Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with guests Alex Towers and Luke Dunne, 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, Rian Johnson’s Knives Out.
The apparent suicide of noted mystery author Harlan Thrombley attracts the attention of consulting gentleman detective Benoit Blanc. Interviewing the deceased man’s family, Blanc finds a nest of vipers hiding in plain sight and comes to suspect that Harlan has been victim of murder most foul.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 1st February 2020.
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- Deadpool director David Leitch talks to Fandango about using alternate jokes for comedy trailers, April 2018.
- Julia Alexander at Polygon on how the trailers for Infinity War disguised key plot developments, May 2018.
- Rebecca Rubin at Variety on the box office success of Knives Out, February 2020.
- Geoff Boucher at Deadline publishes the script for Knives Out, December 2019.
- Rian Johnson talks to The Boston Globe about how Knives Out came together, November 2019.
- Rian Johnson talks to The A.V. Club about the logistics of making a film like Knives Out, November 2019.
- Rian Johnson talks to Vulture about writing Knives Out as a follow-up to The Last Jedi, November 2019.
- Anthony D’Alessandro at Deadline on the international box office performance of Knives Out, January 2020.
- Britt Hayes at birth.movies.death on the relationship between Knives Out and The Rise of Skywalker, December 2019.
- Piya Sinha-Roy and Rebecca Keegan at The Hollywood Reporter on the inevitable Knives Out sequel, January 2020.
- Darren Mooney debates whether Knives Out really needs a sequel at The Escapist, February 2020.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on Lionsgate’s franchise success with John Wick and Knives Out, January 2020.
- Daniel Benneworth-Gray on Twitter on how The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo predicted Knives Out, January 2020.
- Keith Staskiewicz at Entertainment Weekly on the inclusion of Enya’s Orinoco Flow in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, December 2011.
- Rian Johnson discusses the importance of challenging fans rather than merely servicing them with IndieWire, December 2019.
- Paul Schrader discusses his theory of “narrative exhaustion” at The Guardian, June 2009.
- Brad Wilke at Flip the Media on storytelling in the age of Vine, February 2013.
- Alec Bojalad at Den of Geek on the success and strength of “creepypasta” as internet era narratives, August 2018.
- Jia Tolentino at The New Yorker on how services like TikTok are altering our understanding of narrative and storytelling, September 2019.
- Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman talk to Wired about embracing Quibi as the future of narrative, January 2020.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog on the embrace of accelerated and deconstructive narratives in the work of Steven Moffat, January 2019.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine on the mainstreaming of meta self-aware narratives in contemporary pop culture, December 2019.
- Rian Johnson talks to MSN about how Knives Out is “a rollercoaster, not a crossword puzzle”, November 2019.
- Hanh Nguyen at IndieWire asks critics to name their favourite murder mystery television shows ever, February 2017.
- Joy Swift talks to iNews about inventing the murder mystery weekend, December 2019.
- Rian Johnson talks to Deadline about modernising the murder mystery template with Knives Out, December 2019.
- Christine Ro at the BBC on how Agatha Christie shaped the way that the world sees Britain, September 2018.
- Joan Acocella at The New Yorker offers a brief introduction to the world of Agatha Christie, August 2010.
- Keith Humphreys at The Reality-Based Community on Columbo as class warfare, June 2011.
- Alison Willmore at Vulture on class warfare as a theme running through this awards season, November 2019.
- Anand Giridharadas at The New York Times on Jerry Seinfeld and inequality, April 2014.
- Darren Mooney at Escapist Magazine on the shifting portrayal of the rich as corrupt and inept in movies like Knives Out, December 2019.
- Don Johnson talks to Vulture about his career renaissance and appearing in Knives Out, November 2019.
- Kate Clark at Tech Crunch on the success of Joseph Gordon Levitt’s HitRecord, January 2019.
- Dustin Rowles at Pajiba on whatever happened to Joseph Gordon Levitt, September 2019.
- Rian Johnson talks to Yahoo! about the politics of Knives Out, November 2019.
- Brian Resnick at Vox on fear of demographic displacement as a motivating factor in Trumpism, January 2017.
- Charles M. Blow at The New York Times on the cultural anxiety around demographic displacement, June 2019.
- William H. Frey at The Brookings Institute reports on projections that the United States will become a minority majority country by 2045, March 2018.
- Abby Joseph Cohen at Yahoo! on how the United States economy needs immigrants, December 2019.
- Dominic Gilbert at The Telegraph on how the NHS still depends on immigrant nurses after Brexit, January 2020.
- Jamie Doward and Harry Robertson at The Observer on the importance of migrant labour to the United Kingdom, July 2017.
- Valerie Volcovici at Reuters reports on how coal miners are refusing to retrain during the Trump administration, November 2017.
- Molly McHugh at The Ringer on the weaponisation of “learn to code”, January 2019.
- Jamie Lee Curtis talks to The New Yorker about her life and career, and working on Knives Out, December 2019.
- Ana de Armas talks to The Hollywood Reporter about her initial disinterest in Knives Out, November 2019.
- PR Newswire reports on Eva Green’s “sleep story”, November 2019.
- Michael Shannon talks to RogerEbert.com about Trump voters, November 2016.
- Michael Shannon talks to MetroNews about how to deal with relatives who voted for Trump, November 2016.
- Bettina Makalintal at Vice on the paradox of rich people who love Parasite, January 2020.
- Michelle Rennex at Junkee on how the wealthy fans of Parasite refuse to learn from it, February 2020.
- Tricia Ennis at SyFy Wire on the optimism of Knives Out, December 2019.
- Yohana Desta at Vanity Fair on the ending of Knives Out, December 2019.
- Monica Costello at The New York Times critiques the flippant optimism of Knives Out, November 2019.
- Rafael Motamayor at /Film discusses the immigration politics of Knives Out, December 2019.
- Rachel Syme at The New Yorker investigates the curious case of Ransom Thrombley’s sweater, December 2019.
- Deirdre McQuillan at The Irish Times reports on the breakout success of Chris Evans’ Knives Out sweater, December 2019.
- Chris Evans confesses to People that he stole his wardrobe from Knives Out, December 2019.
- Steve Pond at The Wrap reports on the success of Knives Out at the Costume Designers Guild Awards, January 2020.
- Caspar Salmon at the BBC on the debate around how the Oscars award their costume prizes, January 2020.
- David Crank talks to Variety about finding the perfect house for Knives Out, November 2019.
- David Crank discusses the set and production design of Knives Out with Deadline, November 2019.
- David Schlesinger talks to the Set Decorators Society of America about giving the Thrombley house a sense of personality, November 2019.
- Nathan Johnson talks to Variety about creating a soundtrack for Knives Out, December 2019.
- Rian Johnson talks to The Los Angeles Times about naming Knives Out for a Radiohead song, September 2019.
- Rob Harvilla at The Ringer on the widespread use of Exit Music For a Film, December 2016.
- Every Frame a Painting on why Hollywood blockbusters all sound alike, September 2016.
- Rian Johnson talks to Film School Rejects about choosing Sweet Virginia to close out Knives Out, December 2019.
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