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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Áine O’Connor, 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, Damián Szifron’s Relatos salvajes.

Six stories from modern day Argentina explore themes of violence and revenge, of anger and aggression, and of what happens when people stop behaving in the way that society expects them to and start indulging their wilder impulses.

At time of recording, it was ranked 178th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show notes:

• Recorded 22th April 2021.
• 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.
• Wild Tales at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB Top 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Follow Áine on Twitter.
• Read Áine’s guide to streaming during self-isolation at The Sunday Independent, March 2020.
• Ricardo Darín talks to Screen Daily about his career and his plans, July 2016.
• Agustin Mango at The Hollywood Reporter reports on Ricardo Darín receiving an honourary Platino Award, June 2016.
• Variety reports on the best (and buzziest) films at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2014.
• Rosslyn Hyams at RFI reports on the international slate of films at the Cannes Film Festival, April 2014.
• Catherine Shoard at The Guardian reports on Winter Sleep winning the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2014.
• Mike D’Angelo at The Dissolve contemplates what Wild Tales was doing in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, May 2014.
• A.A. Dowd at The A.V. Club compares the reception of Pulp Fiction at the Cannes Film Festival to that of Wild Tales, August 2014.
• Barbara Scharres at RogerEbert.com reports on a day of screenings at Cannes that went from Winter Sleep to Wild Tales, May 2014.
• Chaz Ebert and Matt Fagerholm at RogerEbert.com discuss the reaction of Cannes audiences to Wild Tales, June 2015.
• Agustin Mango at The Hollywood Reporter reports on the box office success of Wild Tales in the Argentinian market, August 2014.
• Larry Rohter at The New York Times reports on the cultural impact of Wild Tales in Argentina, February 2015.
• Damián Szifron talks to The New York Times about how he wrote Wild Tales, February 2015.
• Damián Szifron talks to the BFI about how and why he made Wild Tales, April 2015.
• Nicholas Barber at The Guardian discusses the return of the anthology film, March 2015.
• The A.V. Club provides a list of their favourite anthology films, June 2016.
• Ernest Hemmingway writes about the art of the short story for The Paris Review, Spring 1981.
• Kareem Sheikh at Vancouver International Film Festival discusses the short film as an art form unto itself, September 2017.
• La Capital reports on the debate that Wild Tales inspired within Argentinian society, September 2014.
• Uki Goñi at Time reports on the tensions simmering in Argentina over the legacy of Perón, February 2011.
• Tom Hennigan at The Irish Times reports on tensions in Argentina over a potential oil find in the Falklands Islands, March 2012.
• The BBC reports at outbreaks of riots and attacks at Argentinian train stations over delays at rush hour, May 2011.
• Damian Pachter at The Star Tribune reports on protests in Argentina over government corruption, crime and inflation, November 2012.
• Jonathan Gilbert at The Christian Science Monitor reports on the public anger and frustration following a series of Argentinian train accidents, February 2013.
• NBC News reports on anger at Argentinian politicians following natural disasters, April 2013.
• VoA reports on violence in the streets of Buenos Aires following the country’s World Cup defeat to Germany, July 2014.
• The New York Times reports on the civic unrest in Ferguson Missouri, August 2014.
• William E. Ketchum III at Michigan Live reports on protests over the water quality in Flint, February 2015.
• Mar Diestro-Dópido places the anger and rage of Wild Tales in a political and social context for Sight and Sound, March 2015.
• Budd Wilkins at Slant discusses the recurring political anger underpinning Wild Tales, May 2014.
• A.A. Dowd at The A.V. Club discusses the construction and the structure of Wild Tales, February 2015.
• Damián Szifron talks to SydneysBuzz about Wild Tales as an exploration of losing control, February 2015.
• Damián Szifron talks to The Boston Globe about what inspired him to make Wild Tales, February 2015.
• Tasha Robinson at The Dissolve writes about Wild Tales as a celebration of catharsis, February 2015.
• Ben Beaumount-Thomas at The Guardian reports on the similarities between the opening of Wild Tales and the German Wings incident, March 2015.
• The Chappelle Show looks at what happens “when keeping it real goes wrong”, March 2004.
• Keira Williams at Pop Matters reflects on the anger coursing through Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, March 2018.
• Martin McDonagh talks to IndieWire about Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri as a parable of anger, November 2017.
• Gordon Deegan at The Irish Times reports on the incentivisation of clamping, September 2020.
• Mary Fogarty at The Bray People writes on a campaign to stop clamping across Bray, September 2019.
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