Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Andrew Max Tohline, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
So this week, Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr.
In a small town, a movie projectionist (and janitor) falls in love with a beautiful woman. He dreams of ways in which he might win her love, turning to detective fiction and the silver screen for inspiration. However, sometimes the boundaries between reality and fantasy are more porous than they might appear.
At time of recording, it was ranked 198th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 11th November 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.
- Note: Darren accidentally and incorrectly indentifies Ward Crane as the star of The Shriek of Araby. We apologise for this error.
- Sherlock Jr. at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB Top 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr., 1924.
- Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. with soundtrack by The Club Foot Orchestra.
- Michael Hiltzik at The Los Angeles Times on the arrival of Sherlock Jr. into the public domain, January 2018.
- Andrew Max Tohline writes about tracking the IMDb 250 at Bright Lights Film Journal, January 2020.
- NPR reports on the strong and divisive reaction to The Help, August 2011.
- Wesley Morris at Grantland discusses the incredible pop cultural impact of Forrest Gump, July 2014.
- ABC News names Forrest Gump as the best Best Picture winner of all time, February 2014.
- Noel Murray on the IMAX re-release of Forrest Gump at The Dissolve, June 2014.
- Entertainment Weekly on the still-polarising nature of Forrest Gump, January 2004.
- Brandon Griggs at CNN on the challenges of reading and interpreting Forrest Gump, July 2014.
- Darren Mooney at the m0vie blog on the question of irony within Forrest Gump, June 2018.
- Bong Joon-ho talks to Vulture about the Oscars as a “local” film festival, October 2019.
- Noel Murray, Keith Phipps, Nathan Rabin and Scott Tobias discuss Sherlock Jr. at The Dissolve, April 2014.
- Matthew Jarron introduces Sherlock Jr. at Dundee Contemporary Arts, June 2020.
- Buster Keaton’s One Week, 1920.
- Jesse Goodman at One Room With a View celebrates One Week, September 2020.
- David B. Pearson on the production of Sherlock Jr., December 2014.
- Film and the Dream Screen: A Sleep and a Forgetting by Robert T. Eberwein, July 2014.
- Anthony Lane at The New Yorker on the parallel emergence of cinema and dream analysis, September 2006.
- Jonah Lehrer at Wired discusses the neuroscience behind Inception, July 2010.
- Oliver Chiang at Forbes on the science of Inception, July 2010.
- David Bordwell at Observations on Film Art on models of the mind and psychoanalysis in watching and processing film imagery, May 2012.
- Laura Rascaroli at Kinema on the history of the dream metaphor in cinema, Fall 2002.
- Keith Phipps at The A.V. Club on Sherlock Jr. as a celebration of cinema, October 2010.
- David Johansson at Silent Film on Sherlock Jr. as a movie about movies, December 2009.
- Marion Meade at The Washington Post discusses Buster Keaton as an incredibly technical filmmaker, October 1995.
- Matthew Dessem at The Dissolve offers a brief introduction to the writer Clyde Bruckman, April 2014.
- Nick Boozang at Medium on the artfulness of Buster Keaton’s comedy, September 2018.
- Noel Murray at The Dissolve on the boxes and lines of Sherlock Jr., April 2014.
- Robert Neumark Jones talks to Broadway World about the art of farce comedy, February 2017.
- Alex von Tunzelmann looks back on Queen Christina for The Guardian, September 2008.
- F. Richard Jones’ The Shriek of Araby, 1923.
- John Emerson and Christy Cabanne’s The Mystery of the Leaping Fish, 1916.
- Paul Ayers talks to The Los Angeles Times about the use of Los Angeles locations in Sherlock Jr., March 2019.
- Pamela Hutchinson at Silent London writes about the influence of silent cinema on the John Wick franchise, February 2017.
- Pamela Hutchinson at The Guardian looks back on the influence of silent film actors on stuntwork, September 2015.
- John Slaymaker at Little White Lies looks back on the Jackass trilogy and its ties to Buster Keaton, August 2017.
- Vincent Fuentes at Cinema et Cetera charts the evolution of physical comedy from Buster Keaton to Jackass, May 2020.
- Karina Longworth discusses Buster Keaton’s move to MGM at You Must Remember This, September 2015.
- Peter Bradshaw at The Guardian celebrates the stuntwork insanity of Steamboat Bill, September 2015.
- Armando Iannucci celebrates the legacy of Buster Keaton in screen comedy in The Irish Times, March 2006.
- Pie and Chase: Gag, Spectacle and Narrative in Slapstick Comedy in Classical Hollywood Comedy by Donald Crafton, 1995.
- Karina Longworth discusses the story of Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle on You Must Remember This, July 2018.
- Imogen Sara Smith at Silent Film looks at the career collaborations between Buster Keaton and Roscoe Arbuckle, 2019.
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