Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This week, a special crossover episode with The Movie Palace Podcast, a film podcast hosted by Carl Sweeney taking a look at the classics of Hollywood’s golden age. Carl suggested a crossover episode taking a look at the list, and particularly some of the classic movies listed on it.
So this week, Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe and King Vidor’s The Wizard of Oz.
After a freak hurricane scoops her home off the ground and deposits her in a vibrant magical land occupied by talking scarecrows and wicked witches, Dorothy Gale must confront a shocking reality: she’s not in Kansas anymore.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 28th September 2019.
- A special podcast episode recorded with Carl. He was a very gracious host.
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- Salman Rushdie writes on The Wizard of Oz as “the authorless text” at The New Yorker, May 1992.
- Moratia Harrod at The Telegraph offers a brief look at the production of The Wizard of Oz, December 2015.
- Roger Clarke at The Independent takes a look at the troubled production history of The Wizard of Oz, June 2008.
- Aljean Harmetz at The New York Times discusses the importance of television to the legacy of The Wizard of Oz, March 1983.
- Ilan Shrira at Psychology Today on The Wizard of Oz as “the most watched film ever”, June 2010.
- Josh Kurp at Uproxx on how Somewhere Over the Rainbow was almost cut from The Wizard of Oz, March 2013.
- Larry Semon’s The Wizard of Oz, 1925.
- David Lynch talks to The Big Issue about what The Wizard of Oz means to him, July 2019.
- Caryn James at The New York Times on Wild at Heart as a successor to The Wizard of Oz, August 1990.
- John Waters reflects on what The Wizard of Oz means to him with Today, January 2011.
- James Cameron cites The Wizard of Oz as an influence on Avatar to Oprah, January 2010.
- Erin Strecker at Entertainment Weekly reports on Rick Polito’s description of The Wizard of Oz, October 2012.
- The Wizardry of Oz by Jay Scarfone and William Stillman at Amazon.com, June 2004.
- Matt Weinstock at The New Yorker reports on the curious and tragic case of the munchkins, July 2018.
- David Mikkelson at Snopes reports on the urban legend of the hanging munchkin in The Wizard of Oz, December 1997.
- David Mikkelson at Snopes reports on the urban legend that one of the wizard’s coats in The Wizard of Oz was owned by L. Frank Baum, July 1997.
- David Mikkelson at Snopes reports on the etymology of “oz”, September 2013.
- Dave Lifton at Ultimate Classic Rock on the synchronicities between Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, March 2018.
- Brian Hutton at The Independent reports on the controversy around charting Ding, Dong The Witch is Dead following the death of Baroness Thatcher, April 2013.
- Michelle Dean at The Nation on the radical feminism of The Wizard of Oz, March 2013.
- Linda Rohrer Paige at The Journal of Popular Film and Television considers the treatment of gender in The Wizard of Oz, Winter 1996.
- From Reverence to Rape by Molly Haskell at University of Chicago Press, 1974.
- “Episode #200”, Comedy Bang Bang, February 2013.
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