Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with guests Graham Day and Bríd Martin, 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, Boon Joon Ho’s Gisaengchung.
Drafted in to tutor the daughter of a rich South Korean family, the lower-class Kim Ki-woo enacts a cunning plan that will allow his entire family to infiltrate the lavish Park household. However, things quickly spiral out of control, leading to unpredictable chaos and disaster.
At time of recording, it was ranked the 34th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 15th December 2019.
- Parasite at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on the success of Parasite at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2019.
- K. Austin Collins at Vanity Fair on the international success of Parasite, October 2019.
- Yohana Desta at Vanity Fair on the record-breaking specialty box office of Parasite, October 2019.
- Jeremy Fuster at The Wrap on the United States box office success of Parasite, November 2019.
- Anthony D’Alessandro at Deadline on the canny American marketing of Parasite, November 2019.
- Bong Joon Ho appears on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote Parasite, December 2019.
- Kyle Buchanan at The New York Times on the early Oscars success of Parasite, December 2019.
- Nate Jones at Vulture on whether Parasite could actually win the Best Picture Oscar, December 2019.
- Bong Joon Ho discusses his battles with Harvey Weinstein over Snowpiercer with IndieWire, October 2019.
- Bong Joon Ho talks to Vulture about his career, his influences and his outlook, October 2019.
- Bong Joon Ho discusses his life and career with Anthem Magazine, April 2017.
- Andrew Pulver at The Guardian reports on Netflix’s investment in Bong Joon Ho following Snowpiercer, November 2015.
- Bong Joon Ho talks to Variety about working with Netflix on Okja, May 2017.
- Kaitlyn Tiffany at The Verge argues for Okja as “the first great Netflix movie”, June 2017.
- Nicole Sperling at Vanity Fair on Okja as the cornerstone of Netflix’s first Oscars campaign, November 2017.
- Bettina Makalintal at Vice on the paradox of the super wealthy who love Parasite, January 2020.
- Bong Joon Ho talks to Screen Daily about his awards season hopes for Parasite, January 2020.
- Guy Lodge at The Guardian on how Parasite became the most talked about foreign language film of the year, November 2019.
- Bong Joon Ho talks to GQ about making a more intimate and local film after Snowpiercer and Okja, October 2019.
- Brian X. Chen at The New York Times on the specific South Korean context of Parasite, October 2019.
- The Korean Film Archive, YouTube, June 2019.
- The Housemaid, 1960.
- Lewis Lee at LewisLee.net on the tragedy of the Taiwanese Cake Shop, October 2019.
- Nicola Smith at The Telegraph on the grades scandal sweeping through South Korean politics, September 2019.
- Choe Sang-Hun at The New York Times reports on the educational and corruption crisis unfolding in South Korea, October 2019.
- Lee Hyo-won at The Hollywood Reporter on the success of Extreme Job at the South Korean box office, March 2019.
- Valerie Strauss at The Washington Post on “summer learning loss”, July 2019.
- Yong Zhao at The New Internationalist on the influence of the Asian education system on western education policy, September 2017.
- Thessaly La Force at The New York Times on the anger and rage that defines so much of modern East Asian cinema, November 2019.
- J. W. Barlament at Medium on the overlap between Stoicism and Taoism, November 2019.
- Tim Ferris presents The Tao of Senseca, July 2017.
- Florentina Heroiu at the Asia-Europe Foundation on the Korean concept of “Han”, September 2012.
- Bong Joon Ho talks to The Atlantic about the use of Park Myung-hoon’s eyes in Parasite, October 2019.
- Bong Joon Ho talks The New York Times through the “Mission: Impossible” sequence in Parasite, October 2019.
- Bong Joon Ho talks to Polygon, discussing the importance of translation in his work, October 2019.
- Bong Joon Ho talks to The Los Angeles Times about the need to get past the “inch-tall-barrier of subtitles”, January 2020.
- Bong Joon Ho talks to NPR about the contemporary resonance of Parasite, December 2019.
- Alison Willmore at Vulture on the class rage simmering through Parasite, Knives Out and Joker, November 2019.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine on the shifting portrayal of the rich as clueless in class warfare movies, December 2019.
- Rianne Houghton at Digital Spy reports on Bob Iger’s jokes about buying James Bond, December 2019.
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