Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Jay Coyle and Darren Mooney, with special guest Kurt North, 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 Shutter Island.
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: Who’s That Knocking at My Door?, Boxcar Bertha, Cape Fear, Casino, The Aviator, The Departed, Silence. The Summer of Scorsese season offers a trip through his filmography via the IMDb‘s 250.
Federal Marshall Teddy Daniels makes a trip across Boston Harbour to visit the psychiatric institution on Shutter Island, investigating the mysterious disappearance of one of the patients. However, as Teddy probes deeper and deeper into the workings of the facility, it becomes very clear that things are not as they appear.
At time of recording, it was ranked 156th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 13th October 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.
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- Darren Mooney at The Escapist on how Inception and Shutter Island made Leonardo DiCaprio a movie-star for the post-truth age, August 2020.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire on the thematic overlap between Inception and Shutter Island, February 2020.
- Nikki Finke at Deadline reports on Paramount’s decision to move Shutter Island from 2009 into 2010, August 2009.
- Michael Cieply at The New York Times on the various movies shunted from 2008 and 2009 into 2010, December 2009.
- Joe Flint at The Los Angeles Times on Paramount’s decision to back Up in the Air and The Lovely Bones as Oscar contenders ahead of Shutter Island, August 2009.
- Thomas Willett at The Oscar Buzz looks back on the failed awards campaign for The Lovely Bones, October 2018.
- Jake Simpson at The Atlantic reports on the initially mixed reviews for Shutter Island, February 2010.
- Mark Kermode reviews Shutter Island for The Guardian, August 2010.
- Jeannette Catsoulis critiques the pulpiness of Shutter Island at NPR, February 2010.
- Benjamin Mercer at The Atlantic on the slow but gradual reassessment of Shutter Island, June 2010.
- Brandon Gray at Box Office Mojo reports on how Shutter Island gave Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese their biggest opening weekend ever, February 2010.
- Brandon Gray at Box Office Mojo on how Shutter Island became Martin Scorsese’s highest grossing movie worldwide to that point, May 2010.
- Todd Cunningham at The Wrap on the mysteries of the CinemaScore, June 2013.
- Stephanie Marcus at The Huffington Post on the idea of Leonardo DiCaprio’s desperation for an Oscar, February 2016.
- Leonardo DiCaprio talks to Vanity Fair about eating raw bison liver for The Revenant, December 2015.
- Jessica Roy at The Cut on the idea that Leonardo DiCaprio was going to kill himself chasing the Oscar, December 2015.
- Brynley Louise at Film Daily on the sexual abuse allegations against the cast of Baby Driver, June 2020.
- Andrew Gruttadaro at The Ringer explores Leonardo DiCaprio’s obsession with beach volleyball, July 2018.
- Tom Murray at Insider looks at the infamous “Leonardo DiCaprio Girlfriend Graph”, March 2019.
- Bilge Ebiri at Vulture on the hidden inception inside Inception, July 2020.
- Leonardo DiCaprio talks to Roger Ebert at The Chicago Sun Times about making Shutter Island and the American century, February 2010.
- Terry Gross at NPR looks back on the MK ULTRA experiments, September 2019.
- Ashifa Kassam at The Guardian on Canada’s experimentation on its indigenous population, May 2018.
- DeNeen L. Brown at The Washington Post looks back on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, May 2017.
- Marlene Cimons at The Los Angeles Times reports on Bill Clinton’s apologies for radiation experiments conducted on civilians, October 1995.
- Danny Lewis at The Smithsonian Magazine reports on the recruiting of Nazi scientists by American forces after the end of the Second World War, November 2016.
- Annie Jacobsen discusses Operation Accelerated Paperclip in Operation Paperclip, February 2014.
- CNN reports on plans to rename the Hubertus Strughold School of Aerospace Medicine, September 1995.
- Lucette Lagnado at The Wall Street Journal on the renaming of the Hubertus Strughold Award by the Space Medicine Association, December 2012.
- Pat Paterson at Naval History Magazine on the real history of the Gulf of Tonkin, February 2008.
- Danielle Berrin at The Jewish Journal on Shutter Island as a Holocaust movie, February 2010.
- Tom Seymour at Little White Lies on the challenges of portraying the Holocaust in Hollywood movies, April 2010.
- Vadim Rizov at The Independent Film Channel debates the morality of making movies about the Holocaust, March 2010.
- Daniel Kasman at MUBI debates Shutter Island as a B-movie about the Holocaust, March 2010.
- Michael Ovitz discusses how Scorsese almost directed Schindler’s List in Who is Michael Ovitz?, September 2018.
- Sarah Kate Kramer at Code Switch looks at the Nazi Rally held in Madison Square Garden, February 2019.
- Matthew Wills at JStor on how the hydrogen bomb allowed Japan to discuss the atomic bomb, July 2020.
- Melissa Chan at Time on the difference between the atomic bomb and the hydrogen bomb, September 2017.
- Marcelo Gleiser at NPR on the insanity of the bomb, July 2016.
- Bernard Knox at The Los Angeles Times discusses being labelled “prematurely antifascist”, July 2001.
- Allen Ellenzweig at Tablet Magazine on the targetting on “prematurely antifascist” individuals by the House Unamerican Activities Committee, November 2012.
- Goran Blazeski at The Vintage News reports on the labelling and branding of Charlie Chaplin as a communist, November 2016.
- Mary Wood at The University of Virginia on the echoes of McCarthyism during the War on Terror, April 2004.
- Kathleen McClancy in The Journal of Popular Film and Television discusses how Shutter Island filters War on Terror anxieties through the lens of Cold War paranoia, February 2015.
- Dennis Lehane talks to MTV about the ambiguous ending of Shutter Island, March 2010.
- Kurt Andersen writes at The Atlantic about how America lost its mind, September 2017.
- Cheryl Thompson at The Conversation on how Trump exploits nostalgia, November 2020.
- Sam Rosenfeld at The Washington Post on the nostalgia of Joe Biden, June 2019.
- Story Hinckley at The Christian Science Monitor on how nostalgia has come to shape and guide American politics, December 2019.
- Richard Brody at The New Yorker discusses how Scorsese uses the language and conventions of classic Hollywood to explore the fears of classic and modern America, February 2010.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog on the nightmares of repression in Cape Fear, September 2020.
- The film critics at IndieWire debate the merits and the nightmare of “elevated horror”, March 2019.
- Patricia Clarkson talks to The New York Times about working with Scorsese on Shutter Island, August 2010.
- Kevin Slane at The Boston Globe reports on the drive-in screening of Shutter Island on the grounds where it was filmed, August 2020.
- Bill Carter at The New York Times on how ad buys during the Vancouver Olympics helped assure the success of Shutter Island, February 2010.
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