Countdown to Oppenheimer: Christopher Nolan on Film

Experience Christopher Nolan’s breathtaking films in glorious IMAX 70mm prints as the BFI IMAX counts down to the release of Nolan’s highly-anticipated biographical film Oppenheimer on 21 July 2023.

Travel through time, space, history, dreams and memory to explore the wonderful cinematic world of Christopher Nolan. The series begins with the director’s most recent film Tenet, and works its way backwards before changing direction to run through The Dark Knight trilogy. There’s also a special all-nighter at the cinema, with all three films in The Dark Knight trilogy screened back-to-back.

TENET
Sat 26 Feb at 12pm | Mon 27 Feb at 8:15pm
Join John David Washington on a top-secret, time-twisting mission to prevent World War III.

DUNKIRK
Sun 12 Mar at 11:30am | Thu 16 Mar at 8pm 
Christopher Nolan's spectacular Second World War action epic set around the miraculous Dunkirk evacuation.

INTERSTELLAR
Sun 9 Apr at 11:30am | Mon 10 Apr at 8pm | Sun 23 Apr at 11:30am | Fri 28 Apr at 8:15pm | Sat 29 Apr at 8.30pm | Sun 30 Apr at 11:30am | Mon 1 May at 4.30pm
Follow Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway beyond our galaxy in this futuristic magnum opus.

INCEPTION
Sun 30 Apr at 11:30am | Mon 1 May at 8pm 
Christopher Nolan's mind-bending sci-fi action hit, where not even the dreams inside your dreams are safe.

BATMAN BEGINS
Sun 14 May at 11:30am | Thu 18 May at 8pm 
Christian Bale is the masked vigilante out to clean up the streets of Gotham in the first of Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy

THE DARK KNIGHT
Sun 11 Jun at 11:30am | Thu 15 Jun at 8pm 
The Caped Crusader faces The Joker; Academy Award-winning Heath Ledger's most memorable performance.

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
Sun 25 Jun at 11:30am | Mon 26 Jun at 8pm 
Christian Bale returns for the last part of the trilogy to save Gotham City from the clutches of Tom Hardy's Bane.

THE DARK KNIGHT TRILOGY ALL-NIGHTER
Sun 10 Jun at 10pm 
Experience the rare chance to see all three films of the The Dark Knight Trilogy in IMAX 70mm, in one night, on the largest screen in the UK.