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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Aine O’Connor, 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, Juan José Campanella’s El secreto de sus ojos.

Prompted by a desire to bring closure to an old case, retired detective Benjamín Espósito sets out to write a novel documenting his experiences during the turbulent seventies. Prying into his earlier investigation reawakens painful memories, and powerful emotions.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 136th best movie of all-time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 19th May 2018.
• El secreto de sus ojos at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Follow Aine on Twitter.
• Nathan Rabin at The Dissolve on the strange inclusion of El secreto de sus ojos on the IMDb 250, April 2015.
• Scott Tobias at The A.V. Club on the surprise victory of El secreto de sus ojos over Un Prophète and Das Weisse Band, April 2010.
• The New York Times on whether El secreto de sus ojos was a safer choice for the Oscars, March 2010.
• A.A. Dowd at The A.V. Club on the remake Secret in Their Eyes, November 2015.
• Carla Marcantonio at The Huffington Post on how Secret in Their Eyes shifts the original’s context to the War on Terror, December 2015.
• Ed Yong at National Geographic on how the act of remembering rewrites memory, May 2013.
• Oscar Moralde at Slant Magazine on the use of cultural and historical context in El secreto de sus ojos, March 2011.
• David Hanley at Offscreen on the phenomenal success and handling of history in El secret de sus ojos, January 2016.
• The Economist on the economic collapse of Argentina in the late nineties, February 2002.
• Peter Katel at Time on the volatile political and economic crises in Argentina at the turn of the millennium, December 2001.
• Sophie Arie in The Guardian on the challenges facing Argentina’s middle classes in the Argentine Depression, December 2001.
• Nick Fletcher in The Guardian on Argentina’s manipulation of interest rates to protect the peso against the dollar, May 2018.
• The New York Times on the dilution of justice in Argentina with the introduction of the “full stop” laws, February 1987.
• The Economist on the repeal of the Argentine “full stop” laws, September 2003.
• Lydia Chavez at The New York Times on the trial of the juntas, June 1985.
• Lydia Chavez in The New York Times on the guilty verdicts in the trial of the juntas, December 1985.
• Larry Rohter at The New York Times on the production of El secreto de sus ojos, April 2010.
• Tom Vanderbilt at Wired on how Netflix knows you’re lying about liking foreign films, August 2013.
• Dick Ward at High Definition Digest on the lack of foreign language films on Netflix, November 2010.
• Dustin Rowles at Pajiba on the number of IMDb 250 titles currently available on Netflix, May 2017.
• Ciara Wardlow at Film School Rejects on the lack of classic films on Netflix, June 2017.
• John Flynn at Complex on the six Best Picture winners streaming on Netflix, February 2017.
• Darren in CinÉireann on the difficulties of (legally) streaming the movie that you want to watch, June 2017.
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