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Tyler Haas
CINEMA TYLER IS BACK!
After a summer full of a lot of wonderful travel, making art, and generally not being inside watching films (it almost killed me), I'm dusting the cobwebs out of the ol' popcorn bucket and getting back to screenings.
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The theme for the next couple weeks is the films of Christopher Nolan. I meant to do this back in July to coincide with the release of The Odyssey, which I have still not seen (this makes me both a bad film buff and a bad classical scholar). Fortunately, they movie is still hanging around in theaters, so come (re)watch it with me next weekend! Also on the slate are some of Nolan's smaller-scale films, like Momento and Insomnia, that I've never gotten around to before. Finally, we'll be doing a very special screening of Nolan's mind-bending magician-forward period sci-fi drama The Prestige—at a date and time TBD—as requested by Cinema Tyler regular Drew. Lots to look forward to!
Oh also we're going to see the movie where the Coyote from Looney Tunes sues the Acme Corporation tomorrow before it leaves theaters.
- Tue, Sep 8 @ 5:00 @ Apple Cinemas Van Ness – Coyote vs. Acme (2026) – Dave Green
Warner Bros literally didn't want you to see this movie. They made a fun, inventive premise for a film and David Zaslav tried to bury that shit where no one would ever find it. Come stick it to the man by watching a cartoon Coyote sue an evil corporation. It's called praxis.
- Thu, Sept 10 @ 6:30 – Momento (2000) – Christopher Nolan
Throughout his filmography, Nolan has repeatedly returned to the themes of time, memory, and the metatextual role of editing in storytelling. So it's fitting that his career breakout is a groundbreaking work of nonlinear narrative—a film told out of order in brief vignettes. I'm convinced that all of Nolan's movies are self-referentially about filmmaking and this one has always struck me as the most about filmmaking.
- Sun, Sept 13 @ 4:30 @ AMC Kabuki – The Odyssey (2026) – Christopher Nolan
Do you know how many people I've had to disappoint over the last two months by telling them that I—who holds two degrees in Classical Greek Archaeology and whose whole thing is seeing all the movies—haven't seen The Odyssey?! It's a lot. But I'm finally going to see it in glorious 70mm. Come along with me and you can hear me very obnoxiously talk about how I've read it in the original Ancient Greek and once excavated at the Palace of Nestor.
- Mon, Sept 14 @ 7:00 – Insomnia (2002) – Christopher Nolan
Did you know Robin Williams was in a Christopher Nolan movie? Did you know he stars opposite Al Pacino (who I'm sure gives a very normal and calm performance) in a neo-noir thriller about a murder in rural Alaska and a cop who can't sleep because the sun never sets? I watched this with my parents when it first came out and remember none of it, so I'm excited to rewatch.
- TBD – The Prestige (Drew's Pick) (2006) – Christopher Nolan
Drew won first prize in the ballot prediction game at this past year's Oscars. His reward was picking a film to screen and boy did he pick a good one. This is a damn good genre bending story about the rivalry between two stage magicians (Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman) that drives them to extremes and eventually breaks the laws of physics. But going beyond the slick presentation and memorable twists, I think Nolan is saying something really interesting about filmmakers as illusionists and maybe his own psychotic drive for realism. Also, David Bowie plays Nikola Tesla in one of my favorite performances of all time.
- Mon, Sept 21 @ 7:30 @ The Balboa Theater – Resident Evil (2026) – Zach Cregger
Kicking off spooky season with this fresh reimagining of long running zombie horror video game series from the director of last year's Weapons. I loved Weapons and have fond memories of watching my brother play the original games on Playstation so I'm looking forward to this.