Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guests Deirdre Molumby and Brian Lloyd, 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, marking the passing of Ed Asner, Pete Docter’s Up.
Carl Fredricksen is a widower who finds himself facing the end of a modest life in the small house that he once shared with the love of his life. When it looks like what little remains of that life migth be disturbed and destroyed, Carl decides to embark on the one last adventure that he never got to take with his beloved life: a trip to mysterious “Paradise Falls”, without leaving his home.
At time of recording, it was ranked 123rd on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 4th September 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.
- Up at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDb Top 250 at time of recording.
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- Anita Gates at The New York Times offers an overview of the life and career of Ed Asner, August 2021.
- The BBC reports on the passing of Ed Asner, August 2021.
- John Nichols at The Nation discusses the legacy and influence of Ed Asner’s politics, August 2021.
- Jeff Schuhrke at Jacobin looks at Ed Asner as a campaigner for labour rights, August 2021.
- Cosgrove explains the importance of the buddy system on Freakazoid, February 1997.
- Ed Asner is inducted into the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame, December 2015.
- Randee Dawn at Today discusses Christopher Plummer’s awkward relationship with The Sound of Music, February 2021.
- Jordan Hoffman at The Guardian discusses Starcrash, April 2020.
- John Rabe at The LAist looks at how Somewhere in Time became a cult classic, October 2020.
- Christopher Plummer talks to The Hollywood Reporter about how he shot All the Money in the World, December 2017.
- Ed Asner talks to SyFy Wire about working on Up, December 2012.
- Ed Asner gives his last interview to The Hollywood Reporter, August 2021.
- Nikke Finke at Deadline reports on the nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards, February 2010.
- Abbie Fentress Swanson at WQXR reports on Michael Giacchino’s Oscar win for Up, March 2010.
- Aly Semigran at Billboard explains why Every Breath You Take is a bad choice to play at a wedding, August 2016.
- Jeff Vice at Deseret News discusses the development of Up as the first Pixar movie in 3D, May 2009.
- Pete Bradshaw reviews Up from the Cannes Film Festival, May 2009.
- Laurel Graeber at The New York Times looks at how Monsters at Work brought Monsters Inc. to television, July 2021.
- Bob Peterson and Kim Collins talk to Animation Magazine about making Dug Days, September 2021.
- Christopher Orr at The Atlantic looks at the Pixar wilderness following the company’s purchase by Disney, June 2017.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist argues in defense of Pixar’s recent creative and commercial directions, June 2021.
- John Horn at The Los Angeles Times looks behind the scenes on the opening montage of Up, June 2009.
- Pete Docter talks to Yahoo! Movies about how the opening montage of Up was almost cut from the film, June 2015.
- Manohla Dargis at The New York Times advances the argument that Up never lives up to its opening nine minutes, May 2009.
- Mark Feeney at Boston argues that Pixar is a studio built around celebrating Hollywood and cinematic history, June 2009.
- Michael Rechtshaffen at The Hollywood Reporter situates Up as the culmination of Pixar’s love of Hollywood history, May 2009.
- Scott Tobias at The Ringer discusses Pete Docter as an auteur working within the Pixar system, December 2020.
- Pete Docter talks to Animated Views about his upbringing and development, June 2009.
- Phil Hoad at The Guardian discussed the recurring fixation on death within the Pixar filmography, December 2020.
- Jen Chaney at The Dissolve discusses Pixar’s fascination with the importance – and the challenges – of growing up, June 2015.
- Russ Fischer at /Film reports on the decision to cut a subplot involving Kevin’s eggs from the movie, June 2009.
- David Chen at /Film discusses the importance of Russell in Up, May 2009.
- Russell Yang talks to USA Today about inspiring the character of Russell in Up, February 2015.
- Pete Docter discusses his inspirations in making Up with SyFy Wire, March 2009.
- Roger Ebert reviews Up from the Cannes Film Festival for The Chicago Sun Times, May 2009.
- Pete Docter talks to KPBS about directing Up at the same time as the English translation of Howl’s Moving Castle, May 2009.
- Adam Rogers at Wired discusses Pixar’s use of colours so vivid that modern televisions cannot even support them, April 2021.
- John Edgar Park goes behind the scenes of the production of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within for Animation World Network, September 2001.
- Rick Lyman at The New York Times discusses fears that real actors might be replaced by computer-generated surrogates, July 2001.
- Mark Harrison at Film Stories looks back on Robert Zemeckis’ motion capture movies, December 2020.
- Ian Phillips and Conner Blake at Insider look at the evolution of Pixar’s animation of human characters, August 2020.
- Mekado Murphy at The New York Times looks at the animation style applied to Pixar’s Up, May 2009.
- Aljean Harmetz at The New York Times looks at the “nine old men” as the living representation of institutional memory in Disney, July 1993.
- Brad Bird talks to The Laughing Place about his experiences working with the “nine old men”, December 2018.
- Jordan Peele talks to Vanity Fair about how The Emoji Movie convinced him to retire from acting, February 2018.
- Brittany DiCologero at WDW Magazine looks at the importance of the ball to Pixar as an animation studio, August 2021.
- Peter Sciretta at /Film lists the various Pixar easter eggs in Up, May 2009.
- Michael Giacchino talks to Den of Geek about his life and career, September 2017.
- Michael Giacchino talks to Time about being the first composer other than John Williams to score a live action Star Wars film, December 2016.
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