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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Jack Hodges, 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, Sean Penn’s Into the Wild.

Christopher McCandless abandoned a comfortable middle-class life in pursuit of something greater. His search would take him across the United States, impacting the lives of those he met along the way. His search would eventually lead him into the Alaskan wilderness.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 180th best movie of all-time on the Internet Movie Database.

Notes:

• Recorded 12th May 2018.
• Into the Wild at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Visit Jack’s YouTube channel.
• The New York Times retrospective obituary of Christopher McCandless, August 2016.
• The New York Times reports the discovery of Christopher McCandless’ body, September 1992.
• Jon Krakauer discusses the open mystery of how Christopher McCandless actually died in The New Yorker, September 2013.
• The New Yorker publishes letters from Alaska about media coverage of the death of Christopher McCandless, February 1993.
• Diana Saverin at Outside Magazine discusses the legacy of Christopher McCandless to Alaska, December 2013.
• Craig Medred at The Anchorage Daily News covers the region’s response to news coverage of Christopher McCandless, September 2016.
• Tasha Robinson at The A.V. Club on the differences between Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild and Sean Penn’s film adaptation of Into the Wild, February 2008.
• Larry Fitzmaurice at Vice on how “the Magic Bus” has become a site of religious pilgrimage, July 2016.
• Sam Adams at IndieWire on the most popular movies on IMDb for each of its first twenty-five years, October 2015.
• Eric Johnson, Gail Deutsch, Jasmine Brown, Alexa Valiente Lauren Effron at ABC News cover the fraught relationship between Carine McCandless and her parents, November 2014.
• The Wild Truth by Carine McCandless at Amazon.co.uk, November 2014.
• Heller McAlpin at NPR reviews The Wild Truth, November 2014.
• Chris Mandle at The Independent reports on Emile Hirsh’s attack on Daniele Bernfeld at Sundance, August 2015.
• J.K. Trotter at Gawker on Sean Penn’s history of domestic abuse, December 2015.
• David Carradine discusses Kung-Fu with The Los Angeles Times, July 1993.
• Marge Fenelon at Catholic Herald on the importance of remember the “white martyrs”, October 2015.
• Paul Lester at The Guardian on the cultural martyrdom of figures like Ian Curtis, April 2008.
• National Air Traffic Services maps the almost 3000 flights across the North Atlantic each day, July 2014.
• Walter H. F. Smith, Karen M. Marks, and Thierry Schmitt discuss how many flights cover unmapped oceans at Earth and Space Science News, March 2017.
• Mary Beard discusses Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich in The New Yorker, November 2013.
• Claire Marshall at the BBC on how Brexit has caused a crisis for migrant fruit pickers, June 2018.
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