Sentence examples for from memento from inspiring English sources

"We wanted to draw from everything from Memento and The Prestige to The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception.

The film was conjured by the British director Christopher Nolan, whose pedigree derives from "Memento" and "The Prestige".

The recent comments by Wally Pfister Christopher Nolan's director of photography from "Memento" through the Batman trilogy— shouldn't be ascribed to sheer jealousy over the fact that "The Avengers" has taken in one and one-half billion dollars at the box office while "The Dark Knight Rises" got stuck just over a billion.

Starring Ashton Kutcher, the shaggy-haired young actor best known for "Dude, Where's My Car?" and for dating Demi Moore, "Butterfly" is a supposed thriller that mines the memory loss theme that has been turning up with striking regularity in American movies, from "Memento" to "Paycheck".

Pfister was the cinematographer for all of Nolan's films from Memento to The Dark Knight Rises.

Can America afford to have the guy from Memento running the country?

Birthday, graduation, wedding and prom photos were transformed from mementos of happy occasions into missing-persons documents; toothbrushes, hairbrushes, T-shirts into DNA samples; a tattoo, an earring, a favorite nail polish color into a means of corpse identification.

A mask, as if from a memento mori parade in Venice, was another edgy addition.

"INCEPTION", Christopher Nolan's follow-up to his 2008 film, "The Dark Knight", combines big-money action with the uncompromising smarts of his modestly budgeted brain-twister from eight years earlier, "Memento".

"It was like riding a bike into a sand pit at full speed," said Jonathan Nolan, the director's brother, who wrote the short story from which "Memento" was adapted.

Outside is an orchard with apple trees grafted with specimens from Monticello, a memento of sorts from his 1997 film on Thomas Jefferson.