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A young movie director on the verge of launching a summer hit would hardly seem to qualify as a victim, yet Hollywood can make casualties of even its heroes. Christopher Nolan, the thirty-four-year-old London-born director of "Batman Begins," first came to widespread notice in 2000, with "Memento," which tells the story of its baffled protagonist, who suffers from short-term memory loss, in reverse. Fast, unsettling, and sexy, it kept your mind on the edge of its seat. Nolan followed "Memento" with the underrated big-budget thriller "Insomnia," in which a sleepless Al Pacino and a nasty Robin Williams match wits among the stunning pale-blue-and-gray ice fields of Alaska. ...