Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and this week with special guests Stacy Grouden and Charlene Lydon, and featuring Phil Bagnall, 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 Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.
This time, Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.
The Grand Budapest Hotel is a glorious ruin on the continent of Europe. A visiting author happens to strike up a conversation with the establishment’s owner, who crafts an epic and heartwarming tale of love, murder and scandal against the backdrop of the chaotic mid-twentieth century.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 192nd best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded 15th April 2018.
- Phil arrives around the two-thirds mark in the recording, in large part due to Darren’s poor organisational skills. It was a pleasure to have him on. He arrived early for a recording of the Amadeus episode. Which you can listen to right now. Because time is a construct.
- The Grand Budapest Hotel at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Read Stacy’s articles at State.ie.
- Read the April edition of CinÉireann, including an article from Stacy on the cinema of Wes Anderson.
- Follow Stacy on Twitter.
- Follow Charlene on Twitter.
- Visit the Lighthouse Cinema’s homepage.
- Follow the Lighthouse Cinema on Twitter.
- Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa on Black Jeopardy! for Saturday Night Live, April 2018.
- Ed Norton as Owen Wilson in Wes Anderson’s The Midnight Coterie of Sinister Intruders for Saturday Night Live, October 2013.
- Patrick (H) Willems presents Wes Anderson’s Uncanny X-Men movie, March 2015.
- Kogonada’s study of the use of visual symmetry and centred compositions in Wes Anderson movies, March 2014.
- Andrew Ihla at Talk Film on the shifting aspect ratios within The Grand Budapest Hotel, July 2017.
- David Haglund and Aisha Harris at Slate on the shifting aspect ratios within The Grand Budapest Hotel, March 2014.
- Maane Khatchatourian at Variety on the special instructions that Anderson issued to projectionists for The Grand Budapest Hotel, March 2014.
- David Bordwell on Wes Anderson’s technique in The Grand Budapest Hotel, March 2014.
- Kyle Buchanan at Vulture on how Wes Anderson’s characters only move on two axis, March 2014.
- Anthony Kaufman discusses Lars Von Trier’s Five Obstructions at IndieWire, May 2004.
- Chris Lee at The Los Angeles Times on the controversy around Wes Anderson’s direction of animation in The Fantastic Mister Fox, October 2009.
- Wes Anderson discusses the genesis and origins of The Grand Budapest Hotel with Collider, February 2014.
- Glenn Whipp at Variety on the Academy’s long-standing genre bias against comedy, February 2010.
- Angie McPherson at National Geographic on the geographical influences upon Zubrowka in The Grand Budapest Hotel, March 2014.
- Melissa Locker at Travel + Leisure on TripAdvisor‘s rave reviews of Zubrowka, December 2015.
- Carol Anderson discusses the long-simmering gestation of “white rage” on The Ezra Klein Show, April 2018.
- J. Hoberman at Tablet on Jewish-themed movies without Jewish characters, including The Grand Budapest Hotel, June 2014.
- Norman L. Eisen at The Atlantic on The Grand Budapest Hotel as a movie about the Holocaust but without the Holocaust, February 2015.
- Leo Carey at The New Yorker on the sad life and death of Stefan Zweig, August 2012.
- Jonah Weiner at Slate discusses Wes Anderson’s handling of race, particularly in The Darjeeling Limited, September 2007.
- David Canfield at Entertainment Weekly discusses the cultural appropriation controversy over Isle of Dogs, March 2018.
- Paddy Kehoe at RTÉ wonders whether The Grand Budapest Hotel might have worked better with Johnny Depp, March 2014.
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