Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Phil Bagnall, 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, Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood.
It’s February 1969. Everything is changing. Hollywood itself seems to be facing an inevitable collision with the turmoil that has engulfed the rest of the world. Against this backdrop, lives intersect and collide. Returning from the United Kingdom, Sharon Tate moves in next door to washed up fifties western star Rick Dalton, both completely unaware of how profoundly their lives will impact one another.
At time of recording, it was ranked 127th on the Internet Movie Database’s list of the best movies of all-time.
Show Notes
- Recorded 17th August 2019.
- Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Alan Evans at The Guardian on Tarantino’s self-imposed ten-film limit, November 2016.
- Zach Vasquez at The Guardian on the question of what Tarantino’s tenth and final film will be, July 2019.
- Scott Tobias at The A.V. Club on Tarantino’s C.S.I. episode, February 2012.
- Quentin Tarantino, Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio talk to Esquire about the history and production of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, May 2019.
- Maeve McDermott at USA Today reports on the first image released from Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, March 2019.
- Quentin Tarantino talks to Entertainment Weekly about how The Hateful Eight began as a Django Unchained tie-in novel, December 2015.
- Jeff Sneider at Collider on reports that Quentin Tarantino is working on an adaptation of Vertigo’s Django/Zorro comic, June 2019.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on the financial success of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, August 2019.
- Frank Pallotta at CNN on Disney having five films to cross the one billion dollar mark at the global box office, August 2019.
- Sarah Whitten at CNBC reports on Disney’s potential nine billion dollar earnings this calendar year, June 2019.
- Kyle Buchanan at The New York Times reports on the precarious uncertain future of the movie industry, June 2019.
- Manuela Lazic at The Ringer on the star power of Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, July 2019.
- The Audition, October 2015.
- Tatiana Siegel at The Hollywood Reporter on Leonardo DiCaprio as the last movie star, July 2019.
- Kayleigh Donaldson at Pajiba on whether Leonardo DiCaprio really is the last movie star, July 2019.
- Emily VanDerWerff at Vox explores the many controversies of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, August 2019.
- Emily VanDerWerff at Vox offers a reappraisal of The Hateful Eight, December 2018.
- Darren discusses The Hateful Eight as a timely deconstruction of the Western and an exploration of American anxieties at the m0vie blog, August 2016.
- Gwilym Mumford at The Guardian on Quentin Tarantino’s hypothesis rejection, May 2019.
- Xan Brooks at The Guardian on Quentin Tarantino’s butt-shutting-down, January 2013.
- Maureen Callahan at The New York Post on Tarantino’s legendary ego, December 2015.
- Ben Walters at The Guardian on editor Sally Menke’s contributions to Tarantino’s success, September 2010.
- Brian Grubb at Uproxx argues that Jackie Brown is Tarantino’s best film, July 2019.
- Mary McNamara at The Los Angeles Times on the nostalgia of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- Adam Nayman at The BFI on the Tarantino’s nostalgic indulgence in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, August 2019.
- Mick Brown at The Telegraph on the Manson murders as the end of the sixties, July 2019.
- The White Album by Joan Didion, 1979.
- Jen Chaney at Vulture on how the media has kept Charles Manson alive in the popular imagination, November 2017.
- Kate Knibbs at The Ringer on the gravity that Charles Manson exerts, July 2019.
- Mike McPhate at The California Sun on the state’s political bubbles, August 2018.
- Michael S. Rosenwald at The Washington Post on the turbulence outside Hollywood in the late sixties, January 2018.
- Matthew Twombly at The Smithsonian Magazine offers a timeline of 1968, “the year that shattered America”, January 2018.
- Ron Elving at NPR on echoes of the late sixties in contemporary politics, July 2016.
- Michael Cohen discusses the echoes of 1968 with Vox, July 2016.
- The Independent reports on Spike Lee’s clash with Tarantino over his use of race, December 2012.
- Samuel L. Jackson defends Tarantino’s use of the n-word at IndieWire, March 2019.
- Zoë Bell talks to Vulture about working on Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, August 2019.
- Spencer Kornhaber at The Atlantic on the use of violence in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, August 2019.
- Lindsey Romaine at Nerdist on the controversy around Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- Nancy Bilyeau at Town and Country Magazine on the enduring mystery around the death of Natalie Wood, November 2018.
- Margaret Qualley talks to Vulture about the use of her feet in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- Darren writes about Quentin Tarantino writing himself out of Django Unchained at the m0vie blog, May 2018.
- Tarantino confesses to The New York Times that he “knew enough” about Weinstein to do more, October 2017.
- Amber Tamblyn talks to Vulture about Tarantino’s relationship to Weinstein, July 2018.
- Chris Butcher at Heavy on the relationship between Rebecca Gayheart and Brett Ratner, November 2017.
- Uma Thurman talks about her accident on the set of Kill Bill with The New York Times, February 2018.
- Tarantino talks to Deadline about Thurman’s accident as “one of the biggest regrets of [his] life”, February 2018.
- Thurman talks to Variety about forgiving Tarantino, February 2018.
- Darren discusses the shadow that the accident casts over Death Proof and Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood at the m0vie blog, August 2019.
- Mike Moh talks with IndieWire about playing Bruce Lee in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, August 2019.
- Sharon Lee talks to The Wrap about her frustration with the portrayal of her father in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- Josh Weiss at Forbes on how Tarantino staged the fight between Bruce Lee and Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- Walter Chaw discusses the portrayal of Bruce Lee’s character in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood at Vulture, August 2019.
- Tarantino confesses to The Independent that his last film might be a horror film, August 2019.
- Jason Guerrasio at Business Insider on how Leonardo DiCaprio was folded into The Great Escape, July 2019.
- Charles Russo at Vice discusses “the Showdown in Oakland”, October 2016.
- IndieWire reports on Burt Reynolds’ contribution to the fight between Bruce Lee and Cliff Booth, August 2019.
- Barbara Ling talks to Polygon about securing the Playboy Mansion for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- Skeme Richards discusses the extended Bounty Law parody in the final issue of Mad Magazine at Nostalgia King, July 2019.
- Tom Richmond talks to the MPAA about creating those caricatures of Rick Dalton for Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, August 2019.
- Dianne Lake, a former member of the Manson Family, reviews Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood for The Daily Beast, August 2019.
- Alex Witman at The Hollywood Reporter on Brandy’s victory at this year’s Palme Dog, May 2019.
- Allison Willmore at Buzzfeed on Quentin Tarantino’s treatment of his female characters, August 2019.
- Tom Murray at Business Insider on the infamous graph of comparing Leonardo DiCaprio’s age to that of his girlfriends, March 2019.
- Ryan Lattanzio at IndieWire on the charm and power of Julia Butters’ performance in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- Julia Butters talks to Vanity Fair about working on Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- Steven Hyden at Uproxx discusses the possibility that the climax of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a drug-fueled hallucination, July 2019.
- Trailer for Tess, 1979.
- Chris Mandle at The Independent reports on Emile Hirsch’s assault on Daniele Bernfeld, August 2015.
- Lindsay Zoladz at The Ringer on the question of where Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood directs its sympathies, July 2019.
- Martin Chilton at The Telegraph on the influence that Hal Needham has on Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, August 2019.
- Nate Jones at Vulture looks at how a supermarket connects Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, A Star is Born and Crossroads, July 2019.
- Hannah Chambers at Cosmopolitan on Tarantino’s foot fetish, July 2019.
- Stephanie Goodman at The New York Times discusses the controversial placement of the ellipsis in the title of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, July 2019.
- You Must Remember Manson by Karina Longworth, May 2017.
- Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill at Amazon, June 2019.
- “Tarantino’s Ninth” by Open Source, August 2019.
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