Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, This Just In is a subset of the fortnightly The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival.
Show Notes:
- The first episode of This Just In, a bonus subset of The 250 focusing on notable new entries and their place in the canon.
- Recorded 18th November 2016.
- Arrival entered the IMDb‘s Top 250 at number 112. By the time of recording, it had climbed to 101.
- Arrival at the Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Top 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Interview with screenwriter Eric Heisserer at Vox.
- Feature from GQ on the adaptation process.
- Darren Franich at Entertainment Weekly on the precarious state of “literary” science-fiction on the big screen.
- Guy Duetscher at The New York Times on the Sapir Whorf Hypothesis.
- Is it easier to understand maths depending on the language that you speak?
- Stephen Wolfram on coding the heptopod language and more.
- Darren’s review of Arrival.
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