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	Memento (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Memento is a film written and directed by Christopher Nolan based on his brother Jonathan's short story "Memento Mori." It stars Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Joe Pantoliano.
		The film consists of an intricately woven pattern of flashbacks, with the beginning of one scene acting as the ending point for the next (the film's first scene moves from Y to Z, the next from X to Y, and so forth).
		Thus the opening (color) scene of the film is the last event in the story, and is shown in reverse motion to clue viewers into the film's scene progression.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Memento (2891 words)

	MEMENTO movie review, In Film Australia
		A great example of the film’s dependency on the title character (and subsequently his unusual sickness) to provide stimulation in the story and a crucial vantage point in the perception of events occurs during a heated conversation at the start of the movie between Shelby (Pearce) and a man named Teddy (Joe Palantonio).
		In ‘Memento,’ the questions are perpetuated and the truth is further shielded when Shelby produces a Polaroid of Teddy with a warning, in his hand writing, scribbled on the back of it.
		As ‘Memento’ revved towards its conclusion, I actually did pick one of the final tangents in the story that merges with others to create an ending that’s likely to lurk in the mind for some time after viewing.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/memento.htm (1229 words)

	Reel Criticism - Guy Pearce in Memento (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I wont say how the film begins because to do that I would give away the ending which while the ending of the film occurs in the first three minutes, it by no means tells you much of anything.
		If "Memento" were to be cut into sequential order and shown from the beginning to end I highly doubt it would have been as interesting of a film.
		The acting in "Memento" is the glue that keeps it together and without it being at this high of a level it may not have worked so well especially with the character of Leonard.
	www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_memento.html (1198 words)

	MEMENTO. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Memento is one of those films that challenge the viewer to return over and over again.
		I saw this film with two others who were scratching their heads in unison throughout the show, instead of letting it roll and enjoying the outcomes.
		All film stills, trailers, video clips and trademarks are the property of their respective owners and may not be reproduced for any reason whatsoever.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /memento.htm (3555 words)

	Memento review
		Thanks to the unpredictable nature of film, the actors are lucky to be able to act in different registers according to the evolution of the story.
		He carries film on his shoulders while Carrie-Anne Moss is also convincing in the various layers of her role.
		Memento is without any doubt one of the most captivating films to arrive this year.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/memento.html (510 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Memento" review (2001)
		The film rewinds further, to earlier the same day when Leonard bumps into Teddy, pulls out of his pocket a stack of Polaroids he uses to keep track of the people and places in his life.
		But as "Memento" continues to turn the clock back, we bear witness to all that Leonard doesn't remember: the events that lead him to this blind act of vengeance -- not all of which are what they seem.
		He makes every single element of the film a clue to the larger picture (even Leonard's designer clothes hint at pieces of the puzzle yet to be filled in) as the story edges back toward the origins of his quest.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/memento.html (1234 words)

	DVD Review - Memento (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Memento" is a film about a man who must rely on his senses in any given situation, and the audio and video presentation here really help to immerse the viewer into that world.
		Yes, there would be a moment of shock at the ending (which is actually the beginning of the film), but it would not compare to the conclusion that the film reaches in its present form.
		"Memento" is one of the most original and gripping thrillers ever made, and it is easily the best film of the year thus far.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/memento.shtml (1333 words)

	BBC - Films - interview - Christopher Nolan
		"Memento" is his next film, based on a story by his brother Jonathan.
		Film makers should be able to experiment with narrative without alienating the audience and without creating something that's impenetrable.
		Even though you aren't going to get the answers to all of the questions in the film and it is a kind of unsettling film in lots of ways, if you watch it a couple of times it's pretty much all in there.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/10/16/christopher_nolan_i_interview.shtml (346 words)

	INTERVIEW: Mindgames; Christopher Nolan Remembers "Memento"
		To tell the truth, the structure with "Memento" is weirdly less self-conscious than it was with "Following." In "Following," the relationship between the subject matter and the narrative divides.
		Film, it seems to me, is this fantastic medium for drawing the audience into somebody else's point of view.
		The frame is very precise and "Memento" is the same way in a different format and I feel like what we did with "Following" is we tried to push the filmmaking to as high a technical standard as we could with what we had, which was basically nothing.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Nolan_Christoph_010316.html (2041 words)

	12gauge.com 2002 - Film Review - Memento
		Memento opens with this stunningly cool piece of rewind, and keeps on running as a narrative and cinematic puzzle for the next two hours.
		In Memento he once again shows a fascination with storytelling tropes and this 'abstraction' of the medium itself, using flashbacks, cutting up sequences, beginning them mid-pulse and repeating them again from another angle, or slowly letting them change meaning as we retreat from their apparent climax.
		Pearce stalks this film with a lost dynamism, all a-sweat in a pale blue suit as he careens around the strip malls, motels and warehouses of Burbank, a slice of drive-by America sinking slowly into the summer concrete.
	www.12gauge.com /film_2001_memento.html (1274 words)

	MEMENTO - DVD
		The film cleverly sets up a classic genre scenario and then rejects it, taking its protagonist and revealing him to be a bit player deluded into thinking he's the hero.
		Watching Leonard, we are led to believe that the film is about his tragedy: as he assures everyone that he remembers everything up until the incident that destroyed his mind, it appears as though the film is a lament for a pre-lapsarian world in which moral--i.e.
		This led me to assume that the remainder of the film would wallow in the tragic poignancy of a once-proud man robbed of the things that made him a credit to the patriarchy, and not only was this ideologically suspect, it was boring as hell.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/memento.htm (1263 words)

	Review: Memento (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Memento is very much concerned with all aspects of memory, especially the manipulation of it, and this endlessly fascinating, wonderfully open-ended motion picture will be remembered by many who see it as one of the best films of the year.
		Memento stars Austalian actor Guy Pearce (one of the crossdressers in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and the "straight" guy L.A. Confidential) as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator and crime victim who is trying to find the man who raped and murdered his wife (Jorja Fox).
		For those who love films and don't mind endings that don't wrap everything into a tidy package, Memento is not to be missed, even if you have to make a long trip to reach a theater showing it.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/m/memento.html (1065 words)

	LiP \| Film Review \| Memento
		Film treatment of villainy as great as Leonard's is usually reserved for documentaries, since the lives of historically distinguished war criminals—like Cambodia's Pol Pot, Chile's Augusto Pinochet, or Iraq's Saddam Hussein—are rarely seen as fit material for narrative features.
		Memento exposes not merely the moral depravity of a single individual (or of the petty criminals who befriend him for their own sordid purposes), but the defining pathology of contemporary American elite culture at large.
		In Memento, considerable subtlety and elaborate metaphor operate side-by-side to expose and indict the methods of memory control and historical falsification by which even major American war criminals (like Henry Kissinger and Colin Powell) are permitted to maintain positions of prestige and power in our depraved political culture.
	www.lipmagazine.org /articles/revicontent_139.shtml (2527 words)

	Memento At DVDwolf.com
		There is a reason this little 'indie' film is one of the most talked about films of the year.
		Christopher Nolan's first feature length film has blown away many a viewer with this film and may do so again with next year's release Insomnia, a re-make of the 1997 foreign film of the same name.
		With Memento now available on VHS and DVD it is sure to have a large word of mouth following and fans will be waiting to see if Director Christopher Nolan can repeat his magic for his 'second' film.
	www.dvdwolf.com /Reviews/M/Memento.htm (860 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Memento Movie Review
		Memento, a sly piece of film noir with a fabulous premise and the technical chops to back it up, has come to save us from the mid-March doldrums.
		But as the film continues, and his debilitating condition erases what he has learned, we find that such foundations have a nasty habit of sliding out from under him.
		Memento arrives in theaters less than a month after The Caveman's Valentine, another mystery involving a debilitated detective.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /memento.html (667 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Everything you wanted to know about "Memento"
		The first of the film's cosmic jokes is revealed in the final color scene (which is of course the first scene chronologically of the color story).
		It's one of "Memento's" delicious ironies that the avenging murder we've already seen Leonard accomplish is different from the one Teddy's talking about, but the net effect is the same: to give us a sudden and monstrous realization of Leonard's sanguinary condition.
		In the film's final sequence -- the bravura 22/A -- as Leonard drives around in a frenzy of mental activity, we see a rushed glimpse of him relaxing in bed with his wife -- with the legend "I'VE DONE IT" tattooed on his breast.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/feature/2001/06/28/memento_analysis/print.html (4601 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Everything you wanted to know about "Memento"
		More to the point, one film represents a triumph of writing, directing and performance, while the other is a triumph of money, hype and...
		And there's no question that this is a film that encourages repeat business: That is, its puzzles are so intriguing and so impenetrable at first viewing that filmgoers are almost forced to go back for a second look if they want to figure out just what the hell was going on.
		Still, given the way the film business works, critics usually have only one chance to see the film and have to dash out a review before deadline, so even many of the positive reviews couldn't begin to chart the film's depths.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/feature/2001/06/28/memento_analysis (777 words)

	Memento (2001): Guy Pierce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Stephen Tobolowsky - PopMatters Film Review
		Memento offers versions of this instant again and again, situating you alongside Leonard, who can't ever know, for sure, what any given instant means for him.
		Memento's genius lies in just such solicitations to recognize and sympathize with Leonard, to think that maybe his dire designs have a rationale.
		By the time he says, at film's end (or is it the beginning?), that he is "no different" from you, it's more than a little chilling to recognize even the bit of truth he's speaking.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/memento.shtml (1390 words)

	LIGHT VIEWS FILM REVIEW: MEMENTO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The sophomore effort of writer- director Christopher Nolan, "Memento" is the sort of film that grabs you by the throat and goes for the jugular.
		"Memento" is about manipulation and perception, all brilliantly tweaked by Nolan, who creates a slice of film noir that instantly draws you into it's web of deceit.
		Then as the film begins to backtrack, we begin to suspect that not all is right.
	www.lightviews.com /memento.htm (941 words)

	Memento: Film Review di Guido Mezzabotta
		As the film progresses, we are not sure who these people who inhabit his daily life really are.
		Perhaps the film is not revealing itself backwards.
		"Memento" was shot in Burbank, California with a brief shooting schedule of a few weeks.
	members.optusnet.com.au /thesquiz/memento.htm (691 words)

	Top Box Office Movies - Memento
		This is the greatness that is 'Memento' - a film that tackles the inner demons of a man who is seemingly trying so hard to please himself at the expense of others.
		As mentioned before, this film will be open to debates and discussions for viewings to come concerning its' resolution (or lack thereof); yet keep one point in mind.
		You can tell this film is so great simply due to the level of excitement and discussion it arises within every avid filmgoer.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2001/memento.htm (738 words)

	Memento
		This is actually the second film for 30-year-old British born, Los Angeles resident, writer/director Christopher Nolan.
		His first film, Following (1998), is a 70 minute, tiny budgeted fl and white effort shot and shown in 16 mm.
		I recently read that the film might be re-edited to tell the story chronologically on a DVD version after the theatrical runs are completed.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/Memento/Memento.html (1097 words)

	BBC - Films - review - Memento (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The structure of Christopher Nolan's fascinatingly original second film is determinedly non-linear.
		It is edited like a random pile of mosaic tiles, but when the last one has snaps into place, a surprise sets the whole intrigue in motion again.
		A legendary film that is original and masterfully made.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2000/10/16/memento_2000_review.shtml (340 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review MEMENTO movie by Christopher Nolan with Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		"Memento," the fiercely imaginative, reverse-chronological story of a man with a mission but no short-term memory, is a stunning modern film noir that plays havoc with the senses.
		"Memento," a crisp, stylish film noir that plays havoc with the senses (if anything, it's more a physiological than a psychological thriller), is written and directed by Christopher Nolan (this is only his second feature).
		In Memento, this rarely attempted cinematic technique seems less like a plot device and more an integral part of the film's framework, working superbly in context given the medical condition of its lead — Leonard is always backtracking, checking his notes, trying to remember things; it's the perfect combination of substance and style.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2001/memento.php3 (760 words)

	Memento
		Memento is one of the most original ideas in recent memory, and the resulting film is complex and engrossing.
		For this, they must wait until the film moves back to the previous scene.
		If any film demands multiple viewings to fully understand, this is certainly it.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/memento.html (579 words)

	CTheory.net
		Memory is the camera, the film, the sound, the projector and the screen.
		This embodies a visible language all its own, for the faces and places recorded on film are different from their original source.
		Memento's storytelling marked by abrupt transitions has the quality of a montage, a rapid succession of scenes and images weaved together.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=321 (1119 words)

	Memento : film review
		Any film that begins its story at the end and proceeds to tell it backwards is just asking for trouble.
		Memento, which played in European cinemas late last year (and is due on home video in the UK in April), could not have arrived at American cinemas at a more perfect time.
		In a desert of incredibly moronic movies aimed at the under 25 set - both in age and IQ - this intelligent, fun thriller for adults is a must see at least once, if not twice.
	www.musicomh.com /films/memento.htm (504 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Memento"
		How a film can just take a hold of your mind, massage it a little here, toss you a little clue there, show you something here, and allow you the opportunity to take part in a real-life mystery of the mind.
		I don't think I've ever seen a film which gives the viewer a greater understanding of what it's like to be in the skin of the film's lead character.
		Perhaps there will be films to equal it or surpass it for sheer entertainment, but it will always be among the group of my favorite entertaining films.
	www.joblo.com /memento.htm (1517 words)

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