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Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

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Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

Following (1998)
A Film by Christopher Nolan
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Complete Scans | 01:10:01 | 6,90 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1/1.0 @ 448/384 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
Genre: Art-house, Crime, Mystery | Criterion Collection #638

Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell

Before he became a sensation with the twisty revenge story Memento, Christopher Nolan fashioned this low-budget, 16 mm black-and-white neonoir with comparable precision and cunning. Providing irrefutable evidence of Nolan’s directorial bravura, Following is the fragmented tale of an unemployed young writer who trails strangers through London, hoping that they will provide inspiration for his first novel. He gets more than he bargained for when one of his unwitting subjects leads him down a dark criminal path. With gritty aesthetics and a made-on-the-fly vibe (many shots were simply stolen on the streets, unbeknownst to passersby), Following is a mind- bending psychological journey that shows the remarkable beginnings of one of today’s most acclaimed filmmakers.



Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

Following, Christopher Nolan's debut film, concerns a hero that continues to haunt the director's subsequent work. A man (Jeremy Theobald), who dubiously calls himself Billy at one point, is aimless and disconnected from society. Somewhat intelligent but gullible due to boredom and egotism, he wanders the streets, unemployed, alone, barely getting by in a shabby flat that might not meet the standards of your most forgiving and drunken university student. Longing for some sort of meaningful contact with another human being, the man begins to follow pedestrians on the streets at random, which quickly leads him to trouble.

Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

Nolan's films, whether they're concerned with a bizarre form of memory loss, a guilty cop, a dream thief, or Batman, have continued to tell the story of a guilty weirdo who resorts to desperate antisocial actions in an attempt to free himself from his own head and live what some would call a "normal life." Nolan's films are obsessive portraits of obsessives, and the director's increasingly tedious fussiness—most pointedly manifested in the scripts, which have grown more and more reliant on explicit thematic cue cards—implies that these films are personal statements that have, at first glance, been disguised as genre films in an effort to render them accessible to wide audiences.

Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

Following is a remarkably confident first step for Nolan, especially when one takes into consideration some of the limitations that are traditional to first films made with virtually no budget. Nolan shot the film on weekends over a period of a year, which allowed him and the cast to work out the multiple implications of the line readings as the full context of the nonlinear tale is revealed. The film, particularly when compared to unwieldy behemoths like Inception and The Dark Knight Rises, is a refreshingly trim, becoming 70 minutes that don't overstay their welcome or overstate the obvious. We're allowed to intuitively feel our way into Following's world, and by the end, we feel we've only touched the surface of the rot lurking underneath.

Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

As with every other Nolan film, Following has been rigorously constructed on every level, but there's an illusion of improvised spontaneity that's usually not present in the director's work. Objects, which are always imbued with multiple portentous meanings in Nolan's films (think the foreshadowing function of the birdcage in his unfairly unappreciated The Prestige), are cannily used in Following to keep us apprised of the shifting chronologies as well as to assert the nameless man's metaphorical longing for a life that's permanent and tangible, a life he ironically pursues by wandering the streets.

Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

But the objects are never hammered directly into our consciousness, and that can partially be attributed to the run-and-gun shooting method that Nolan had to adapt to make the film. The rough, gritty look of Following, which was shot in black and white on 16mm, quite beautifully suggests an enveloping netherworld that's surprisingly reminiscent of Eraserhead, and these elusive textures enliven Nolan's careful planning.

Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

In the tradition of many English crime films, Following is also fueled by a subtext of class resentment that has also continued to occupy Nolan throughout his career. The man is rejected from society, or perhaps has rejected himself before giving society a chance, and his subsequent misbehavior represents both a rebuff to society as well as a yearning for its approval. The man's first scent of approval ultimately damns him, as it has in a number of Nolan's subsequent films, thus revealing Following to be less a crime thriller than an impressively intense existentialist whimper of defeat.
Following (1998) [The Criterion Collection #638] [Repost]

Special Features:
- New, restored digital transfer, supervised by director Christopher Nolan
- New 5.1 surround mix by rerecording mixer Gary Rizzo
- Audio commentary by Nolan
- New interview with Nolan
- Chronological edit of the film
- Side-by-side comparison of the shooting script with three scenes from the film
- Doodlebug (1997), a three-minute film by Nolan, starring Following’s Jeremy Theobald
- Trailers
- Booklet
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