Sight and Sound March 2024

“The critical praise and astonishing commercial success that greeted Oppenheimer have only confirmed Christopher Nolan’s unique position in cinema today. Who else could have written, got financed and then directed a three-hour, $100 million studio film about the life of the brilliant but flawed ‘father of the atomic bomb’? A film that explores the reverberations of Oppenheimer’s life through American politics and the world of science – not to mention the profound implications of atomic weaponry for humankind. And who but Nolan would have seen that film become an unprecedented box-office hit, taking $1 billion worldwide (and counting)?”

— James Bell, introducing his cover interview with Christopher Nolan