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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and this week with special guests Phil Bagnall and Joe Griffin, 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, Michael Mann’s Heat.

Michael Mann’s Los Angeles crime epic finds lives intersecting and overlapping in the City of Angels. At the heart of the story, career criminal Neil McCauley and driven detective Vincent Hanna find themselves on a collision course that leave countless lives shattered in their wake.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 124th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 7th November 2017.
• Recorded in Chaplin’s Pub on Hawkins Street. The establishment was very friendly and generous.
• Heat at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Follow Joe on Twitter.
• Read Phil’s reviews at Scannain.
• Art Harris at The Washington Post on Michael Mann as a perfectionist, October 1985.
• Ryan Lamble at Den of Geek on the meticulous research that went into Heat, August 2017.
• Michael Mann explains the writing process on Heat with Deadline, September 2016.
• Michael Mann discusses the production of Heat with Rolling Stone, December 2015.
• Chris Klimek at The Dissolve on the long road to Heat, January 2015.
• Kristopher Tapley at Variety on the Academy screening of the remastered Heat, September 2016.
• Michael Mann discusses the process of remastering Heat with Vanity Fair, May 2017.
• Robbie Collins at The Telegraph reflects on the legacy of Heat, February 2015.
• Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at The A.V. Club on what makes Heat just a classic American movie, June 2015.
• Chris Ryan and Sean Witzke at Grantland on how Heat came to define Michael Mann’s filmography in the following decades, January 2015.
• Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline on Michael Mann’s plans to write a Heat prequel novel, March 2016.
• The staff at The Dissolve discuss the cultural impact of Heat, January 2015.
• Tom Noonan discusses his work on Heat with The A.V. Club, November 2009.
• Tom Sizemore discusses his work on Heat with The A.V. Club, March 2013.
• Cinema/Urbanism on Michael Mann’s Los Angeles, January 2015.
• Michael Mann talks with The Guardian about his fascination with Los Angeles in relation to Collateral, August 2004.
• Michael Mann talks with The Los Angeles Times about shooting Los Angeles on digital for Collateral, June 2004.
• Carman Tse at The L.A.ist on the loneliness of Los Angeles in Heat, May 2017.
• Wael Khairy at RogerEbert.com on the emptiness of Los Angeles in Heat, January 2011.
• Scott Tobias at The Dissolve on the characters’ attempts to impose order on a disordered world in Heat, January 2015.
• Sean Burns at RogerEbert.com on movement, particularly the chase, in Heat, January 2015.
• Ari Mattes at The Journal of Popular Film and Television on the masculine American action hero in Heat, December 2014.
• Marc Bernardin at The Los Angeles Times on the decline of the movie star and the rise of the franchise, June 2016.
• Stuart Heritage at The Guardian on Michael Fassbender’s year of flops, October 2017.
• Peter Bart at Variety on movie stars as an endangered species, June 2014.
• Glass Distortion discusses the impact of Heat on The Dark Knight, February 2017.
• Cyriaque Lamar at io9 on Pixar’s rules of storytelling, June 2012.
• Doug Smith and Kate Mather at The Los Angeles Times on how the 1997 North Hollywood Shootout changed policing in Los Angeles and beyond, February 2017.
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