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.
This time, a belated Christmas treat. Sergio Pablos and Carlos Martínez López’s Klaus.
Exiled to the remote island of Smeerensberg, postal employee Jesper comes up with an elaborate plan to inspire the locals to write the six thousand letters that he’ll need to earn back his life of luxury. However, Jesper doesn’t count on the ways in which he’ll change the lives of the island’s inhabitants, including a lonely and isolated woodsman named Klaus who makes children’s toys.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 176th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 4th January 2020.
- Klaus at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Ella Morton at Slate on the Catalan “poop log”, December 2013.
- Sergio Pablos talks to Polygon about his career and his work on Despicable Me, November 2019.
- Sergio Pablos talks to Animation World Network about the production history of Klaus, November 2019.
- Carolyn Giardina at The Hollywood Reporter looks at how Klaus come to be developed with Netflix, December 2019.
- Tracy Brown at The Los Angeles Times on the collaboration between Pablos and Netflix on making Klaus, November 2019.
- Gregory Wakeman at The National on how Klaus became Netflix’s first animated original movie, November 2019.
- Alison Herman at The Ringer on Netflix’s plans to conquer Christmas, November 2019.
- Gary Goldstein at The Los Angeles Times on Kurt Russell’s starring turn in The Christmas Chronicles, November 2018.
- Randee Dawn at Today reports that Goldie Hawn will be joining Kurt Russell in the upcoming sequel to The Christmas Chronicles, December 2019.
- Constance Grady at Vox on Netflix’s “summer of love”, October 2018.
- Miles Surrey at The Ringer on the success of Netflix’s “summer of love”, October 2018.
- 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.
- Netflix announces nearly thirty original films on Twitter, January 2020.
- Zoe Kleinman at the BBC reports on the minor controversy around the Netflix twitter account’s jokes about A Christmas Prince, December 2017.
- Lisa Richwine at Reuters reports on the fact that nearly thirty million people watched Klaus on Netflix in its first month, December 2019.
- Mari Ness at Tor looks back on The Princess and the Frog as the end of an era for 2D animation, June 2016.
- Abigail Cain at Artsy on the way in which Eyvind Earle’s backgrounds shaped Sleeping Beauty, May 2017.
- Lucas O. Seastrom at WaltDisney.org on the Sleeping Beauty artwork of Eyvind Earle, May 2014.
- David Sims at The Atlantic on Hollywood’s obsession with origin stories, January 2016.
- Ben Kaye at Consequence of Sound reports on plans for a John McClane origin story, September 2018.
- Wendy Douglas and Precious Adesina at The Telegraph on “elf on the shelf”, December 2019.
- Lorenzo Tanos at Yahoo! reports on Norm Macdonald’s comments about political correctness, November 2018.
- Ian Failes at Befores and Afters on the use of lighting and shading in Klaus, November 2019.
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