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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 Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.

This time, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

A “Southern” set against the backdrop of the southern states in the lead-up to the Civil War. Freed by the German bounty hunter King Schultz, Django embarks upon a mission to free his wife Broomhilda from the clutches of slave-owner Calvin Candie. Together, Schultz and Django find themselves entering the heart of darkness.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 61st best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 24th March 2018.
• Andrew misidentifies Crimson Tide as The Hunt for Red October.
• Django Unchained at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• The Globalist podcast at The Monocle.
• Justene G. Hill at the American Historical Association wonders about Hollywood’s renewed interest in slavery, May 2016.
• Richard Brody at The New Yorker wonders whether movies can (or should) depict the horrors of slavery, October 2014.
• Steve Rose discusses the erasure of slavery from Sofia Coppola’s remake of The Beguiled at The Guardian, July 2017.
• Quentin Tarantino talks to GQ about the links between The Hateful Eight and Black Lives Matter, December 2015.
• Benjamin Lee at The Guardian on Quentin Tarantino’s support of Black Lives Matter, October 2015.
• Dave McNary at Variety on the police boycott of The Hateful Eight, October 2015.
• Quentin Tarantino criticises John Ford to IndieWire, December 2012.
• Quentin Tarantino concedes to The New York Times that he knew enough about Harvey Weinstein to do more than he did, October 2017.
• Sonia Rao at The Washington Post on the controversy around Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman, February 2018.
• Brent Lang at Variety on Quentin Tarantino’s apology to Samantha Geimer, February 2018.
• Stephen Marche argues at Esquire that Django Unchained is a better movie about slavery than Lincoln, December 2012.
• James Cosby at PopMatters compares the handling of slavery in Django Unchained and 12 Years a Slave…, February 2014.
• David Denby at The New Yorker on the trashy quality of Django Unchained, January 2013.
• Nathan Rabin at The Dissolve on how Django Unchained makes the horrors the Antebellum South tangible through pulp, March 2015.
• A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis at The New York Times discuss Django Unchained in the broader context of the Obama era, January 2013.
• Ta-Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic on the culture wars fought over Django Unchained, December 2012.
• Rolling Stone reports on Spike Lee’s criticisms of Django Unchained, December 2012.
• Will Smith talks to Entertainment Weekly about turning down the lead role in Django Unchained, March 2013.
• Samuel L. Jackson discusses playing the role of Stephen in Django Unchained with MTV, December 2012.
• Justin at Taint.org provides a transcript of Samuel L. Jackson’s interview with Sky about Colin Farrell, December 2003.
• Quentin Tarantino talks to IndieWire about the potential for a four-hour miniseries of Django Unchained, May 2014.
• MI6-HQ presents a chronology of Quentin Tarantino’s aborted Casino Royale, July 2012.
• Reginald Hudlin talks to IndieWire about the Django Unchained comic book, December 2012.
• Reginald Hudlin talks to The Washington Post about Quentin Tarantino’s Django/Zorro crossover comic, February 2015.
• Quentin Tarantino talks to Entertainment Weekly about how The Hateful Eight originated as a sequel novel to Django Unchained, December 2015.
• Aisha Harris at Slate on the historical inaccuracies of “mandingo fighting” as presented in Django Unchained, December 2012.
• Nolan Moore at Screen Prism discusses the historical accuracy of Django Unchained, and whether that matters, July 2015.
• Sam Adams at IndieWire on Quentin Tarantino’s preoccupation with black masculinity in The Hateful Eight, January 2016.
• Dana Schwartz at GQ on the sexual subtext of American racism, August 2016.
• Brian Resnick at Vox on how racial resentment often correlates with fear about shifting demographics, January 2017.
• Katherine Ellison on the Pygmalion Effect for Discover Magazine, October 2015.
• Darren on the deconstruction of the white saviour narrative in Django Unchained, May 2017.
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