Acclaimed Christopher Nolan film celebrating its 25th anniversary is on TV tonight

The director has delivered a number of the biggest film’s of the 21st century

The 2000 film knocked off a domino effect that led to Christopher Nolan winning Best Director for Oppenheimer (Image: Newmarket)

A thrilling film from English Oscar winner Christopher with a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score is airing on TV tonight for free across the UK, 25 years after it was released

Nolan is one of the UK’s most successful directors of recent years, winning Best Picture and Best Director last year at the 96th Academy Awards for Oppenehimer.

Famously released on the same day as Barbie in an event branded Barbenheimer, the Cillian Murphy film about the man who created the atomic bomb saw Nolan finally recognised at the Oscars after being nominated five times in the past.

Outside of Oppenheimer, Nolan is known for delivering the iconic Dark Knight Trilogy, mind-bending Inception, thundering war film Dunkirk and sci-fi epic Interstellar.

While all of his fans have a personal favourite film of his, Nolan made a name for himself through his 2000 neo-noir psychological thriller Memento.

Released just two years after his debut indie-film Following hit screens, made for just $6000, Memento tells the story of a man suffering from anterograde amnesia, leaving him with short-term memory loss and unable to make new memories.

While Christopher Nolan made a film before Memento, it was the 2000 thriller that made him a star(Image: Newmarket)

Starring The Brutalist’s Guy Pearse and based on a short-film by Nolan’s brother Jonathan, Memento’s protagonist Leonard uses an elaborate system of photographs, handwritten notes and tattoos to try find out who killed his wife.

Outside of Pearse, who rose to fame on Australian soap Neighbours, the film marked a reunion for Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano, who appeared in The Matrix together in 1990.

Never one to make a conventional film, Nolan’s Memento uses a non-linear narrative, with the movie cutting between the past and the present at any given moment in a way where the viewer is as confused as Leonard.

Boasting a shocking conclusion where all of the pieces handed to you throughout the film finally makes sense, Memento has gained a strong cult status over the years.

Earning $40 million over its $9 million budget, the film was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing Oscars, losing in both categories.

Previously speaking to IndieWire about how he brought Memento to life, Nolan said: “You actually find yourself as a filmmaker in the position of the protagonist that has to trust these notes he’s written himself. It sounds a bit trite, but it’s really true. I watch the screen and think, okay I read the script three years ago and it seemed like a good idea at the time.

“But it’s like you really are, at a certain point, you’re so immersed in the material. You’re just having to trust yourself. You have so many points along the way where the film stops being real and you just have to say: this is what I’m making, this is what I’m doing and switch that half of your brain off and absolutely trust your initial instincts.”

With the world waiting to see what Nolan does with his next feature The Odyssey, starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, and Charlize Theron, now is the perfect time to go back to the beginning of his career.

Memento airs on Film 4 and channel4.com on Thursday, March 13, at 11pm.

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