When Odysseus Stops Being Odysseus: Christopher Nolan, the Identity of the Classics, and an iWatch
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” L. P. Hartley, The Go-Between by Juan Carlos Sosa Azpúrua In The Party (1968), Peter Sellers plays an Indian actor mistakenly invited to a sophisticated Hollywood gathering. In the middle of an endless chain of blunders, the camera lingers for just an instant on an almost invisible detail: he is wearing a modern wristwatch. No one…











