No one tells Stephen and Timothy Quay what to do. “They don’t dare,” they tell Variety. The Quay brothers – at Annecy to receive the Honorary Cristal award – are identical twins and always speak as one voice. “We need the freedom. Otherwise, we wouldn’t do it. Christopher Nolan commissioned [‘The Doll’s Breath’] because he liked our work. … Read more
Wilson’s Odysseus himself is, by turns, heroic, cunning, cruel, conniving, maudlin, and ever-blubbering—in a word, complicated. Such sympathies naturally offended the sensibilities of those who hold Homer (and Odysseus himself) as foundational to that amorphous notion of “Western civilization,” which can seem like little more than myth sustaining white, patriarchal, Eurocentric supremacy. Some other scholars … Read more
The Odyssey is almost here and its star Matt Damon celebrated by climbing into a Trojan horse to sneak onto the stage at Jimmy Kimmel Live. As host Jimmy Kimmel delivered his final monologue before taking his annual summer break he was interrupted by a delivery driver bearing a giant wooden horse and a slightly … Read more
Christopher Nolan‘s “The Odyssey” may not be out for another month, but it’s already smashing sales records in the U.K. The BFI Imax, the U.K.’s largest screen — owned and operated by the British Film Institute and located in central London — has revealed that it sold 28,000 tickets in its first 24 hours, breaking the venue’s … Read more
When filmmaker Christopher Nolan decided to adapt The Odyssey to the big screen, he wanted the movie not only to look like ancient Greece but to sound like it too. So when he approached composer Ludwig Göransson about the score to the picture, out July 17, he challenged the Oscar winner to source authentic instruments. … Read more
Every frame of Christopher Nolan‘s “The Odyssey” was shot in Imax. But choosing a theater to watch the movie in is a little more complicated, since the epic film is coming to theaters in several formats. With tickets going on sale Thursday, “The Odyssey’s” website has provided a guide which shows how the film will … Read more
Well, it seems securing tickets for Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming epic The Odyssey turned into its own arduous journey. On Thursday, as tickets went onsale for special formats like IMAX and PLF, moviegoers faced long wait times in online queues, and in person outside of theaters, trying to secure tickets to the highly-anticipated blockbuster. Unfortunately, it … Read more
Teens and tweens hoping to find out if Odysseus makes it home to Ithaca are going to need to bring a parent or adult guardian to the multiplexes. “The Odyssey,” Christopher Nolan‘s sprawling adaptation of Homer’s epic poem, has been rated R by the Motion Picture Association. It’s unclear why the picture got this designation … Read more
Moviegoers are scrambling to reserve their seats for “The Odyssey,” and the mad dash to see what Christopher Nolan has cooked up is hitting some unexpected hurdles. Demand for Imax and other premium large format screenings of the adventure epic appears to be so high that AMC‘s ticketing app paused briefly. Sales have resumed, but … Read more