Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This time, Brian dePalma’s Scarface.
Antonio Montana is an exiled criminal from Cuban who arrives in Miami. Montana plans to live the American Dream, no matter who or what stands in his way.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 106th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 7th October 2017.
- Scarface at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Ken Tucker at Entertainment Weekly on the ubiquity of Scarface, October 2006.
- Ken Tucker discusses the legacy of Scarface with Vulture, September 2008.
- S. James Snyder reviews Scarface Nation at Time, November 2008.
- Lawrence Grobel at Empire on the legacy of Scarface, October 2015.
- Bernard Weinraub at The Age on the lasting cultural impact of Scarface, September 2003.
- Steven Bauer talks to The Hollywood Reporter about the rejection and rehabilitation of Scarface, March 2013.
- Michelle Pfeiffer quoted at New York Daily News on her memories of shooting Scarface, March 2017.
- A.O. Scott at The New York Times on the polarising Brian de Palma, September 2006.
- Slant Magazine‘s retrospective on the films of Brian de Palma, September 2006.
- Owen Gleiberman at Variety on the difficuty of loving Brian de Palma, June 2016.
- Jacob Knight at birth.death.movies on placing Scarface within Brian de Palma’s filmography, June 2016.
- Christopher Hooton at The Independent on Oliver Stone’s relationship to cocaine filtered through Scarface, January 2017.
- Adam Martin at The Atlantic on the decline of cocaine in Miami, April 2011.
- Alexander Abad-Santos at The Atlantic on the effect of popular movies on drug consumption, February 2014.
- Chris Yates at SBS on Scarface‘s impact on hip hop culture, April 2017.
- Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson and Kate Erbland at IndieWire on the troubled Scarface remake, July 2017.
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