With “Oppenheimer” leading the Oscar race with 13 nominations, Christopher Nolan is the big favorite to win the golden statuette for Best Director. The film cost 100 million dollars, a “modest” amount when compared to the 205 for “Tenet “, the previous film, but still a very large investment for a film partially shot in black and white about the creator of the atomic bomb. Making big “blockbusters” with access to the great resources of Hollywood that don't have superheroes is a power within the reach of very few. Therefore, it is not foreseeable a return to independent cinema for “Memento” (2000) and even ” Insomnia” (2002) and “The Third Step” (2006), already produced within major studios with relatively modest budgets. “I feel attracted to working on a large scale because I know how fragile the opportunity to mobilize these resources is. There are so many filmmakers out there in the world who would give anything to have the resources I have, and I feel like I have a responsibility to use them in the most productive and interesting way,” the filmmaker recently told Time magazine. much more modest resources that he recently saw among his favorites: “Aftersun” is a “beautiful film” and “Past Lives”, this one nominated for the Oscar for Best Film, is “subtle in a beautiful way”. takes place on March 10th.