Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, 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, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer.
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer brought quantum physics to the United States. However, as the Second World War rages, the scientist finds himself drafted on to the Manhattan Project, and set a single all-consuming task: the creation of an atomic bomb. Oppenheimer throws himself into his work, but can even the best scientific mind of his generation be fully prepared for the consequences of this revelation.
At time of release, it was ranked 59th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 19th July 2023.
- 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.
- Oppenheimer at The Internet Movie Database.
- Christopher Nolan talks to The Telegraph about making Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Josh Weiss at SyFy reports on how Robert Pattinson’s wrap gift for TENET helped pave the way for Oppenheimer, June 2023.
- Christopher Nolan talks to Tara Hitchcock about why Robert Pattinson isn’t in Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Christopher Nolan talks to Entertainment Weekly about how his first exposure to J. Robert Oppenheimer came through Sting’s Russians, July 2023.
- Gene Maddaus at Variety discusses how critics and journalists are impacted by the ongoing labour disruptions in Hollywood, July 2023.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on Netflix’s efforts to coax and lure Christopher Nolan, July 2021.
- Zack Sharf at IndieWire reports on rumours of Christopher Nolan’s departure from Warner Brothers, January 2021.
- Kim Masters at The Hollywood Reporter quotes Christopher Nolan’s description of HBO Max as “the worst streaming service”, December 2020.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist discusses Christopher Nolan’s migration from Warner Bros. to Universal, September 2021.
- Rebecca Rubin and Brent Lang at Variety report on how Universal secured Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, September 2021.
- Matt Belloni at Puck reports on Tom Cruise’s efforts to secure the IMAX screens that have been given over to Oppenheimer, June 2023.
- Yossy Mendelovich at Y.M. Cinema reports on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One as the first Mission: Impossible film to shoot entirely on digital, October 2020.
- Daniel Sperling at Digital Spy reports on the destruction of an IMAX camera during the filming of The Dark Knight Rises, August 2011.
- Ryan Menezes at Cracked reports on the sinking of an IMAX camera during the production of Dunkirk, September 2021.
- Sam May at IndieWire looks back on how The Dark Knight saved IMAX as a premium format, July 2018.
- Erick Massoto at Collider reports on the size and scale of the IMAX reels for Oppenheimer, June 2023.
- Just Jared reports on how certain IMAX screenings of Oppenheimer will not have trailers due to the size of the film reel, July 2023.
- Hoyte van Hoytema talks to Den of Geek about how he developed black-and-white IMAX film specifically for Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes reports on the announcement that Oppenheimer will release on “the Nolan weekend”, September 2021.
- Matt Donnelly at Variety reports on Warner Bros. setting a release date for Barbie, April 2022.
- Matt Damon talks to Vanity Fair about seeing Oppenheimer and Barbie as a double feature, May 2023.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist looks at the developing and complicated relationship between Oppenheimer and Barbie, July 2023.
- Jason Guerrasio at Insider considers the complicated studio politics that led to the synchronised release of Oppenheimer and Barbie, July 2023.
- Darren Mooney at The Escapist considers the efforts by Disney to bring Mulan to China, September 2020.
- Alex Ward at Vox reports on the international controversy over the release of Mulan in China, September 2020.
- Jason P. Frank at Vulture reports on the competing press screenings of Barbie and Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Koh Ewe and Chad de Guzman at TIME report on the controversy over the appearance of “the nine-dash line” in Barbie, July 2023.
- Cillian Murphy talks to The Associated Press about finally getting to lead a Christopher Nolan film, July 2023.
- Michael DeLuca at Pam Abdy talk to Variety about trying to coax Christopher Nolan back to Warner Bros. after Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Claudia Eller and James Bates write The Los Angeles Times on the controversy surrounding Mike De Luca, March 1998.
- Oliver Lyttelton at IndieWire reflects on how Christopher Nolan’s movies are preoccupied with parenting, November 2014.
- Yuval Noah Harari talks to The Smithsonian Magazine about how humanity’s capacity to build fictive worlds distinguishes them from other creatures, February 2015.
- Karl T. Compton at The Atlantic wonders what might have happened had the atomic bomb not been dropped, December 1946.
- Harry S. Truman writes in The Atlantic defending his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, February 1947.
- Ward Wilson at Foreign Policy considers the final days of the Second World War, May 2013.
- Beverly Gage at The New Yorker considers Harry S. Truman as “the Accidental President”, March 2022.
- Herman S. Wolk at Air and Space Forces looks athow the National Security Act restructured America’s military might, July 1999.
- A.J. Baime talks to The Truman Library Institute about Harry S. Truman as “the Accidental President”, October 2017.
- Father Bill Ashbaugh at Faith Magazine considers “white martyrdom”, March 2006.
- Emily Blunt talks to The Guardian about playing Kitty Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Sean Dillon at The Gutter Review considers Grant Morrison’s assertion that “before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea”, August 2021.
- Alex Wellerstein at Nuclear Secrecy considers the strange death of Jean Tatlock, December 2015.
- Robert Downey Jr. talks to The New York Times about his life and career, July 2023.
- Christopher Nolan talks to The Washington Post about the production and development of Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Laura Mallonee at Wired considers the life and times of Wolfgang Mallonee, March 2016.
- K. Brad Wray at Social Studies of Science considers science as “a young man’s game”, February 2003.
- Siddhant Adlakha reviews Oppenheimer at IGN, July 2023.
- Oppenheimer talks to CBS, 1965.
- Ian Spiegelman at Los Angeles Magazine considers the SAG election between Matthew Modine and Fran Drescher, August 2021.
- Tony Goldwyn talks to Entertainment Weekly about his famous grandfather, one of the founders of MGM, August 1990.
- Christopher Nolan talks to The New York Times about the decision to make Oppenheimer, July 2023.
- Kai Bird writes in The New Yorker about how the trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer led to a diminishing of the public intellectual in American life, July 2023.
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