Christopher Nolan recently told “Today” that after giving his all for “The Odyssey,” it will be “at least” three years until he makes another film. “I think I definitely reached the limits of my own endurance and everyone’s,” Nolan said. “I mean, it’s ‘The Odyssey,’ of course it should be difficult. We’re not doing a
Samantha Morton doesn’t have much screen time in “The Odyssey,” but when she appears about halfway through the epic action, she takes over the movie. In an electrifying sequence that lasts approximately 10 minutes, Morton gives a searing, richly textured performance as Circe, a sorceress who transforms Odysseus’s men into pigs. In Homer’s epic, Circe
Then, a homerist, an archaeologist and a dentist walk into a bar. Fresh from a Thursday night screening of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” a group of 17 people spent the evening doing what scholars have done with Homer’s epic for nearly 3,000 years: arguing about it. “We had a really intense debate,” says Joel P.
When the first images of Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” surfaced, some of Al Gore’s worst Internet people lost their minds (Elon Musk’s boss among them). They denounced its inaccuracies, even though Homer’s epic poem is not only mythological but also part of an oral tradition in which it was expanded and remodeled over the centuries.
If Quentin Tarantino remains committed to retiring from film after his tenth feature film, then whatever film the Oscar winner decides to make next will be his big screen swan song. Christopher Nolan is disappointed. “I think it’s dangerous to look at it so specifically,” Nolan recently told The Telegraph of Tarantino’s long-discussed 10-film retirement
Christopher Nolan has dedicated “The Odyssey” to David Keighley, Imax’s first quality director and pioneer of large-format cinema, who died after a battle with cancer last year. Nolan announced the news during the film’s London premiere at the BFI Imax Theatre. Introducing the screening, he said: “This was the first place I met David, in
