Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Aoife Barry, 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, Rob Reiner’s The Princess Bride.
As a young kid lies sick in bed, wasting time on video games, his grandfather decides to pay a visit. Taking the opportunity to indulge in a timeworn family tradition, the grandfather decides to share a timeless tale of romance and adventure that has been passed down from one generation to another: S.W. Morganstern’s The Princess Bride.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 21st June 2022.
- 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 offhandedly states that Aaron Sorkin wrote 98 of the first 100 episodes of The West Wing. In reality, he wrote 86 of the first 88.
- The Princess Bride at The Internet Movie Database.
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- Cary Elwes talks to NPR about the making of The Princess Bride, November 2016.
- Glenn Rifkin at The New York Times marks the passing of novelist and screenwriter William Goldman, November 2018.
- Peter Debrudge at Variety looks back on the impact of William Goldman’s Hollywood wisdom, “nobody knows anything”, November 2018.
- Rob Reiner talks to The New York Times about the development and the history of The Princess Bride, October 1987.
- Ellen Farley at The Los Angeles Times looks at how Norman Lear helped shepherd and guide Rob Reiner’s early directorial career, September 1987.
- Simon Brew at Den of Geek looks back on Rob Reiner’s incredible directorial hot streak from This is Spinal Tap through to A Few Good Men, March 2019.
- Roger Ebert reviews North for The Chicago Sun Times, July 1994.
- Empire offers a definitive oral history of The West Wing, October 2014.
- Kevin Craft at Pop Matters looks back on The American President, November 2018.
- Emma Specter at Vogue reflects on rewatching The American President, January 2021.
- Brian Lowry and Louis Sahagun at The Los Angeles Times report on Aaron Sorkin’s arrest for mushroom possession, April 2001.
- CNN reports that tests on Aaron Sorkin’s possessions also came back positive for cocaine, May 2001.
- Aaron Sorkin talks to ABC News about his arrest for drug possession, August 2001.
- Sean Fitz-Gerald at Vulture reports on writer Alena Smith’s criticisms of Aaron Sorkin’s management of the writers’ room on The News Room, December 2014.
- Greg Braxton at The Los Angeles Times reports on how writers occasionally felt “frozen out” of David E. Kelley’s writers rooms, November 1997.
- Kurt Andersen at Vanity Fair argues that fashion has remained frozen in place since the nineties, December 2011.
- Simon Pegg talks to The Hollywood Reporter about the infantalisation of popular culture, May 2015.
- Alex Abad-Santos at Vox argues that Hocus Pocus is undeserving of the nostalgia that it has received, October 2015.
- Janet Maslin at The New York Times reviews The Princess Bride, September 1987.
- Roger Ebert reviews The Princess Bride for The Chicago Sun-Times, October 1987.
- Rob Reiner talks to Aspen Times about the making of The Princess Bride, September 2005.
- Cary Elwes talks to NPR about the challenges in marketting The Princess Bride, October 2014.
- Cary Elwes talks to The Guardian about the frustration of making a great movie that doesn’t perform at the box office, February 2015.
- Dawn C. Chmielewski and Claudia Eller at The Los Angeles Times report on the challenges that Disney faced marketting princess movies to boys, March 2010.
- Rob Reiner talks to Variety about how long it took The Princess Bride to go into profit, September 2017.
- Connor Ratcliff interviews Tom Hanks on Dead Eyes, March 2022.
- In a profile of Norman Lear, Variety off-handedly mentions the possibility of a remake of The Princess Bride, September 2019.
- Laura Bradley at Vanity Fair reports on the response to the possibility of a remake of The Princess Bride, September 2019.
- Brian Boone at Vulture republishes the letters that would be sent to readers inquiring about the sequel to The Princess Bride, January 2012.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on Jason Reitman’s table read of The Princess Bride, August 2015.
- The Princess Bride: Home Movie, December 2020.
- Brenna Ehrlick at Rolling Stone reports on the fundraising table read of The Princess Bride, September 2020.
- Alley Mills explains to Entertainment Weekly that the original run of The Wonder Years was cancelled as a result of a sexual harassment lawsuit centring on Fred Savage, January 2018.
- Zack Sharf reports at IndieWire on accusations of harassment against Fred Savage on the set of The Grinder, March 2018.
- Lindsey Bever at The Washington Post reports that Fred Savage has been fired from the Wonder Years reboot over allegations of misconduct, May 2022.
- Mandy Patinkin admits in a round table interview with The Hollywood Reporter that he was “an asshole”, June 2013.
- Mandy Patinkin talks to 60 Minutes about being his own worst enemy, November 2014.
- Douglas Perry at Oregon Live reports on behind the scenes stories about Mandy Patinkin and André the Giant, October 2014.
- Matt Morrison at ScreenRant reports on behind the scenes stories of the making of The Princess Bride, December 2017.
- Christopher Guest talks to The Guardian about his life and career, October 2016.
- Jenna Ryu at USA Today reports on how The Princess Bride helped Mandy Patinkin process the loss of his own father, August 2021.
- Josh Weiss at SyFy Wire reports on Javier Bardem’s crush on the eponymous alien in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, February 2022.
- Extra Terrestrian: Die Ausserirdische, 1996.
- Robin Wright talks to Harvard Business Review about her life and career, January 2021.
- Ryan Vlastelica at The A.V. Club compares the novel and film of The Princess Bride, November 2015.
- Robin Wright talks to Jimmy Kimmel Live about workin with André the Giant on The Princess Bride, October 2017.
- Cary Elwes talks to Den of Geek about returning for Saw 3D, October 2010.
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