Conflagration, Catastrophe and Christopher Nolan (work in progress)

Conflagration, Catastrophe and Christopher Nolan

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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30 June

Conflagration, Catastrophe and Christopher Nolan (work in progress)

Prescient conflagrations and the possibility of Earth-shattering catastrophe were foregrounded preoccupations of TENET (2020), so it seems likely that Christopher Nolan's preserved them in #Oppenheimer... pic.twitter.com/9h2LA7ElWo

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 30, 2023

Having soon recognized that Nolan's (ahem !) central conceit is part of, well, revolving his usual interest in cause and effect, the impetus to consider 'but for' (or 'what if') and how guilt arises, the idea of constructing a square of one's own became inviting.#UCFF offers... pic.twitter.com/Ek8f3CWoCQ

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 1, 2023

² From Wiki :

The word AREPO is a 'hapax legomenon' (i.e. it appears nowhere else in Latin literature).

Some academics believe it is likely a proper name or potentially a theophoric name, that was adapted from a non-Latin word or was invented specifically for the Sator square.

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 1, 2023

All 'the best' word-squares, so #UCFF is told, rely on using trade-names and the like... pic.twitter.com/rSR4ffv4bA

— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 26, 2023

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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)