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Christopher NolanAs one of very few directors billed above his stars, Christopher Nolan was almost in with a shout at reviving post-lockdown cinema. As it turned out, the late August release of Tenet was the last gasp off an overly-optimistic pandemic summer. Now, in December, with the next Bond movie delayed once more, the cinemas have hunkered down for the long winter.See the Story
Time Is Always Time: Christopher Nolan, T. S. Eliot, and Creatureliness
Oxford, England · OxfordBefore he began drafting The Lord of the Rings, “the long defeat” was already an important theme to J.R.R. Tolkien. Though it is operative in the writings that would in time become The Silmarillion, it was only implicitly present within them, an ingredient in their sad grandeur but not elaborated upon as a principle. It was in reflecting upon the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf for the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture in 1936 that Tolkien would beg…Read Article
