Filmmaker Paul Schrader Says OPPENHEIMER is The "Best, Most Important Film of This Century"
Filmmaker Paul Schrader has incredibly high praise for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer calling it the “best, most important film of this century.”
Schrader has written films like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, City Hall, and The Last Temptation of Christ and directed movies like Cat People, American Gigolo, First Reformed, and The Card Counter. He actually started his career as a film critic but has since become a revered filmmaker.
He shared his thoughts on Oppenheimer on social media, saying it’s “The best, most important film of this century. If you see one film in cinemas this year it should be Oppenheimer. I’m not a Nolan groupie but this one blows the doors off the hinges.”
Everyone that has seen this movie seems to have absolutely loved it. It seems like Nolan has made a true cinematic masterpiece.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II. He is joined by Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
The movie also stars Florence Pugh as psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber, Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence, along with Rami Malek, Kenneth Branagh, Dane DeHaan, Dylan Arnold, David Krumholtz, Alden Ehrenreich, and Matthew Modine.
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. Oppenheimer is filmed in a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography including, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analogue photography.
Oppenheimer opens in theaters on July 21, 2023.