Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan will be the focus of a retro series at the Toronto International Film Festival’s summer marquee. Starting before the North-American theatrical premiere of ‘The Odyssey’ on July 17, the series titled ‘Christopher Nolan: Grand Designs’ will run from July 8 to August 20 at TIFF Lightbox cinema. The screenings will exclusively feature Nolan’s works on 35mm and 70mm film formats.
Nolan, known for his directorial debut with “Following” in 1998, will have all 12 of his films showcased at the retrospective. This includes movies like ‘Memento’, ‘Insomnia’, ‘Batman Begins’, ‘The Prestige’, ‘The Dark Knight’, ‘Inception’, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, ‘Interstellar’, ‘Dunkirk’, ‘Tenet’, and ‘Oppenheimer’. The series will also include a screening of Philip Kaufman’s ‘The Right Stuff’, a film Nolan has cited as one of his favorites.
The TIFF summer series retro will not have Nolan in attendance, as per reports. Additionally, a “quote along” screening of Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ is scheduled before the ‘Oppenheimer’ screening on July 18. This is in reference to the ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon of the Summer of 2023.
A marquee screening series of Japanese anime cinema titled “Drawn Universes: Visions in Animation” curated by Masaaki Yuasa is also announced by TIFF, set to run in November and December 2026.
