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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Grace Duffy and Rioghnach Ní Ghrioghair, 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.

So this week, Victor Fleming, George Cukor and Sam Wood’s Gone With the Wind.

A tale of revolution, romance and redemption set against the backdrop of the Civil War, Gone With the Wind remains one of the most sweeping epics ever produced by the studio system. The decades-long love affair between Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler unfolds against the backdrop of the fall and rise of Scarlett’s family fortune.

At time of recording, it was ranked 165th on the list of the best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 29th September 2019.
• Gone With the Wind at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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• Watch a proof of concept for Rioghnach’s film Neon.
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• Grace recommends BBC Good Food‘s nut loaf recipe.
• Rioghnach recommends Hemsley and Hemsley’s nut loaf recipe, December 2012.
• Gavin Lambert at The Atlantic offers the first in a three-part account of the production of Gone With the Wind, February 1973.
• Gavin Lambert at The Atlantic offers the second in a three-part account of the production of Gone With the Wind, February 1973.
• Gavin Lambert at The Atlantic offers the third in a three-part account of the production of Gone With the Wind, February 1973.
• Stanley Kauffmann at The Atlantic on the enduring populist appeal of Gone With the Wind, March 1973.
• Richard Schickel at The Atlantic argues that Gone With the Wind is over-praised, March 1973.
• Leslie Przybylek at Making History on the history of the Selznick family, September 2018.
• Philip V. Allingham at The Victorian Web on the myriad adaptations of David Copperfield, January 2011.
• Lou Lumenick at The New York Post argues that Gone With the Wind should go the way of the Confederate flag, June 2015.
• Cass R. Sunstein at The Atlantic offers a defense of the politics of Gone With the Wind, July 2015.
• Susan King at The Los Angeles Times on the lasting legacy of Gone With the Wind, December 2014.
• Medora Perkerson interviews Margaret Mitchell on The Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine, July 1936.
• Margaret Scott discusses the feminism of Margaret Mitchell at HeadStuff, January 2016.
• Tom Ryan discusses the feminist readings of Gone With the Wind for The Sydney Morning Herald, July 2009.
• Tom Kuntz at The New York Times on the marital rape in Gone With the Wind, February 1995.
• Leonard J. Leff at The Atlantic on the publication and development of Gone With the Wind, December 1999.
• Ryan Vlastelica at The A.V. Club on the complicated politics of Gone With the Wind, April 2015.
• Max Boot at Commentary Magazine on the gradual rehabilitation of the Confederacy in popular imagination, June 2015.
• Carrie Hagen at Smithsonian Magazine on how the South’s embrace of Gone With the Wind was crucial to its success, December 2014.
• Frank Pallotta at CNN on how Gone With the Wind became America’s biggest blockbuster, December 2014.
• Ed Kilgore at New York Magazine on how Gone With the Wind became another neo-Confederate monument, August 2017.
• Molly Haskell discusses the enduring appeal of Gone With the Wind at The Guardian, May 2009.
• Kathryn Hughes at The Guardian discusses Molly Haskall’s efforts to contextualise Gone With the Wind, May 2009.
• Dominic Patten and Erik Pedersen discuss Olivia De Havilland’s lawsuit against Ryan Murphy’s Feud at Deadline, October 2018.
• Scarlett’s Women by Helen Taylor at Amazon.com, 1989.
• Stephen Marche at Esquire on the racism of Gone With the Wind, September 2014.
• Double FacePalm juxtaposes Gone With the Wind and 12 Years a Slave, April 2014.
• Seth Abramovitch at The Hollywood Reporter on the irony of Hattie McDaniel’s Oscars win, February 2015.
• You Must Remember This looks at the life and career of Hattie McDaniel, October 2019.
• Matthew Bernstein talks with Emory News Centre about the segregated premiere of Gone With the Wind, November 2014.
• Ronald E. Franklin at Reel Rundown on how Clark Gable tried to desegragate the production of Gone With the Wind, December 2017.
• Lynn Yaeger at Vogue celebrates the life and career of Butterfly McQueen, January 2017.
• Wayne Crenshaw at The Macon Telegraph on Susan Myrick’s work on Gone With the Wind, November 2016.
• Leonard J. Leff at The Atlantic on the racial politics involved in the production of Gone With the Wind, December 1999.
• Jeff Labrecque at Entertainment Weekly on how and why the Academy Award chose to celebrate the 75th anniversary of The Wizard of Oz rather than Gone With the Wind, January 2014.
• Bethonie Butler at The Washington Post discusses Ava DuVernay’s documentary 13th, October 2016.
• Kevin Rashid Johnson argues in The Guardian that prison labour is modern slavery, August 2018.
• Molly Haskall discusses race and gender roles in Gone With the Wind with NPR, March 2009.
• Taylor Jasmine at Literary Ladies Guide on “the Search for Scarlett”, May 2017.
• Samantha Drake at Country Living on Vivien Leigh winning the role of Scarlett O’Hara, December 2017.
• Richard Brody at The New Yorker on the legacy of George Cukor, December 2013.
• Gregg Kilday at The Los Angeles Times on George Cukor and “the Celluloid Closet”, December 1991.
• Farran Smith Nehme at Criterion on George Cukor’s way with women, May 2019.
• Geoff Andrew at the BFI on the difficulty in tracing a single director of Gone With the Wind, April 2019.
• Kate Watson-Smyth reports on the rumours about “frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” at The Independent, May 1999.
• Dennis Brown at The Los Angeles Times on long-running efforts to produce a sequel to Gone With the Wind, December 1989.
• Elvis Mitchell interviews Lulu Wang for The Treatment, August 2019.
• BearElTio offers a harmonica cover of the Jurassic Park theme, November 2015.
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