Yes, it's mostly aimed at people who haven't seen (all of) the previous videos, but I really wanted to have it all together in one project for posterity. The introduction is slightly re-written but if you've seen all the older videos you're not missing out
@@LikeStoriesofOld Ah, make sense. Thank you. You're one of my favorite content creators but I gotta cut down on my watch times, it's getting out of hand lol. Big fan, looking forward to your future works!
Amazing work. There is a lot to absorb here, obviously, and I suspect one would be rewarded for muscle watches, like a Nolan film. Ill watch this again at some point.
Managing to present both an over all view of Nolan's work, and a detailed break down of each of his movies and how they talk to each other is a fantastic achievement.
I got to 1:40:41 before I looked at my screen to see how long the video was. 😂
Mom new LSOO vid dropped, I've downloaded it and am going into the mountains for a week to commune with being itself
I recommend especially the part between 3,5 and 4 hours.
😂 lol yeah on what planet are you watching. Skipped right to the good part.
Wow... this is going to take a while to get through! But I'm looking forward to it!
Well there goes all my plans for the evening 🍿🍿
Jenny Nicholson has a LOT to answer for, but as always with her and with you, I'm in.
LOL. I saw the runtime and immediately thought, "Four hours?! I'm never going to watch a... oh, I already did."
My contribution to Nolan discourse and evaluation is: "Eh, he's alright." I don't click with his tone half the time, nor his editing style. It's odd because he can definitely craft images that strike me yet at the same time his compositions feel...loose? Sloppy?
He goes handheld a lot, and I don't think it suits him. He's better at more classically formal style. His more chaotic camera work and editing just annoys me.
If you think Nolan's camera work/ editing is chaotic what are you gonna say to Gasper Noe's camerawork and Park chan wook's editing?
@@imposter6952 I guess chaotic is the wrong word.
I see more intentionality in Noe's and PCW camera than I do Nolan's.
Nolan's editing just has this sharp, abrupt effect I simply don't vibe with.
46:40 So I'm not really sure it's accurate to call Dormer a 'redeemed sinner'. His death isn't really redemption, but more a part of his confession and warning to the young sheriff. As the innkeeper said "what you're willing to live with" -- Dormer wasn't willing to live with it anymore. So he confessed (i.e. fully acknowledged all that he had done) and died. He's not going to face the legal/social consequences of his wrongdoings because he'd have to be alive to that. In other words, he'd have to be able to live with it. Turns out, when he's honest with himself and the world, he can't live with it.
Death isn't rest. It's not sleep and it's not peace. He's not going to wake up tomorrow and feel good or healthy. He's just going to be dead.
Your analysis of Inception and the abandonment of the ideal of certainty in favor of embracing a reality which has subjective meaning may have changed my entire worldview
Just seeing this at 1000 pm on a work day. Going to be a LOOONGG day tomorrow. 😊
WOW! My day just got a lot more interesting! I'm #442 and counting.
Not watching, but liked and commented to boost your ridiculous effort
Interesting thoughts about the batman movies. I have to say though, that I don't agree with you about the significance of Talia. Without her vengeance arc against Bruce, the whole plot would have to change. Bane does all of the things to personally hurt Bruce and make him suffer in a very specific way on Talias' orders. If it was up to Bane alone, I'm sure he would have snapped Batman's neck and gone all the way with his anarchistic revolution without blowing up the city. Talia is what enables the whole plot.
The first time that I watched the movie, I felt similarly to you. I was a little bit disappointed for some reason, but after rewatching it reasently, I enjoy it a lot more because I've had more time to consider many details of the story.
4 hours... and i will watch every second of them
I guess Nolan quite a while to do this a whole movie with reverse video. He already did it in the opening sequence of Memento.
Worth every minute of that watch
Speechless.
Next?
Terrence Malick, please.
It would complete me.
This, for all major directors.
And self publish all the transcripts as a single book.
That feeling when a 4.25 hour video about moves comes out and I've consumed it in less than a day but also "I don't have time to watch any movie this video is about that came out after 2019" 😂😅
Wow, we're in for treat...🎊🎊🎊
I think the oscars showed oppenheimer WAS understood
Memento will always be my favorite Nolan film.
How can I love you someone I’ve never met ! Tysm
Is it the same analysis as your other Nolan videos just stitched together?
First review I've seen that is twice as long as the movie
I'm breaking a personal rule by entering this comment before watching all of this video (I've got to Dunkirk and need to watch it before continuing) but your explanation/description of Interstellar and its themes lit a fuse in my head and I won't rest until I've mentioned it. Up to Interstellar, Nolan's movies seemed, as you described them, to be intellectual puzzles and/or investigations along those lines. Interstellar, on the other hand, you describe as ''emotional'' and you refer several times to the theme of love.
Is this not (or could it possibly be) that Nolan had come around to the notion of ''empathy'' which is the deepest and truest form of love that there is. It's been said many times by better people than me that Empathy is the true test of humanity, not intellect. Whilst I realise I'm sounding cliched after the constant analyses of Blade Runner and its ilk, and the re-evaluation of Phillip K. Dick that we've seen recently, you never brought up this point. Is it not possible that Nolan, a truly gifted film maker I'd agree, was either late coming to this realisation or just completely distracted from it by his love of tortuous plots and intellectually stimulating movies?
I'm no expert, I have no academic qualifications, I'm just a regular viewer who sometimes gets a bee in his bonnet, but this question bothers me (and I'm too old to care how much of a dick I might seem by asking lol).
Your voice sounds mysterious, I like it.
There's a weird sound at 2:54:16 that seems to be an editing error. Its not a big deal, it lasts like less then a second, but i bring it up because maybe you didn't notice. The video is great by the way and i'll express my thoughts in another comment when i get to the end.
Oh that seems like a rendering glitch, but I can probably fix that in the YT editor, thanks for pointing that out!
Incredible work
There is nothing hard to comprehend about Oppenheimer with regard to its presentation but if you are not a physics enthusiast you might be bored. Lines like "we are going to unleash the strong force" really worked on me and the characters because it is plainly what a nuclear bomb does. But if you don't have any idea what the strong force is or how much energy it contains it will just wash over you. The movie is littered with moments like this.
I guess this is what I’m watching for the next 5 days
Feels like I'm not ready for this video yet since I'll need to give it full attention as much as you put in the effort. Watch later~
Arepo is just Opera spelled backwards, only there for one of the theme of the film and not a super important character imo besides being associated with Kate and putting her in a bad situation with Sator due to her being close to Arepo and trusting him. For me the movie wasn’t hard to follow since it was Memento that inspired him to do this film, and knowing instantly that The Protagonist was fighting hisself on the first view.
Good job this is great
You should really do a tldw version of this. I mean I'm interested in the topic, but as a dad I can't spare over four hours on this :(
Anyone know the background music at 1:55:30?
I do! That's "Mar de Grau" by Cardamom
@@LikeStoriesofOld haha, thanks! This was an amazing deep dive into Christopher Nolan's work. I can't imagine how long it took to record and edit this whole thing.
Too much content
I love it😂
Watching this like when the titanic vhs used to be two cassettes
Good lord. This is practically a thesis.
Holy, know what I'll be doing for the next few moments
Brother you're like the ASMR of film philosophy. 😎 🎉😴
Also your videos inspire me to start filming. Here's a sub and a thanks.
I saw someone share their notes on an older video, if there’s a note taker watching this one I’d really appreciate it if you could share them
Please make a video about all Kubrick movies …
Oh, WE ARE SO BACK.
That's going to be a multi-day listening
Is it a formerly done and combined essay?
Here before a million views
Masterclass
Is it a compilation of previous videos or this dude just went ahead and made the longest nerdiest movie essay of all time?
Tldr? Good or bad?
42:58 did you phrase that right? Wouldn't that make it 'anti-moral realism'? I mean, that phrasing makes more sense.
Should I have seen all of these movies at least once before watching this? I’m only missing Following and Insomnia
Thanks!
David Fincher next!
All great filmmakers get the benefit of a doubt unless you're Schrader 2:17
Thx
oh man i'll watch this one nice and slow!
Please do a video about 'Attack On Titan'
This analysis is longer than an actual Christopher Nolan movie
this video feels like you spent 10 years making it and I only watched first 2 hours so far
Videos too short
Tenet is my favourite Nolan movie