Getting Their Acts Together

A candid look inside the agony and ecstasy of making people laugh for a living. This funny and heartfelt documentary contains original interviews interlaced with personal footage of life on the road; all from a comedian's point of view. Once you take this step behind the curtain, you will never look at these funny folks the same way again.

Christopher Nolan's professional career spans 19 years, from 1998's Following to this year's 'Dunkirk'. The journeys undertaken in his films, however, are rarely so linear. A second can last the blink of an eye or it can slow down, freezing time. For a man with no memory, years can collapse into half-forgotten fragments, while what passes for one hour on a distant planet is years on another. From Victorian magic shows and the battle for Gotham to the multiple perspectives of armed conflict, time is elastic in a Christopher Nolan film and the experience of watching one is never less than riveting.

Annette Bening has established herself as one of the finest screen actors of her generation. After a decade in the theatre, culminating in a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Tina Howe's Coastal Disturbances, she made her feature debut in the comedy The Great Outdoors (1988) followed by a commanding performance as the Marquise de Merteuil in Valmont (1989). But it was the perfect projection of sass, charm and sexual frankness in playing Myra Langtry, a con artist in The Grifters (1990), that made Bening a star and for which she received her first BAFTA and Academy Award nominations.