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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Niall Murphy, Jay Coyle and Phil Bagnell, 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, Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.

Notes:

• Recorded 25th July 2017.
• Dunkirk at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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• Christopher Nolan explains to The Verge why Dunkirk is “virtual reality without the goggles.”
• Carolyn Giardina at The Hollywood Reporter on how Dunkirk took advantage of of IMAX cameras.
• Rebecca Hawkes at The Telegraph on the destruction of a $5m Second World War plane in Dunkirk.
• Anthony D’Alessandro at Deadline on how Christopher Nolan turned Dunkirk into a summer tentpole.
• Grace Duffy at Scannain on the complicated debate around Netflix and the future of cinema.
• David Sims at The Atlantic in defense of Christopher Nolan’s comments about Netflix.
• Daniel Hubbard at Slate on the six different formats in which Dunkirk is playing.
• Matt Zoller Seitz at RogerEbert.com describes Dunkirk as an “ant farm movie.”
• Christopher Nolan talks to The Independent about how Dunkirk is not a war film, but a “survival” film.
• Noah Berlatsky at Slate on how Dunkirk subverts the conventions of the war movie.
• Steve Rose at The Guardian on British cinema in the Brexit era.
• Christopher Hooten at The Independent on how Nigel Farage is trying to make Dunkirk into “a Brexit thing.”
• Zoe Haylock at Refinery 29 on the number of words spoken by female characters in Dunkirk.
• Jonathon Sturgeon at The Baffler on Christopher Nolan as “the Last Tory.”
• Jason Wilson at The Guardian on the attempts to turn Dunkirk into a front in the culture war.
• Anthony Black on the politics of Christopher Nolan.
• Glenn Whipp at The Los Angeles Times on the Academy’s response to Dunkirk.
• David Fear at Rolling Stone on how Nolan finally delivered on his potential in Dunkirk.
• Andrew Pulver at The Guardian on whether Nolan can now “walk the Kubrick walk.”
• Peter Hitchens at The Mail on Sunday trolling on Dunkirk.
• David Cox at The Guardian on how Dunkirk is “bloodless, boring and empty.”
• David Crow at Den of Geek on the Christopher Nolan backlash.
• Matt Singer at Screen Crush on the intensity of Christopher Nolan fans.
• Christopher Nolan discusses the use of the Shepard Tone on the Dunkirk soundtrack with Business Insider.
• Darren’s review of Dunkirk.
• Darren on the praise for Dunkirk and the unspoken assumption of genre legitimacy.
• Darren on the diminishing importance of dialogue in cinematic storytelling.
• Darren on the stock comparison between Nolan and Kubrick.
• Darren on the politics of The Dark Knight Rises.
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