By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—As a schoolboy, Christopher Nolan learned the history of the 1940 evacuation of stranded Allied troops from Dunkirk. It wasn’t until decades later, though, when the British filmmaker and his wife/producer Emma Thomas boarded a small sailing [...]

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features SANTA MONICA, Calif.—The inside of an airplane hangar provides the perfect backdrop for a press junket to promote the new World War II drama “Dunkirk.” Dressed with vintage aircraft, guns and uniforms, the gloomy French beach projected onto a back wall, it also [...]