Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Doctor Bernice Murphy and Phil Bagnall, 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 week and next week, we are taking a break from our Summer of Scorsese for a Halloween treat. David Fincher’s se7en.
Detective William Somerset is seven days away from retirement, and has just been partnered with a new arrival from outside the city. Detective David Mills has yet to fully adjust to the rules of the urban landscape. However, Somerset’s plans to retire are undercut after a pair of strange deaths point to something sinister simmering below the surface of the city.
At time of recording, it was ranked 20th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 15th 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.
- se7en at The Internet Movie Database.
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- The Guardian reflects on Halloween in the time of COVID, October 2020.
- Ryan Parker at The Hollywood Reporter on Gwyneth Paltrow’s se7en Halloween costume, October 2017.
- The Ringer speculates on “what’s in the box?” in se7en, September 2020.
- CineFix recreate se7en as a piece of 8-bit video gaming, August 2014.
- Amy Taubin at Sight & Sound reflects on the rise and popularity of serial killer narratives in the pop culture of the nineties, November 2017.
- Jessica Murphy at BBC News reflects on the ubiquity of the serial killer in eighties news reports, August 2018.
- Christina Newland at Vice looks back on the fate of the erotic thriller, a nineties genre staple, December 2017.
- Darren Mooney reviews Earthquake Bird for the m0vie blog, November 2019.
- Warner Bros. release a trailer for The Batman, August 2020.
- David Fincher talks to Vulture about filmmaking, October 2020.
- Miles Surrey at The Ringer takes a look back at Alien3, September 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist argues for the bleak nihilism of Alien3, April 2020.
- Ty Burr at Entertaiment Weekly offers a look at both Alien3 and se7en, March 1996.
- Janet Maslin reviews se7en for The New York Times, September 1995.
- David Fincher talks to The New York Times about his early films and establishing himself as a film director, October 1999.
- Every Frame a Painting discusses the work of David Fincher, October 2014.
- Nerdwriter discusses David Fincher’s gaze, October 2017.
- Andrew Kevin Walker talks to Uproxx about the origin and development of se7en, September 2015.
- Andrew Kevin Walker talks to The Hollywood Reporter about how David Fincher shepherded the original ending of se7en through the production process, January 2017.
- C. Molly Smith and Will Robinson at Entertainment Weekly on the haunting power of se7en’s final moments, September 2015.
- Brad Pitt talks to Entertainment Weekly about how he fought to preserve the original ending of se7en, September 2011.
- Brad Pitt talks to The Los Angeles Times about clashes on the set of Legends of the Fall, September 1995.
- Denzel Washington talks to Yahoo! about how he regrets turning down se7en, September 2012.
- Tom Beasley at Yahoo on the behind the scenes production of se7en, September 2020.
- Rebecca Hawkes at The Telegraph takes a look at seven alternate endings to se7en, September 2015.
- Arnold Kopelson talks to Entertainment Weekly about the challenges of preserving the script’s original ending on screen, 4 April 2017.
- Josh Cooley illustrates the ending of se7en as a children’s book, via The Escapist, July 2012.
- Naveed Saleh at Psychology Today looks back on the origin of the seven deadly sins, February 2020.
- Ruth Atkins at RuthAtkins discusses the notebooks used in se7en, September 2017.
- De FilmKrant takes a look at David Fincher’s recurring obsession with fridges, November 2017.
- Kevin Lincoln at Vulture on David Fincher’s fascination with serial killers, November 2017.
- David Fincher talks to The Art of the Title about his opening title sequences, August 2012.
- Susan Sevilla at Vimeo contextualises David Fincher’s opening title sequences within the rich history of cinema, January 2015.
- Kyle Cooper talks to Entertainment Weekly about the development and production of the opening credits of se7en, October 2010.
- Tim Groves at Screening the Past on the influence and legacy of the opening credits of se7en, April 2018.
- Matt Singer at The Dissolve explores David Fincher’s recurring fascination with marriage, September 2014.
- Darius Khondji talks to American Cinematographer about shooting se7en, October 1995.
- Howard Shore reflects on his career for Rhino Insider, April 2018.
- Mike D’Angelo at The A.V. Club on the urban chase sequence in se7en, December 2011.
- Ryan Lambie at Den of Geek on how David Fincher’s directorial technique enhances the claustrophobia of the chase sequence in se7en, September 2019.
- Cooper Hood at ScreenRant on how Brad Pitt’s injury during the chase sequence affected the rest of production, August 2020.
- Leland Orser talks to The San Francisco Gate about working on se7en, September 2013.
- Daniel E. Slotnik eulogisies Michael Massee at The New York Times, October 2016.
- Karina Longworth discusses the short life and tragic death of Brandon Lee on You Must Remember This, December 2014.
- The corpses talk to Entertainment Weekly about working se7en, October 1995.
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