Memento (Nolan, 2000): RooftopFilm Club, Queen of Hoxton Pub, 9pm
I have been to screenings at this venue and been
very impressed. The seating is in comfortable directors' chairs, there is excellent food and drink and
blankets to keep warm in cool weather. Here is a list of their upcoming attractions.
Time Out review:
Christopher Nolan's Following was one of the most original British films of
the '90s, and this follow-up makes no compromise. It opens with reverse
action: a Polaroid photo fading and sliding into the camera, a corpse
returned to life, a gun pulled from the head, a bullet sucked into the
barrel. The action thereafter plays forwards as usual - with Leonard
Shelby (Pearce) out to track down and take revenge on whoever raped and
killed his wife - save that the brief narrative chunks flash ever
further backwards in time, so that we share Shelby's confused point of
view. He suffers from a rare kind of memory loss whereby, while he
remembers life before the murder, he's been unable since then to recall
anything for more than a few minutes. Hence he's forever forced to
fathom afresh everything he sees and hears. The photos he takes for
future reference and words he tattoos into his flesh help, but life
remains a mysterious, very risky business. This taut, ingenious thriller
displays real interest in how perception and memory shape action,
identity and, of course, filmic storytelling. Moreover, a plot strand
featuring Stephen Tobolowsky
even touches the heart. There's grade A work from all concerned,
especially Pearce, but in the end this is Nolan's film. And he delivers,
with a vengeance.
Geoff Andrew
Here is the trailer.
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