Christopher Nolan: Moving Through Time

celebrates 25th anniversary of Walker Dialogues & Retrospectives

MINNEAPOLIS, March 24 2015The Walker Art Center is pleased to announce special offerings and events celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Walker Dialogue and Retrospective series, including Christopher Nolan: Moving Through Time, a full career retrospective May 8-24 and dialogue with Christopher Nolan and Variety chief film critic Scott Foundas on May 5 in the Walker Cinema.

"For 25 years the Walker Dialogue and Retrospective program has presented some of the most innovative and influential filmmakers of our time. Starting with Clint Eastwood in 1990, over sixty guestsAng Lee, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jane Campion, Steve McQueen, and Jodie Foster to name a fewhave discussed their love of cinema with leading critics, writers, and historians," said Sheryl Mousley, Senior Curator, Film/Video at the Walker. "We are thrilled and honored to celebrate this milestone with Christopher Nolan whose unique vision will play out as we screen all of his feature films, all from 35mm prints."

In addition to Christopher Nolan: Moving Through Time, the Walker website will launch a new landing page dedicated to the Dialogue and Retrospective history, a Walker-produced documentary about the program will be on view in the Lecture Room, and a series of crowd-sourced films from past programs will screen in the Walker Cinema this summer. Also, the current exhibition Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, celebrating the Walker's 75th anniversary as a public art center, will feature a special gallery space to view excerpts of the past 25 years of Dialogues.


CHRISTOPHER NOLAN: MOVING THROUGH TIME

Exploring universal themes of family, love, and loss as well as the implications of more concretely physical phenomenagravity, matter, and timeChristopher Nolan is a director whose work is renowned by audiences, critics, and fellow filmmakers alike. First gaining attention in the United States in 2001 with the independent film and Sundance hit Memento, he has maintained his distinctive perspective with his recent films while also enjoying enormous popular attention. He investigates sleep and memory disorders as well as the world of dreams not only through the inner lives of his characters but in the form of parallel or nonlinear narratives (Insomnia, Memento, Inception).

Other films question the illusory nature of reality and, often at the same time, explore the boundaries of the human mind and the physical world (Inception, Interstellar). His nod to film noir (Following) and the early, illusory days of cinema (The Prestige) show him to be a well-known advocate of celluloid. The Walker is pleased to run a full career retrospective of his work on 35mm, plus a stimulating Walker Dialogue between Nolan and Variety chief film critic Scott Foundas.

All films are directed by Christopher Nolan and screened in the Walker Cinema. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are $9 ($7 Walker members, students, and seniors). View all three films in The Dark Knight Trilogy: $20 ($15 Walker members, seniors and students).

Walker Dialogue: Christopher Nolan with Scott Foundas
Tuesday, May 5, 8 pm
$30 ($25 Walker members, students and seniors)

Following
Thursday, May 7, 7 pm
FREE

Memento
Friday, May 8, 7 pm

Insomnia
Saturday, May 9, 7 pm

The Prestige
Thursday, May 14, 7 pm
FREE

Inception
Friday, May 15, 7 pm

Interstellar
Saturday, May 17, 7 pm

Batman Begins
Friday, May 22, 7 pm

The Dark Knight
Saturday, May 23, 7 pm

The Dark Knight Rises
Sunday, May 24, 2 pm

Ticket on-sale date for Retrospective film screenings:
Walker Film Club, Walker Members, and General Public: March 24, 11 am

Ticket on-sale dates for Dialogue:
Walker Film Club: April 7, 11 am
Walker Members: April 14, 11 am
General Public: April 21, 11 am