4:30pm - 1990s - Following - dir. Christopher Nolan - Starring: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell
Christopher Nolan (and his screen-writing brother Jonathan, who helped out on this film) burst onto the world stage with the intricately plotted and staged Memento. A year or so earlier, a small film was released called Following. It, like many other films from the '90s, heralded the arrival of a bold new director, one who would create a brain-trust of friends and go on to revolutionise every genre they touched afterwards. You may know him better as the re-inventor of Batman, or as the creator of Inception, or as the director who coaxed David Bowie into one last big budget film role before retirement.
So, what's this early effort of his about then? It might be best if we leave it at this description: a blonde, a burglar, a blackmailer and a young aspiring writer... all interwoven in one of Nolan's customarily fiendishly complex narratives. Check out the trailer below for an idea on the film's tone:
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