Christopher Nolan: 8-Film Collection

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Eight-disc set includes: Batman Begins (2005)Christopher Nolan's reinvention of the Batman saga follows Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), enraged by parents' murder, to Tibet, where he trains with a ninja clan led by the mysterious Ra's Al Ghul. Returning to Gotham, Wayne takes on the mantle of the Dark Knight and, with the help of stalwart butler Alfred (Michael Caine) and honest cop Sgt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), wages war on the city's lot of criminals. With Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Morgan Freeman, and Cillian Murphy. 140 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 The Prestige (2006)The increasingly bitter rivalry between two early-20th-century stage magicians (Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman), an obsession fueled by a tragedy in the men's shared past, leads to a deadly quest for success... and vengeance. Nothing is as it seems in "Memento" director Christopher Nolan's dazzlingly suspenseful, time-twisting drama. Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, and David Bowie as scientist Nikolas Tesla also star. 130 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 The Dark Knight (2008)With Gotham City held in the grip of organized crime, Batman (Christian Bale), Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman), and D.A. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) vow to clean up the streets. But their plan doesn't allow for the Joker (Best Supporting Actor Oscar-winner Heath Ledger), a psychotic, clown-faced criminal whose unbridled chaos results in Dent's transformation into the disfigured, dual-minded Two-Face. Christopher Nolan's blockbuster follow-up also stars Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Morgan Freeman. 153 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 Inception (2010)Director Christopher Nolan's mindbending sci-fi thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a corporate spy whose ability to gain information from peoples' subconscious by infiltrating their dreams has made him a fugitive from the law. But he gets a chance to wipe his criminal record clean when he's hired by a wealthy businessman to sabotage a rival's company by implanting an idea instead of stealing one, an act believed to be impossible. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Cillian Murphy, and Michael Caine also star. 148 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 The Dark Knight Rises (2012)Eight years after Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) hung up his cape and cowl, Gotham City's crime rate is at an all-time low. That is, until a powerful terrorist leader called Bane (Tom Hardy) arrives to hold the entire city hostage. Now, it's up to Batman, Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman), young cop John Blake (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), and the sleek and sexy Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) to bring Bane down. Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman also star in the final chapter in Christopher Nolan's successful saga. 165 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 Interstellar (2014)In the near future, with the Earth near environmental collapse, scientists discover a tear in the fabric of space. Veteran astronaut Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is tasked with leading an expedition into the wormhole, in hopes of finding a new habitat for mankind-and at the risk of never reuniting with his kids. Christopher Nolan's expansive yet humanistic sci-fi opus co-stars Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck, John Lithgow, and Ellen Burstyn. 168 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 Dunkirk (2017)In the late spring of 1940, in the wake of the Battle of France, German forces had pushed nearly 400,000 Allied troops back to the Channel. The harrowing week that followed-as hundreds of British civilians, as well as military vessels, made their way to Dunkirk's shores in the prayer of extracting the trapped soldiers, while the RAF ran interference-is remarkably chronicled in Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning combat opus. Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Fionn Whitehead, Aneurin Barnard, Harry Styles star. 106 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 zz Tenet (2020)After a Ukrainian mission gone sideways, a CIA operative known as "The Protagonist" (John David Washington) finds himself in the hire of Tenet, a shadowy agency boasting technology that can warp the flow of time. His mission is to thwart Andrei Sator (Kenneth Branagh), a Russian oligarch with access to the same science-and an endgame of destruction. Christopher Nolan's challenging fantasy-actioner also stars Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Michael Caine. 150 min. C/Rtg: PG-13 Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Region Free