Netflix has added Christopher Nolan's 2000 psychological thriller Memento to its streaming catalogue, the film widely credited with launching the director's career. The timing is notable because it comes just ahead of the release of Nolan's much-anticipated new film, The Odyssey, his reimagining of Homer's epic, which arrives in cinemas later this month.

The article frames the streaming arrival as a chance to revisit Nolan's early work before his latest large-scale project. It contrasts Memento's intimate, twisty, puzzle-box storytelling with the grand IMAX epics about space, war, dreams and physics that later made his name, positioning Nolan among celebrated filmmakers such as Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg and Cameron. Much of the piece is given over to wider context about Hollywood's history and an unrelated interactive film quiz.