Interstellar Review

Interstellar

Release Date: November 6th 2014 - Australia

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures (presents)
Warner Bros. Pictures (presents)
Legendary Pictures (in association with)
Lynda Obst Productions
Syncopy

Distribution
Roadshow Films

Genre: Sci-Fi

Rating: M

Runtime: 169 minutes

Budget: $165,000,000

Box Office Gross: $733,202,212 (Worldwide)

Plot Summary

In the future of Earth,

a global crop blight and

a second Dust Bowl will

slowly render the planet

uninhabitable. Professor

Brand, a brilliant NASA

physicist, is working on

a plan to save the human

race by transporting the

population of the Earth

to a new home through a

wormhole. But first, to find

out which of the three

planets could be humanity's

new home, Brand must

send former NASA pilot

Cooper and a team of

explorers through the

wormhole and across the

galaxy.

Cast

Matthew McConaughey -
Cooper

Anne Hathaway - Dr. Amelia Brand

Mackenzie Foy - Murph (10 years)
Jessica Chastain - Murph
Bill Irwin - TARS (Voice)
Ellen Burstyn - Murph (older)
Michael Caine - Prof. Brand
David Gyasi - Romilly
Wes Bentley - Doyle
Andrew Borba - Smith
William Devane - Williams

Josh Stewart - CASE (Voice)
John Lithgow - Donald
Timothee Chalamet - Tom (15 years)
Casey Affleck - Tom
Leah Cairns - Lois

Liam Dickinson - Coop

Topher Grace - Getty

Matt Damon - Dr. Mann

David Oyelowo - School Principal

Collette Wolf - Ms. Hanley

Francis X. McCarthy - Boots

Flora Nolan - Girl on Truck

Griffin Fraser - Boy on Truck

Jeff Hephner - Doctor

Lena Georgas - Nurse Practitioner

Elyes Gabel - Administrator

Brooke Smith - Nurse

Russ Fega - Crew Chief

Crew

Writer/Producer/Director - Christopher Nolan

Writer - Jonathan Nolan

Script Supervisor - Steve Gehrke

Executive Producers - Jordan Goldberg,

Jake Myers, Kip Thorne and Thomas Tull

Producers - Emma Thomas and Lynda Obst

Casting Director - John Papsidera

IMAX Consultant - David Keighley

Production Designer - Nathan Crowley

Concept Artists - Steve Burg,

Romek Delimata and Nathaniel West

Supervising Art Director - Dean Wolcott

Art Directors - Joshua Lusby and

Eric David Sundahl

Greens Supervisor: Alberta - Dan Ondrejko
Set Decorator - Gary Fettis

Property Master - Ritchie Kremer

Costume Designer - Mary Zophres

Director of Photography - Hoyte van Hoytema

Aerial Director of Photography - Hans Bjerno

Camera Operator - P. Scott Sakamoto

Pilots - Craig Hosking and David Paris

Unit Production Manager - Daniel M. Stillman

Unit Production Manager: Alberta - Casey Grant

First Assistant Director - Nico Otero

Stunt Coordinator - George Cottle
Special Effects Supervisor - Scott R. Fisher

Visual Effects Supervisor - Paul J. Franklin
Visual Effects Supervisor: Double Negative -
Andrew Lockley

Visual Effects Supervisor: New Deal Studios -

Ian Hunter

Visual Effects Producer - Kevin Elam

Visual Effects Director of Photography:

New Deal Studios - Tim Angulo

Compositing Sequence Supervisors: Double

Negative - Graham Page, Isaac Layish,

Raphael Hamm, Sebastian von Overheidt

and Tristan Myles

CG Sequence Supervisors: Double Negative -

Bruno Baron, Chantelle Williams,

Fabio Zangla, Seth Dubieniec and

Tom Bracht
Editor - Lee Smith

Associate Editor - John Lee

Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor -

Richard King

Additional Sound Design - Ken J. Johnson

and Aaron Glascock

Production Sound Mixer - Mark Weingarten

Sound Effects Recording Mixers - John P. Fasal

and Eric Potter

Re-Recording Mixers - Gary A. Rizzo

and Gregg Landaker

Additional Re-Recording Mixer - Michael Babcock

Foley Artists - John Roesch and Alyson Dee Moore

Music - Hans Zimmer

Sequence Programmers - Andrew Kawczynski

and Steve Mazzaro

Organ Soloist - Roger Sayer

Supervising Music Editor - Alex Gibson

Score Recordist and Mixer - Alan Meyerson

Score Recordist - Geoff Foster


Awards

2015 Academy Awards
Best Visual Effects - Paul J. Franklin,

Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott R. Fisher (Won)
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Best Original Score - Hans Zimmer (Nominated)
Best Sound Mixing - Gary Rizzo, Gregg Landaker
and Mark Weingarten (Nominated)
Best Sound Editing - Richard King (Nominated)
Best Production Design - Nathan Crowley and
Gary Fettis (Nominated)

Review

In 2014, I felt anxious when Chris Nolan's latest directional effort, INTERSTELLAR, met its eventual release in cinemas - I had long awaited the moment to come. Unfortunately, I wasn't around to see the film when it was released. So, instead, I waited for it to be available on Blu-Ray and DVD. It was not very reassuring because I didn't get to see it in theatres and, as it turns out, this movie is for the cinema. I assumed this deep space epic was the equivalent of 2001: A Space Odyssey. INTERSTELLAR would follow the same pattern in the director's films like The Dark Knight series, Inception and many others.

After a year of watching the movie, I found INTERSTELLAR excellent in meeting my expectations. It would have been a fatal catastrophic blow to Chris Nolan's filmmaking career if this wasn't the case. Unlike 2001, INTERSTELLAR isn't different from reality in its portrayal of space exploration, whereas the former is full of trippier images. Today's audiences will appreciate its developed plot and operatic drama compared to the more visualised experience of Stanley Kubrick's original sensation. I liked the fascinating plot concept of a wormhole, which is intriguing given the significant scientific themes implanted in INTERSTELLAR.

In specific ways, the acting is of a professional standard, especially Matthew McConaughey, for portraying the character. The other actors, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine and Jessica Chastain, displayed exceptional talent when paired with McConaughey's protagonist. I didn't realise that Matt Damon was in the supporting cast, and he's been in a few roles in sci-fi movies such as Elysium and the animation Titan A.E. Finally, the last feature to compliment the film is Hans Zimmer's music score. He has written brilliant compositions for INTERSTELLAR. Surprisingly, this is his latest best work since Inception.

Nearly surpassing the depth of his previous directional efforts, Nolan is a visionary ahead of his time and has the destiny to be the next Spielberg. Some viewers may consider INTERSTELLAR a divisive movie due to its questionable ending, but this does not change how I feel about it.

Star rating: (9/10) Excellent Movie

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