Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Grace Duffy, 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, Ron Howard’s Rush.
In the early seventies, the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda was the stuff of legend among Formula 1 enthusiasts. Two very different men competing for every different reasons, Hunt and Lauda formed an unlikely bond that sustained and motivated both of them to push themselves further than their limits.
At time of recording, it was ranked 206th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 9th June 2019.
- Rush at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Sanjay S Prakash at Sport Skeeda on the top five rivalries of Michael Schumacher, June 2018.
- Richard Williams at The Guardian offers an obituary of Niki Lauda, May 2019.
- Niki Lauda talks to The Telegraph about the production of Rush, June 2015.
- Daniel Brühl talks to IndieWire about the pressure of playing Niki Lauda on screen in Rush, September 2013.
- Top Gear goes behind the scenes on the production of Rush, September 2013.
- Alex Von Tunzelmann at The Guardian on the “reel history” of Rush, September 2013.
- Ron Howard talks to The Hollywood Reporter about making Rush, September 2013.
- Noel Murray and Scott Tobias at The Dissolve debate Ron Howard as an auteur, September 2013.
- Ronald Bergan at The Guardian on Ron Howard as the anti-auteur, August 2008.
- Marc Bernardin at The Los Angeles Times ranks and discusses the work of Ron Howard, October 2016.
- Paul Gaita at Variety on how Ron Howard got his big break from Roger Corman, December 2015.
- Jesse Hassenger at The Verge on the challenges facing Robert Zemeckis as a twenty-first century auteur, December 2018.
- Sonny Bunch at The Washington Post on how Ron Howard’s lack of a distinct auteur sensibility made him the perfect choice for Solo: A Star Wars Story, June 2017.
- Kristopher Tapley at Variety on the chaos during the production of Solo: A Star Wars Story, May 2018.
- David Greene at NPR on the history of “six degrees of Kevin Bacon”, September 2012.
- Amanda Holpuch at The Guardian on whether Kevin Bacon really is the most connected actor in Hollywood, September 2012.
- Bill Caswell at Jalopnik on the dangers of the Nürburgring, October 2011.
- Matthew Bell at The Independent on the possibility that the Nürburgring may close, September 2012.
- Jim Weeks at Vice on the legacy of the death of Ayrton Senna, April 2017.
- Jack de Menezes at The Independent on the legacy of Ayrton Senna, May 2019.
- Giles Richards at The Guardian on the death of Jules Bianchi, October 2017.
- John Lichfield at The Independent reports on Michael Schumacher’s skiing accident, January 2015.
- Jordan Golson at Wired on how today’s Formula 1 cars are amazingly safe and horribly uncomfortable, July 2014.
- Giles Richard at The Guardian on Jackie Stewart’s struggles to make Formula 1 a safer sport for all, June 2019.
- J. Bryan Lowder at Slate on whether Hans Zimmer is repeating himself, November 2013.
- Adrian Daub at Longreads on how Hans Zimmer changed the sound of Hollywood, December 2016.
- Every Frame a Painting on how temp tracks are ruining movie music, September 2016.
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Just getting started on this, and the discussion of how Lauda would normally be the villain. That reminds me of Senna, which made Prost into that studious, rule abiding villain in a documentary about Formula 1.
Makes them interesting companion pieces, the documentary that makes it’s characters black and white, and the drama that takes very similar characters and plays it far more nuanced and realistic.
Hi Robin! Hope you enjoyed. Yeah, it’s an interesting contrast between the two. I hadn’t twigged that point of comparison, but it has been years since I’ve seen Senna. (I really want to see Maradona, but haven’t had a chance.)