| | | You're never alone
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Spanish, Subtitled
Wickedly clever, Following is the story of how a young man's obsession with following people leads him unto a dark underworld. Bill, the unlikely hero, is a marginalized but intriguing Everyman who follows strangers at random on the streets of London. When Cobb, a man Bill has been following, catches him in the act, Bill is drawn into Cobb's world of breaking into flats and prying in the personal lives of their victims. In Cobb, Bill finds a strange companion--part mentor, part confessor and part evil twin. With an ingenious structure that involves flash forwards and doubling back, the film tests our knowledge and understanding just as the protagonist is being duped into an elaborate triple-cross. Following heralded Christopher Nolan as a promising new talent whose promise was amply confirmed by Memento.
"...a crackerjack little...crime picture." Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner
"...made with an intricate, almost claustrophobic intensity." Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
"Devilishly clever!" New York Daily News
"Startling! With an eerie intensity..." Janet Maslin, The New York Times
Editor's Note
Bill (Jeremy Theobald) is in trouble. He's a writer who, when bored with pounding the keys on his Remington, goes into the streets to follow people. He becomes so obsessed with following them that he has set up rules--like not following them when he discovers where they live or work. Then, one day, he breaks those rules. And, as he explains to the policeman he is telling all this to, "that was when the trouble started." Bill gets closer and closer to those he is following. He follows one man into a restaurant, and is startled when the man, Cobb (Alex Haw), confronts him. Cobb, too, is interested in people--but he doesn't follow them, his interested is peaked by robbing them. Bill joins Cobb in breaking into an apartment. So begins FOLLOWING, Christopher Nolan's fiendishly clever first film. Nolan was director, screenwriter, co-producer, director of photography, and co-editor, and only able to shoot on Saturdays--the filming took a year. Set in the grimy streets of London, the tightly wound thriller unfolds in a series of overlapping plots, each more intricate than the last, each pulling Bill deeper and deeper into ever worse trouble. FOLLOWING may be short in length and cheaply made; it is also devastating.
| Features | Scene Access | | Theatrical Trailers | | Cast & Crew Bios | | Interactive Menus | | Ability To Restructure The Story Chronologically | | Audio: English 2.0 Dolby Stereo | | Subtitles: English & Spanish | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Video | | Director's Commentary | | Second Angle Showing Director's Shooting Script |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 10/5/2004 |
| Running Time: 71 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1998 | | Catalog ID: 07603 | | UPC: 00043396076037 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Rotterdam International Film Festival (1999) |  | Christopher Nolan, Winner, Tiger Award | |
Sundance Film Festival (1999) | | Christopher Nolan, Winner, Black-And-White Award | | | Christopher Nolen, Nominee, Grand Jury Prize |
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| | Professional Reviews | Los Angeles Times
"...FOLLOWING is a taut, ingenious British neo noir....Nolan relishes the sheer nastiness he keeps stirred up, unabated for 70 minutes..." 06/04/1999 p.F11USA Today
"...[A] tightly constructed drama....Nolan plays tricks with the story's chronology..." 12/14/2001 p.8E Total Film
"...Startlingly confident....Nolan, like a young Kubrick, not only directed but wrote, edited and photographed as well..." 05/01/2000 p.118 |
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