Director Paul Schrader says OPPENHEIMER is the ‘best and most important film of this century’

Director Paul Schrader has incredibly high praise for Christopher Nolan’S Oppenheimer calling it the “best and most important film of this century”.

Schrader wrote films like Taxi driver, wild bull, city ​​HallAND The Last Temptation of Christ and has directed films such as Cat people, American gigolo, First ReformedAND The card counter. He actually started his career as a film critic but has since become a revered director.

He shared his thoughts on Oppenheimer on social media, saying it is “The best and most important film of this century. If you see one movie in theaters this year it should be Oppenheimer. I’m no Nolan groupie, but this one blows doors off their hinges.

Everyone who has seen this movie seems to have loved it. It seems that Nolan has made a true cinematic masterpiece.

The film is the protagonist 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 Emilia Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer, Matt Damon as General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, e Robert Downey Jr. such as Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

The film is also the protagonist Florence Pug 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, Dan DeHaan, DylanArnold, David Krumholtz, Alden EhrenreichAND Matthew Modino.

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 that includes, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analog photography.

Oppenheimer will be released in theaters on July 21, 2023.