Happy Birthday to Christopher Nolan! 5 best Nolan films?

I've always liked him but in the last couple of years I started to really fucking love the guy.

1. Dunkirk
2. Tenet
3. Inception
4. The Dark Knight
5. Memento

As for what I'd like to see him do next? Well, the correct answer is whatever he's got cooking up there in that head of his. But if I were to fantasize about things, I'd love him to finally do his Howard Hughes movie. Unless it's very similar to The Aviator or something, I think enough time has passed since Scorsese's take on him for somebody else to make that movie (nobody cared about Beatty's flick so I'm not even taking it into consideration). I'd really love Nolan to take a big dive into a character-based picture with old Hollywood providing a good epic backdrop. He's said that he loves that script of his so I hope that he gets to make it one day.

Memento.
Interstellar.
Dunkirk.
The Dark Knight Rises.
The Prestige.

That's a great idea that didn't even cross my mind.   What actress would you choose as the lead in a Nolan film?

I'd love to see Eva Green be in a Nolan film at some point.  She is way too talented & beautiful to be wasting her time with crap like 300: Rise of an Empire or Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.    She can be so sultry and mysterious which is why I think she'd be perfect for a role in a Nolan film (whether it be lead or supporting of course). 

1. Memento
2. The Prestige
3. Inception
4. Insomnia
5. Batman Begins

That's a cool choice (it's also a shame she paired with Burton for some of his most forgettable recent titles). Would love if he worked with Debicki again, and some other pairings I'd be interested in are Sarah Snook, Ruth Negga, Imogen Poots, Olivia Cooke, or Riley Keough.

Interstellar
The Prestige
Memento
Inception
Tenet

Happy Birthday to one of the great filmmakers working today!

1. Memento
2. The Dark Knight
3. Inception
4. Dunkirk
5. Tenet

I would like to see him tackle something that doesn't have to deal with the concept of time. We get it..time is relative. Perhaps something smaller in scope.

The Dark Knight
Inception
Memento
The Prestige
The Dark Knight Rises

I'm definitely down with the horror mentions. Would also love to see him finally tackle his Howard Hughes script.

1. Memento - 10/10
2. The Dark Knight - 10/10
3. Dunkirk - 9/10
4. Following - 9/10
5. Interstellar - 8.5/10

Tenet is my least favorite thing he's done so far, but I still rate it a 7.5 and think it's a lot of fun to obsess over as a kind of headspinning lark within his filmography. Everything else gets at least an 8 from me.

For several years now, a female-led horror film has been #1 on my wishlist for things I'd like to see him direct.... like a character slowly losing their mind and unable to distinguish fantasy from reality (Inception was originally conceived as a horror film I think). Something along the lines of Polanski's Repulsion or Bergman's Hour of the Wolf but on a bigger canvas, maybe told through memories/flashbacks and a crazy narrative structure like Last Year at Marienbad (time and space being fluid, with no certainty over what is happening to the character(s), what they are remembering or imagining, etc.). So something not super accessible to general audiences lol, but not really a stretch given that Tenet is probably his least accessible movie yet, I think it would be kind of interesting to see Nolan go more and more experimental.

But lately I've been thinking how now would be a great opportunity to make his Howard Hughes film. With Covid restrictions, this might be as good a time as any to scale things back a bit and do something smaller for a change. His script supposedly focuses on Hughes' later, more eccentric and reclusive years....... which might actually make for a perfect Covid-era film. Plus, as others have noted, Nolan has said that writing that script was the best writing experience he's ever had, so I'm dying to see what's been sitting in his drawer all these years.

Interesting that you have The Prestige ranked so high.... for some reason I thought you had all the Batman films ranked higher than The Prestige since that is more overtly sci-fi/fantasy, which I know isn't always your thing. I actually have it ranked near the bottom of his filmography since it feels like more of a "trick" to me than most of his other films. 

1. The Dark Knight
2. Memento
3. Dunkirk
4. The Prestige
5. Batman Begins

I've been itching for an Inception and Interstellar rewatch for a few years now. Liked but didn't love the latter when I saw it in theatres, might like it more now.