Following

Director: Christopher Nolan

1998 / 69min / DCP

For the opening act of his world-conquering career, Nolan summoned up all the precision and intelligence of his later work on a shoestring budget, crafting this taut, hard-edged black-and-white neo-noir—shot on 16mm, with Nolan himself acting as cinematographer—about an aspiring writer who spends his driftless days tracking strangers across London in search of inspiration, only to be drawn into criminal temptation by one of his “subjects.” A compelling, resourceful, paranoiac thriller, with a tricky flashback structure that anticipates the breakthrough of Memento two years later.

Part of '90s Noir