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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Andy Hazel, 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.

This time, Adam Elliot’s Mary and Max.

Mary Daisy Dinkle is a precocious eight-year-old growing up in the suburbs of Waverley outside Melbourne. One day, on the spur of the moment, she picks a name at random out of a phone book and decides to write to Max Jerry Horovitz, an atheist Jew living in New York City. The two strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses decades, navigating their interwoven lives separated by half the world.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 177th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 12th May 2019.
• Mary and Max at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Listen to Andy’s interview with director Adam Elliot.
• Follow Andy on Twitter.
• Read Andy’s work at The Saturday Paper.
• Listen to Andy on The Cultural Capital podcast.
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• Listen to Andy on the Twin Peaks Season 3 podcast.
• Follow Twin Peaks Season 3 on Twitter.
• Brian Raftery at Wired on the reemergence of physical media in the era of streaming, December 2018.
• Sean Hollister at The Verge on Samsung’s decision to move away from blu ray manufacturing, February 2019.
• Adam Elliot appears in an advertisement for RACV Home Insurance, 2005.
• Parklands, Cate Blanchett’s early starring role set in Adelaide suburbia, at IMDb, March 1996.
• Matthew Sims charts the history of Melbourne through its cinematic depictions at The Culture Trip, January 2017.
• Shane Green at The Age on the changing face of Glen Waverley, August 2012.
• The Australian Centre for the Moving Image.
• Gabriella Coslovich at The Sydney Morning Herald on how the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is embracing the future, February 2019.
• Monty Python‘s “Bruces Sketch”, November 1970.
• Jeremy Kay at Screen Daily reports on plans for Mary and Max to open Sundance, November 2008.
• Paul Halley at The Odyssey Online discusses that handling of Asperger Syndrome in Mary and Max, April 2016.
• Kristen Lopez at Forbes on Tropic Thunder‘s commentary on Hollywood’s treatment of mental disability, November 2018.
• Noel Murray at PBS on the portrayal of autism in cinema, January 2016.
• Zach Schonfeld at Newsweek on the lasting impression that When Harry Met Sally left on Katz’s Deli, July 2014.
• Scott Meslow at The Atlantic on how celebrities took over cartoon voice acting, October 2011.
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Filed under: The 250 | Tagged: andy hazel, animation, film, mary and max, philip seymour hoffman, stop-motion, toni collette, touching |