Christopher Nolan walks you through the most terrifying scene in Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is one of the year’s best films, a propulsive World War II film that’s been celebrated by both critics and, well, people who were actually there. There’s plenty about it to praise—its score, for example—but on first watch it’s the urgency and intimacy Nolan cultivates that gives the film its visceral, primal power. Above, see Nolan walk The New York Times through how he achieved that sense of immediacy via one of the film’s most distressing sequences.