Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Phil Bagnall and Jay Coyle, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.
Sitting alone in an older retirement home, former gangster Frank Sheeran recounts a life story that spans the second half of the twentieth century, charting a life lived on the margins of greatness but also at the outskirts of decency.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 158th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
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- Recorded 15th December 2019.
- The Irishman at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Rob Harvilla at The Ringer on the unreasonable brilliance of Joe Pesci, November 2019.
- Violet Lucca at The New York Times on the restrained genius of Joe Pesci’s work in The Irishman, November 2019.
- Dom Nero at Esquire takes a look inside Joe Pesci’s music career, November 2019.
- Ryan Parker at The Hollywood Reporter on Joe Pesci’s five-word Oscar acceptance speech, February 2016.
- Oliver Gettle at The Los Angeles Times on Paramount’s support of Martin Scorsese’s Silence, July 2014.
- Pamela McClintock at The Hollywood Reporter on the box office failure of Martin Scorsese’s Silence, January 2017.
- Ryan Faughnder at The Los Angeles Times on the spectacular bombing of Paramount’s Monster Trucks, January 2017.
- Brooks Barnes at The New York Times on the changing of the guard at Paramount Pictures following the failure of Silence and Monster Trucks, March 2017.
- Ryan Lattanzio at IndieWire on the deals that brought The Irishman to Netflix, October 2019.
- Brandon Katz at Observer on Netflix’s $500m investment in their blockbuster slate, July 2019.
- Brandon Katz at Observer on Netflix’s escalation of the content wars, March 2019.
- Ella Kemp at NME on Martin Scorsese’s next project, Killers of the Flower Moon, December 2019.
- Brandon Katz at Observer on the question of whether The Irishman could have been a conventional box office success, November 2019.
- Sarah Whitten at CNBC wonders whether Netflix would have been tempted by a conventional release model for The Irishman, November 2019.
- Sharon Waxman at The Wrap expresses fears that disruptors like Megan Ellison may distort the movie industry, October 2012.
- Nicole Sperling at The New York Times reports on external estimates of viewership of The Irishman, December 2019.
- Julia Alexander at The Verge on the elasticity of those viewership figures of The Irishman, December 2019.
- Alexander Dunerfors Kardelo suggests the best way to watch The Irishman as a miniseries on Twitter, November 2019.
- Martin Scorsese urges viewers (via The Guardian) not to watch The Irishman on their phone, December 2019.
- Martin Scorsese talks to Entertainment Weekly about why he never considered turning The Irishman into a miniseries, November 2019.
- Brobible offers a thirty-eight second supercut of Al Pacino saying “cocksucker” on Twitter, December 2019.
- Iana Murray at GQ on Jimmy Hoffa’s obsession with ice cream in The Irishman, December 2019.
- Sean Hollister at The Verge reports on Netflix’s decision to split The Hateful Eight into a miniseries, May 2019.
- Jackie Strause at The Hollywood Reporter on Netflix’s production of Bandersnatch, May 2019.
- Martin Scorsese assures Entertainment Weekly that he won’t ever release a director’s cut via Netflix, October 2019.
- The CineRanter offers an explainer video for the rings in The Irishman, November 2019.
- Tony Sokol at Den of Geek offers an explanation of the ring in The Irishman, November 2019.
- Stellene Volandes at Town and Country Magazine on the appeal of pinkie rings in The Irishman, November 2019.
- Shirley Li at The Atlantic discusses how computer-generated actors are taking over Hollywood, December 2019.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine on how this technology is reducing actors down to simple intellectual property, November 2019.
- Quinn Myers at Mel Magazine asks dentists to explain why Sonic’s human teeth are so freaky and unsettling, May 2019.
- Anthony Breznican at Vanity Fair on the use of deaging technology in The Irishman, December 2019.
- Bill Desowitz at IndieWire reports on the use of deaging technology in The Irishman, December 2019.
- Iana Murray at GQ on how the special effects that were so important to The Irishman signal a revolution in Hollywood, December 2019.
- Domenick Lomardozzi talks to Business Insider about his physical transformation in The Irishman, December 2019.
- Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino discuss their careers with GQ, November 2019.
- Thelma Schoonmaker talks to Eyes on Cinema about her craft and technique as an editor, December 2014.
- Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese discuss life in the editing room (via Eyes on Cinema), September 2014.
- Michael Bay’s Got Milk? commercial, 1993.
- Every Frame is a Painting discusses Michael Bay’s distinctive “Bayhem” style of editing, July 2014.
- Dani DiPlacido at Forbes on The Irishman as a study of the banality of evil, December 2019.
- Zach Schonfeld at The Ringer on the use of In the Still of the Night in The Irishman, November 2019.
- Adam Nayman at The Ringer on the intertextuality of The Irishman, November 2019.
- Christina Newland at BBC Culture on The Irishman as Martin Scorsese’s farewell to the gangster genre, November 2019.
- Nigel Andrews at The Financial Times on Scorsese’s quartet of mob movies, November 2019.
- Chris Barsanti at Eyes Wide Open on The Irishman as Scorsese’s answer to JFK, November 2019.
- Katherine Narducci talks to Vanity Fair about the use of women in The Irishman, December 2019.
- Anna Paquin talks to Uproxx about the debate over Peggy’s silence in The Irishman, November 2019.
- Scorsese discusses the distance that the female characters in The Irishman keep from the drama with IndieWire, October 2019.
- Jane Rosenthal talks to Deadline about The Irishman as an interrogation of toxic masculinity, September 2019.
- Alyssa Rosenberg at The Washington Post objects to the count of a woman’s lines as a measure of a film’s feminism, November 2019.
- Ashley Clark at Reverse Shot on the use of race in Taxi Driver, September 2014.
- Stephanie Zacharek at Time on The Irishman as a study of masculinity, October 2019.
- Ann Hornaday at The Washington Post on The Irishman and other awards season films as a study of contemporary masculinity, November 2019.
- Filmpjekijkencom presents Joe Pesci and Robert DeNiro as Bert and Ernie, December 2011.
- Dan Piepenbring at Bon Appétit discusses the use of food and beverage in Scorsese films, December 2013.
- Zach Johnston at Uproxx offers the best chili dog recipe from The Irishman, December 2019.
- Tarpley Hitt at The Daily Beast reports on the conspiracy theories around the mob’s possible involvement with the assassination of JFK, December 2019.
- Robert DeNiro talks to The Daily Beast about the conspiracy theories that populate The Irishman, November 2019.
- Julia Belluz at Vox reports on Robert DeNiro’s involvement with the anti-vax movement, February 2017.
- Scorsese admits to IndieWire that he actually cut some of Sheeran’s more outlandish claims from The Irishman, September 2019.
- Bill Tonelli at Slate on the many lies of The Irishman, August 2019.
- Bill Tonelli responds at Slate to criticisms from the publisher of I Hear You Paint Houses, August 2019.
- Jessica McBride at Heavy on the truth behind the fish scene, November 2019.
- Angela Serratore at Smithsonian Magazine on the true history behind The Irishman, November 2019.
- Nicholas Gage at The New York Times reports on the murder of Joe Gallo, May 1972.
- The Hoffex Memo, January 1976.
- Vince Wade at The Daily Beast on what most likely really happened to Jimmy Hoffa, November 2019.
- Israel Daramola at The Ringer on The Irishman as a rare study of the power of blue collar organised crime, December 2019.
- Stephen Graham talks to The Independent about working with Pacino and DeNiro on The Irishman, November 2019.
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