Author: AURAMEDIAPRO

The first line of Homer’s Odyssey can be roughly translated as, “Tell me, O Muse, of that many-talented man.” This seems apt for Christopher Nolan, the Anglo-American director of the latest screen incarnation, who has deftly steered his way through an extraordinary 28-year career. Beginning with 1998’s Following, a microbudget black-and-white psychological thriller, he has…

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In Six O’Clock News, his 1997 meditation on emergencies, Ross McElwee visits acquaintance Barry, who’s set up a Marion Stokes–like project to constantly record everything on television, running ten sets at once, stacked together like a Nam June Paik installation. Barry’s compulsion is a variation on McElwee’s own—at least based on how he’s presented himself…

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