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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