Christopher Nolan is widely known as a student of film and
cinema. His movies are full of references and influences from earlier works,
and his latest, Interstellar, is no exception. Watching the
epic space adventure slash family drama unfold, you can’t help but notice nods
to the work of other filmmakers. While there is obvious inspiration taken from
films like Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, Steven
Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Philip
Kaufman’s The Right Stuff, there are many more that you
wouldn’t necessarily expect. Just for the hell of it, we’ve compiled a handful
of classic black and white films (and one that is, admittedly, cheating) whose
presence can be felt, to varying degrees, in Nolan’s latest offering.
