The BFI celebrates 'contemporary Hollywood's most persuasively inventive storyteller'.Rediscover some of his classics.

Memento proves that Nolan doesn't need massive budgets or Hollywood A-listers to make a fantastic movie.

The film that won Nolan widespread acclaim, this astonishingly inventive variation on traditional noir tropes has a man (Guy Pearce) determined to fathom the identity of – and then take revenge on – his wife’s killer. Trouble is, since her death his memory’s so shot he can barely retain any information – a traumatic, very vulnerable condition mirrored in the film’s chronological structure, brief fragments of his consciousness waywardly working backwards in time. Tense, edgy, sometimes touching, this was a formidable achievement.

1st July: 6.20pm

6th July: 8.45pm

Tickets will be on sale from 19th June