Well, it probably helps that Nolan and Kubrick share a studio – Warner Bros – whose marketing department have been probably the most active in seeding the whispers of equivalency. Nolan – wisely or not – made the link himself when Interstellar emerged in 2014, comparing his film to Kubrick’s 2001. What interests Nolan more is looping back to a sentimentally reinforced present.”But with Dunkirk, Nolan may at last be able to walk the Kubrick walk. Most obviously because as a high-impact, morally scrupulous war film, Dunkirk bears direct comparison to Paths of Glory, Kubrick’s diamond-hard fable of outrage from 1957. Dunkirk is Nolan’s 10th feature film: you can argue that Kubrick got to a major cinematic statement in three.

Source: The Guardian July 19, 2017 13:41 UTC