Celebrating Christopher Nolan

Guy Pearce plays Leonard who has anterograde amnesia (the inability to form new memories) after an injury. The last thing he remembers is the murder of his wife and attempts to find her murderer using Polaroid photographs and the tattoos on his body to track the information he cannot remember.

The first entry in The Dark Night Trilogy and the film that launched Christopher Nolan’s career as a big Hollywood director, this is the origin story of The Dark Knight. Following the murder of his parents, a young Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice with the help of loyal butler Alfred (Michael Caine), Detective Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and ally Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), he returns to Gotham City as Batman, where he must battle the deadly forces which threaten the city.

Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale) enlists the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and District Attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckart) in an attempt to dismantle organized crime in Gotham City for good. They are thwarted by an anarchistic mastermind known as The Joker (the late Heath Ledger) who seeks to undermine Batman’s influence and turn the city to chaos. Recognised as both putting superhero films back on the map, and as a modern crime epic in the same vein of films like The Godfather and Heat, this was also Heath Ledger’s final film before he died. His performance as the Joker has become a pop culture icon.  

In the final instalment of Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy, set eight years after the events of The Dark Knight. The ruthless revolutionary known as Bane (Tom Hardy) forces Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) to come out of hiding once again to take on the role of the Batman, in the ultimate battle for Gotham’s survival and his own. Also stars Anne Hathaway as Catwoman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in supporting roles.

Hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded on all sides by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach as the enemy closes in, they face an impossible situation. Dunkirk depicts the evacuation of World War lI from land, sea and air, as RAF Spitfires try to protect the defenceless men down below. Meanwhile, hundreds of boats manned by military and civilians mount a rescue effort in a race against time to save most of their army. It stars a whole host of British acting talent from old and new among others Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and Harry Styles in his first and only acting role to date.