Part of Weekend Classics: Beat The Heat
Our destiny lies above us. From INCEPTION’s “architecture of the mind” to the furthest reaches of our scientific understanding, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Christopher Nolan takes us on another epic science fiction journey with INTERSTELLAR. Based on scientific theories of CalTech physicist Kip Thorne, Nolan’s deep space opus depicts a heroic interstellar voyage to the very edge of the universe. Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway join an acclaimed crew including Jessica Chastain and veterans Ellen Burstyn and Michael Caine as members of an interspace exploratory team that overcome the impossible by traveling through a newly discovered wormhole, surpassing the limits of human space travel and emerging in another dimension entirely.
“An exhilarating slalom through the wormholes of Christopher Nolan’s vast imagination that is at once a science-geek fever dream and a formidable consideration of what makes us human. As visually and conceptually audacious as anything Nolan has yet done…. Intensely personal, INTERSTELLAR reaffirms Nolan as the premier big-canvas storyteller of his generation.” —Scott Foundas, Variety (Oct 27, 2014) “Mr. Nolan takes the universe and eternity itself as his subject and his canvas, brilliantly exploiting cinema’s ability to shift backward and sideways in time…even as it moves relentlessly forward…. INTERSTELLAR may take its place in the pantheon of space movies because it answers an acute earthly need, a desire not only for adventure and novelty but also, in the end, for comfort.” —A.O. Scott, NYT Critic’s Pick, New York Times (Nov 4, 2014)
