Christopher Nolan won Best Director at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards and recalled when he exercised and heard harsh criticism
Despite having a filmography full of classic and critically acclaimed films, Christopher Nolan released some features that didn’t do well, either at the box office or in opinion. For example, there was a day when the filmmaker heard a gym instructor detonate Tenetreleased on October 29, 2020 in Brazilian cinemas.
When he won the award for Best Director at the New York Film Critics Circle Awardsthe filmmaker recalled this unusual story. Tenet follows a secret agent on a dangerous mission to prevent the start of Third World War. The cast included names like John David Washington (Protagonist), Elizabeth Debicki (Kate), Robert Pattinson (Neil), Kenneth Branagh (Andrey Sator), Clémence Poesy (Laura), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Ives), between others.
“I was on my exercise bike. I’m dying. And the instructor started talking about one of my movies and said, ‘Has anyone seen this? That’s a few hours of my life that I’ll never get back!'” he recalled (via Variety).
When [o crítico de cinema] Rex Reed shit on your movie, it doesn’t ask you to work out!
“Directors have a complex emotional relationship with critics and reviews. One question we often get asked is: Do we read reviews? Let’s start with the fact that I’m British. A typical family gathering involves relatives saying to me, ‘You know, Christopher. You probably shouldn’t open the The Guardian today,'” he continued.
“Obviously, writing about cinema objectively is a paradox, but aspirations for objectivity are what make criticism vital, timeless, and useful to filmmakers and the film community,” he explained.
Finally, Christopher Nolan spoke about the importance of professional film criticism: “In today’s world, where opinions are everywhere, there is a kind of idea that film criticism is being democratized, but I, for my part, think that critical appreciation of films should not be an instinct, but should be a profession.”
They found the Peloton instructor and she’s brutal pic.twitter.com/i79Css1NLGhttps://t.co/dRcYUakC3C
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Source: Rollingstone
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