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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest 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, Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige.

On the cusp of the twentieth century, an obsession brews between two magicians. Alfred Borden and Robert Angier compete to surpass one another on the London stage; lives will be lost, illusions will be shattered, and reality itself might fray along the edges.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 49th best movie of all-time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 17th June 2018.
• The Prestige at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Scott Beggs at IndieWire on David Bowie’s performance in The Prestige, January 2016.
• Christopher Nolan talks to Entertainment Weekly about directing David Bowie in The Prestige, January 2016.
• Christopher Priest talks to The Hollywood Reporter about Nolan’s later films, August 2014.
• David Bordwell discusses The Prestige in Film Art: An Introduction, July 2012.
• Simon Lund Larsen on foreshadowing and pay-off in The Prestige, April 2017.
• Mike D’Angelo at The A.V. Club discusses how The Prestige conceals its big reveals from the audience, February 2016.
• Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell on Nolan’s narrative structuring at Observations on Film Art, August 2012.
• Mike D’Angelo and Keith Uhlich discuss Christopher Nolan’s filmography at IndieWire, July 2012.
• Annetta Black at Atlas Obscura on the strange story of Chung Ling Soo and the bullet catch that went horribly wrong, May 2011.
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