Something to watch tonight: Wednesday 19 July

Memento (Nolan, 2000) is screening tonight only at the Academy Cinema in Auckland

A geo­graph­ic­ally niche recom­mend­a­tion today and one that shows up some of the flaws in our sup­posedly glor­i­ous all-you-can-eat buf­fet stream­ing world.

To cel­eb­rate the release of Christopher Nolan’s new pic­ture Oppenheimer*, the Academy in Auckland are play­ing Nolan’s first US pro­duc­tion Memento in their retro series tonight at 8.45pm. Tickets are only $5!

This is a rare chance to see a film that has become a pop­u­lar cul­ture touch­stone as well as being an early example of the kind cine­mat­ic Sudoku that has made Nolan so pop­u­lar (and often frus­trat­ing for me).

If you are not in Auckland (or already busy tonight) you are out of luck. Memento is cur­rently unavail­able online (legit­im­ately) in Aotearoa and our two lead­ing home video out­lets only have the DVD ver­sion, and the Blu-ray is out of print.

Maybe Nolan is pre­par­ing some kind of res­tor­a­tion so our access to it might improve.

Further Reading

Part Three of my Whānau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival pre­view has just gone up at RNZ Widescreen. Today I look at No Bears and Sisu.

*My review of Oppenheimer (in IMAX no less) will be in this news­let­ter on Friday.