Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Jay Coyle and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, continuing our Summer of Scorsese season, Martin Scorsese’s Kundun.
Martin Scorsese is one of the defining directors in American cinema, with a host of massively successful (and cult) hits that have shaped and defined cinema across generations: New York, New York, Raging Bull, The Colour of Money, Goodfellas, Casino, Shutter Island, The Irishman. The Summer of Scorsese season offers a trip through his filmography via the IMDb‘s 250.
The fourteenth Dalai Lama navigates the complicated web of faith and politics at a highly volatile time in the history of Tibet, meditating on both his divine responsibilities and the looming threat of Chinese intervention as the world changes around him.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 1st September 2020.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Kundun at The Internet Movie Database.
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- Ilana Kaplan at Billboard reports on Philip Glass’ eightieth birthday benefit for Tibet, March 2017.
- Philip Glass talks to The Independent about working with Martin Scorsese on Kundun, March 1998.
- Matthew Sweet reviews Kundun for The Independent, April 1998.
- Roger Ebert reviews Kundun for The Chicago Sun Times, January 1998.
- Matt Zoller Seitz writes at Vulture about Disney’s locking away of its cinematic library, including the films produced by Fox, November 2019.
- Akiva Gottlieb at The Los Angeles Times on the challenges of holding on to important media in an increasingly digital age, November 2018.
- Rick Lyman at The New York Times looks at the production of both Kundun and Seven Years in Tibet, September 1997.
- Massoud Hayoun at Pacific Standard on Hollywood’s brief fixation on Tibet, March 2017.
- Bernard Weinraub at The New York Times on the controversy surrounding revelations about the protagonist’s Nazi past in Seven Years in Tibet, June 1997.
- Bernard Weinraub at The New York Times reports on China’s initial response to Disney’s producing of Kundun, November 1996.
- Robert W. Welkos and Rone Tempest at The Los Angeles Times on the increasingly complicated relationship between Hollywood and China, September 1997.
- Robert W. Welkos and Maggie Farley report on China’s response to movies like Kundun in The Los Angeles Times, October 1997.
- Maggie Farley reports at The Los Angeles Times on how Kundun was banned from screening in Hong Kong, November 1997.
- The Irish Times reports on the hiring of Henry Kissinger by Disney to smooth over relations with the Chinese, October 1997.
- Hongmei Yu at Asia Network Exchange charts the evolution of Disney’s relationship with China from Kundun to Mulan, Fall 2014.
- Jim Harrington at Palo Alto Online reports on the underwhelming box office of Kundun, April 1998.
- James Tager at PEN America reports on how Hollywood has grown to increasingly accommodate China in the films it produces, August 2020.
- Laura Mannering at The American Foreign Press reports on the Chinese government’s practice of “killing the chicken to scare the monkey”, November 2018.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist discusses how Disney attempted to tailor their live action Mulan movie for China, September 2020.
- Darren Mooney on YouTube on Disney’s desire to break into the Chinese market, September 2020.
- Rebecca Ford at The Hollywood Reporter on the importance of the live action Mulan remake to Disney’s relationship with China, February 2020.
- Brooks Barnes and Amy Qin at The New York Times on the controversy around Disney’s appeasement of China with the live action Mulan, September 2020.
- Martin Scorsese talks to Film Comment about making Kundun, January-February 1998.
- Pankaj Mishra at The New York Times writes on the possibility that Tenzin Gyatso might be the last Dalai Lama, December 2015.
- Helen T. Verongos reviews The Last Dalai Lama? for The New York Times, July 2017.
- John Dart at The Los Angeles Times reports on the controversy around The Last Temptation of Christ, August 1988.
- Charles Bramesco at The Guardian looks back on The Last Temptation of Christ, August 2018.
- Daniel Imwalle at Franciscan Media on Scorsese’s preoccupation with faith and religion, September 2019.
- Thelma Schoonmaker talks to The Huffington Post about the differences in editting Goodfellas and Kundun, January 2014.
- Alex von Tunzelmann examines the real history of Kundun for The Guardian, December 2008.
- Lobsang Sangay at The Guardian on Britain’s historical relationship to China, October 2016.
- Peter Goff at The Irish Times on how China is already planning to usurp the role of Dalai Lama on the death of Tenzin Gyatso, September 2019.
- James Griffiths at CNN reports on China’s claims about the Panchen Lama, the second most important figure in Buddhism, May 2020.
- Derek Elley at Variety reviews Red River Valley, June 1997.
- John Sudworth at the BBC on the production of the Chinese epic The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon, December 2016.
- Peter Rainer at Christian Science Monitor on the spirituality and religion that shape Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, December 2019.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire on Terrence Malick’s enduring fandom of Zoolander, March 2017.
- Tim Greiving at The Washington Post on the debate around the Best Editing Oscar, March 2019.
- Garth Ginsberg at Midpoint Blog on the debate around how the Academy Awards recognise cinematography, April 2018.
- Roger Deakins talks to Rotten Tomatoes about how he shoots his films to make them so visually distinct, January 2020.
- Martin Scorsese talks to The Orlando Sentinel about the making of Kundun and the passing of his mother, January 1998.
- Martin Scorsese talks to Entertainment Weekly about the passing of his father during the production of The Age of Innocence, September 1993.
- Steve Pond at The Washington Post on Martin Scorsese’s use of computer-generated imagery to bring Casino to life, August 1994.
- Rebecca Alter at Vulture on Scorsese’s “thirst trap” holiday selfies, August 2020.
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