Interstellar (2014)
Country: US/GB/CAN
Technical: col/1.44:1/2.35:1 169m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, John Lithgow, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine
Synopsis:
At a point in the not too distant future, humanity faces starvation as climate change and blight combine to wipe out crop staples. A former NASA pilot-turned farmer mysteriously happens upon a secret facility whose mission is to send astronauts through a wormhole in search of viable new worlds.
Review:
Nolan's monumental science-fiction teaser does for outer space what Inception did for inner space, and furrowed many a multiplex brow on its release. Doubtless its time-bending scenario stretches probability as much as it seeks to reconcile relativity and quantum physics, but how refreshing to see a mega-budget, mainstream production with the ambition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, say. The important thing, as always, is not the science, which is artfully dropped into the dialogue at various points, but the light the scenario sheds on our humanity and our common mortality. The vast temporal effects of space travel are the essence of that which is new here, and the team achieve astonishing technical feats of weightlessness and suchlike without ever drawing attention to them as effects per se. Hans Zimmer's chronometric music and a mixture of IMAX 70mm and conventional cinematography add further to the richness of this cinematic journey.
Country: US/GB/CAN
Technical: col/1.44:1/2.35:1 169m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, John Lithgow, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine
Synopsis:
At a point in the not too distant future, humanity faces starvation as climate change and blight combine to wipe out crop staples. A former NASA pilot-turned farmer mysteriously happens upon a secret facility whose mission is to send astronauts through a wormhole in search of viable new worlds.
Review:
Nolan's monumental science-fiction teaser does for outer space what Inception did for inner space, and furrowed many a multiplex brow on its release. Doubtless its time-bending scenario stretches probability as much as it seeks to reconcile relativity and quantum physics, but how refreshing to see a mega-budget, mainstream production with the ambition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, say. The important thing, as always, is not the science, which is artfully dropped into the dialogue at various points, but the light the scenario sheds on our humanity and our common mortality. The vast temporal effects of space travel are the essence of that which is new here, and the team achieve astonishing technical feats of weightlessness and suchlike without ever drawing attention to them as effects per se. Hans Zimmer's chronometric music and a mixture of IMAX 70mm and conventional cinematography add further to the richness of this cinematic journey.
Country: US/GB/CAN
Technical: col/1.44:1/2.35:1 169m
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, John Lithgow, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine
Synopsis:
At a point in the not too distant future, humanity faces starvation as climate change and blight combine to wipe out crop staples. A former NASA pilot-turned farmer mysteriously happens upon a secret facility whose mission is to send astronauts through a wormhole in search of viable new worlds.
Review:
Nolan's monumental science-fiction teaser does for outer space what Inception did for inner space, and furrowed many a multiplex brow on its release. Doubtless its time-bending scenario stretches probability as much as it seeks to reconcile relativity and quantum physics, but how refreshing to see a mega-budget, mainstream production with the ambition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, say. The important thing, as always, is not the science, which is artfully dropped into the dialogue at various points, but the light the scenario sheds on our humanity and our common mortality. The vast temporal effects of space travel are the essence of that which is new here, and the team achieve astonishing technical feats of weightlessness and suchlike without ever drawing attention to them as effects per se. Hans Zimmer's chronometric music and a mixture of IMAX 70mm and conventional cinematography add further to the richness of this cinematic journey.