Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Charlene Lydon, 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, kicking off our Summer of ’99 season, Toby Kaye’s American History X.
1999 was a great year for movies, with a host of massively successful (and cult) hits that would define cinema for a next generation: The Matrix, The Blair Witch Project, The Best Man, Cruel Intentions, Fight Club. The Summer of ’99 season offers a trip through the year in film on the IMDb‘s 250.
Danny Vinyard finds himself called to the principal’s office after submitting a salacious and controversial essay citing Adolf Hitler as a civil rights hero. There, the school principal Doctor Sweeney sets Derek another assignment: a personally essay exploring his relationship with his white supremacist brother Derek. Derek Vinyard was just released from prison that morning, and is about to discover that putting his life back together will not be as easy as he might have hoped.
At time of recording, it was ranked 34th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 6th July 2019.
- American History X at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Note: American History X was technically released in the United States in October 1998. However, it would not hit Irish cinemas until March 1999. So we’re absolutely cheating and counting it as part of this season.
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- Brian Cabell at CNN reports on the murder of Senator Tommy Burks by Bryon (Low Tax) Looper, October 1998.
- James Brooke at The New York Times reports on the murder of Matthew Shepard, October 1998.
- The Washington Post profiles Eric Rudolph as “a new dangerous type” of terrorist, December 1998.
- Vanessa Thorpe at The Guardian on the emergence of television advertisement directors into film, December 2000.
- Patrick Goldstein at The Los Angeles Times looks at the production and development of American History X, September 1998.
- Patrick Goldstein at The Los Angeles Times reports on the brewing tensions between Tony Kaye and New Line Cinema, June 1998.
- Mike Figgis interviews Tony Kaye for Hollywood Conversations, October 1998.
- Ryan Lambe at Den of Geek looks at the complicated relationship between Tony Kaye and Hollywood, September 2016.
- Adam Higginbotham profiles Tony Kaye for The Telegraph, June 2007.
- Tony Kaye talks to The Guardian about his struggles over American History X, October 2002.
- The Guardian reports on Kaye’s failed lawsuit over American History X, April 2000.
- Stephen Hoban at Vulture offers a timeline of Osama-bin-Laden-themed comedy, May 2011.
- Nate Jones at Vulture reports on Marlon Brando’s star-studded acting class, June 2015.
- “Marlon Brando’s Acting Masterclass”, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, September 2003.
- Benjamin Mercer reports from the Tribeca Film Festival for The Atlantic on Tony Kaye’s Detachment, April 2011.
- Sam Barsanti at The A.V. Club reports on Tony Kaye’s plans to film Second Born with a robot star, August 2018.
- Tony Kaye talks to The Playlist about still being in “director jail”, August 2015.
- Chris Lee at The Los Angeles Times reports on Edward Norton’s reputation for being a difficult talent, June 2008.
- Rebecca Traister at Observer reports on Edward Norton’s contractually-obligated appearance in The Italian Job, September 2002.
- Martin Schneider at Dangerous Minds reports on Van Morrison’s contractual obligations (or “revenge”) album, New York Sessions ’67, February 2015.
- New York Sessions ’67 by Van Morrison on Spotify, 1996.
- Jo Tuckman at The Guardian reports on the production of Frida, August 2001.
- Jenelle Riley at Backstage reports on Edward Norton’s status as “the next Robert DeNiro”, January 2007.
- Edward Helmore at The Guardian on rumours about Marlon Brando’s work on The Score, July 2001.
- The Guardian reports on tensions during the shooting of The Score, July 2001.
- Tim Robey at The Telegraph talks to Frank Oz about the challenges of directing Brando on The Score, September 2001.
- Rosie Findlay at The Conversation asks why more men don’t wear kilts, January 2014.
- Claudia Eller at The Los Angeles Times on the challenges of marketing American History X to a mainstream audience, October 1998.
- Michael De Luca talks to Vulture about whether American History X could be made today, October 2013.
- Edward Norton likens American History X to the bold cinema of the sixties and seventies at The A.V. Club, January 2007.
- Bijan Stephen at The Verge on the cultural importance of video stores, August 2018.
- Travis M. Andrews at The Washington Post on the increasing cultural irrelevance of things like music charts, July 2018.
- The BBC on the history of the Christmas number one, December 2018.
- Frank Dale at Think Progress on the “facts don’t care about your feelings” mantra, July 2018.
- Kill All Normies by Angela Nagel at Amazon.com, June 2017.
- Angela Nagel talks to Vox about the roots of the alt-right, August 2017.
- Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Noreen Malone and Max Read at New York Magazine on understanding the alt-right, April 2017.
- Richard Fausset at The New York Times profiles a neo-nazi in Ohio, November 2017.
- Carla Herreria at The Huffington Post on the controversy over The New York Times humanising white supremacists, November 2017.
- All That’s Interesting looks at the history of the skinhead movement, March 2017.
- Steve Knopper at GQ reports on the fight to reclaim the punk scene from neo-nazis, January 2018.
- Vincent Caruso at Diffuser on the history and continued evolution of “Nazi Punks F&!k Off”, August 2017.
- Christopher Hooton at The Independent on how American History X has aged, October 2018.
- Clayton Schuster at Vice on the relevance of American History X, October 2018.
- Gerard Baker at The Times on Trump’s politics of white resentment, July 2019.
- Gary Younge at The Guardian on his tour of a modern and divided America, November 2017.
- Valerie Volcovici at Reuters reports on coal miners rejecting retraining in favour of seeking their old jobs, November 2017.
- Ta-Nehisi Coates makes the case for reparations at The Atlantic, June 2014.
- Chris Lawton and Robert Ackrill at The Conversation on how the areas with the least immigrants are often the most xenophobic, July 2016.
- Frances Ryan at The Guardian on how voters most affected by austerity voted for Brexit, May 2019.
- David Kronke at The Los Angeles Times on the use of black-and-white cinematography at the turn of the millennium, November 1998.
- Bobby Roberts at Cracked on the complications around the handling of race in American History X, October 2009.
- Deborah Bloom at The Guardian on the tattoo shop offering white supremacists a fresh start, February 2019.
- Christian Picciolini talks to NPR about his journey from white supremacy to rehabilitation, January 2018.
- Adam Harris at The Atlantic reports on how Harvard rescinded an admissions offer to Kyle Kashuv, June 2019.
- WATE News reports on the arrest of Jennifer Lien, March 2018.
- Scott Lucas reports at Politico on how California gave the world Trumpism, April 2017.
- Paul Schrodt at Business Insider on Donald Trump’s quoting of Bane, January 2017.
- Jason Wilson at The Guardian on the weaponisation of irony by the alt-right, May 2017.
- Maggie Williams at Material Collective on the cooption of Celtic symbols by white supremacy, August 2017.
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Hollywood loves making movies about nazis whilst its stars, such as Sandra Bullock, rhapsodise about moisturising & de-aging their faces with cosmetics concocted, in part, from the foreskins of baby boys.
Um. Sandra Bullock isn’t in American History X.