Oscar-winning director Christopher Nolan is getting a career retrospective this summer from the Toronto Film Festival.
TIFF will have 12 Nolan features, from Oppenheimer and Dunkirk to Tenet and Interstellar, fill its Lightbox theaters in July and August. Nolan, who brought his directorial debut Following to Toronto in 1998 before it became a film festival circuit hit, will see the Christopher Nolan: Grand Designs program bookended with Tenet on July 9 and Dunkirk screen in 70mm on August 20.
Oppenheimer, which took over Toronto cinema screens in 2023 along with Barbie, will screen at TIFF on July 18, with additional dates for The Right Stuff, The Prestige, Memento, Inception and Insomnia. Nolan’s Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises will also get play in Toronto.
The career film showcase in Toronto coincides with Nolan’s latest movie, The Odyssey, his anticipated follow-up to Oppenheimer, hitting theaters on July 17. The Odyssey is an adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic, with Matt Damon playing the Greek king of Ithaca on a long and perilous journey home after the Trojan War as he attempts to reunite with his wife, Penelope. The 10-year journey is filled with interruptions and influence from the gods (not to mention a few cyclopes), as back home Penelope and Odysseus’s son, Telemachus, must contend with aggressive suitors who have sights set on the throne.
The star-studded cast also features Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Charlize Theron, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie, Mia Goth, Elliot Page, Samantha Morton, Ryan Hurst and Travis Scott. The Odyssey is set for a July 17 theatrical release.
