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Memento

February 2024

  • Christopher Nolan with fellow Oppenheimer producer Emma Thomas as he received the BFI Fellowship earlier this week.

    Christopher Nolan set for triumphant Baftas homecoming with Oppenheimer

    Despite five previous nominations the Oppenheimer director has yet to walk away with a gong – but the signs are looking good

January 2024

  • Carrie-Anne Moss and Guy Pearce in Memento (2000); Joseph Gordon Levitt in Inception (2010); Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer (2023).

    Mark Kermode on film
    Mark Kermode on… director Christopher Nolan, a magician of cinema as memory

    From Memento to the Golden Globe-winning Oppenheimer, the head-scrambling British-American director has revelled in using cinema as a time machine – and a conjuring trick

March 2021

  • Guy Pearce in Memento.

    Memento at 20: Christopher Nolan's memory thriller is hard to forget

    The ambitiously structured noir gave us an early sign of what was to come from the director who would go on to bigger, if not always better, things

August 2020

  • Favourite Christopher Nolan films, clockwise from top: The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk, Memento, The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar.

    From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films

    With the much-anticipated staggered release of Tenet, writers argue why each of Christopher Nolan’s 10 previous films should be seen as his best

November 2015

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    Remaking Memento, the Mummy and more: a Hollywood insider reveals all

  • Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss in Memento

    Memento remake: chance to improve the original or instantly forgettable gaffe?

  • Fast and Furious 5 film still

    The Guardian's Film Weekly
    The Dailies Podcast: Remembering Memento and Spectre-bashing

  • The film forces us to wear Lenny's shoes ... Memento. Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock

    Christopher Nolan's Memento is being remade – just 15 years after the original

April 2015

  • Tomas flunks his test … Force Majeure. Photograph: Allstar/Magnolia PicturesJ

    I watch therefore I am: seven movies that teach us key philosophy lessons

    The dilemma in chilling new drama Force Majeure raises philosophical quandaries, but it’s not the first film to do so. Memento, Ida and It’s A Wonderful Life all address the Big Questions

November 2014

  • Christopher Nolan, right, on the set of Interstellar with the film's star Matthew McConaughey.

    The long read
    Christopher Nolan: the man who rebooted the blockbuster

    The long read: He is one of the few directors who can walk into a Hollywood studio with an idea and come out with $200m. So, asks Tom Shone, will Nolan’s latest epic, Interstellar, reinforce his reputation as the auteur who thinks big?

August 2014

  • Guy Pearce

    Guy Pearce: ‘Acting’s a pretty extreme process – emotionally it’s full-on’

    The English-born actor who conquered Hollywood via Australia built his reputation on gritty roles. Here, ahead of a new post-apocalyptic turn in The Rover, he explains the secrets of survival in today's dog-eat-dog world

October 2009

  • Scene from Triangle (2009)

    Anne Billson on film
    How Memento-style narratives keep audiences engaged

    Anne Billson

    Anne Billson: You expect to find a little time-jiggling in sci-fi and fantasy films. But now everyone's at it – it's chronological chopped liver out there

October 2000

  • The best motel reception scene: Memento

    Staying at the Discount Motel, short-term memory loss victim Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) approaches receptionist Bert (Mark Boone Jr).

  • The best photograph scene: Memento

    The lobby of a cheap motel. Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), who suffers from a total loss of short-term memory, is greeted by his friend Teddy (Joe Pantoliano).

    • No, wait. It'll come to me

    • Memento

    • It's unforgettable...

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