Christopher Nolan screened The Battle of Algiers for his crew as an operational blueprint for how to shoot urban warfare — the verité approach, the documentary realism, the sense that what we're watching is happening in real time. Bane's takeover of Gotham mirrors Pontecorvo's depiction of insurgency: tactical, patient, willing to endure casualties. In a 2012 DGA interview, Nolan was explicit: Pontecorvo showed him how to make terrorism feel inevitable rather than sensationalized. The Battle of Algiers is available on MUBI.
'Metropolis' (1927) is the great example of that, where you have a city as a character, and the city as a symbol of modernity, and all the possibilities and all the dangers of that.
— Christopher Nolan · Total Film (via GamesRadar+)
Metropolis is the great example of that, where you have a city as a character, and the city as a symbol of modernity, and all the possibilities and all the dangers of that.
— Christopher Nolan · Total Film (via GamesRadar+)
Metropolis is the great example of a city as a character, and the city as a symbol of modernity, and all the possibilities and all the dangers of that.
— Christopher Nolan · Total Film (via GamesRadar+)
Films That Influenced The Dark Knight Rises
