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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney and this week with special guest Kieran Gillen, 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 Saturday at 6pm GMT.

This time, Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s Intouchables.

Sparks fly and worlds collide when a wealthy quadriplegic hires an unemployed former felon to serve as his personal care nurse. Philippe and Driss forge an unlikely and heartwarming bond, coming to a deeper understanding of on another and the world around them.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 38th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 23rd September 2018.
• The first of two “lost” episodes among the first one hundred episodes of the podcast released. The other, Touch of Evil, was released two weeks ago.
• Intouchables at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Julie Bosman at The New York Times on the book that inspired Intouchables, December 2011.
• Maïa de la Baume at The New York Times on the phenomenal success of Intouchables inside France, December 2011.
• Christine Ockrent at The New York Times on whether Intouchables is an “un-French” movie, January 2012.
• Jason Bailey at The Atlantic on how 2012 was a boom year for French cinema, and the problems with Best Foreign Language Oscar, February 2013.
• Larry Roher at The New York Times on a bumper year for foreign language submissions at the Academy Awards, November 2012.
• Jeff Sneider at Collider on the release difficulties facing the American remake of Intouchables, The Upside, August 2018.
• Khaled A. Beydoun at The Guardian on Trevor Noah’s joke about France’s World Cup victory, July 2018.
• Annabelle Timsit at QZ on how the World Cup controversy demonstrates the world’s misunderstanding of the French, July 2018.
• Phil Hoad at The Guardian on “postcard arthouse” films, December 2013.
• James McAuley at The Washington Post on the undocumented migrant who saved a child dangling from a Paris balcony, May 2018.
• Steven Poole at The Guardian on the absurd standard imposed on immigrants to achieve citizenship, May 2018.
• A.O. Scott at The New York Times discusses the complicated racial politics of Intouchables, May 2012.
• Ian Buckwalter at The Atlantic argues that feel-good films about disability should also make audiences feel bad, November 2012.
• Francis Phillips at The Catholic Herald on Philippe Pozzo di Borgo’s advocacy against euthanasia, September 2014.
• Michael Haneke talks to The Guardian about keeping it light-hearted while filming, November 2012.
• Liz Labacz at Thought Catalogue on the art of punching up in comedy, July 2014.
• David Zurawik at The Baltimore Sun on the death of appointment television, December 2013.
• Rebecca Nicholson at The Guardian on the appeal of video shops, July 2018.
• Justin Heckert at The Ringer on the closing of the last Blockbuster video store in Alaska, July 2018.
• T.C. Sottek at The Verge on how Netflix picks the thumbnails to show for each movie, May 2016.
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