Blockbusters and Birdwalks
At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, you’ll listen to reviews and conversations about all kinds of movies, from Academy Award winners to exploitation masterpieces with a mix of commercial hits and obscure favorites thrown in for good measure. The point is recognizing that movies present our culture with the building blocks of social memory, enabling each of us to enjoy ourselves because movies are fun.
Blockbusters and Birdwalks
"Prisoners" (2013), a conversation
August 30, 2023
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa respond to a moody and twisted police procedural.
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Referenced media:
- “Sicario” (Denis Villeneuve, 2015)
- “La La Land” (Damien Chazelle, 2016)
- “The Shape of Water” (Guillermo del Toro, 2017)
- “Zodiac” (David Fincher, 2007)
- “The Sixth Sense” (M. Night Shyamalan, 1999)
- “Happy Days” (Garry Marshall, 1974-1984)
- “Little Miss Sunshine” (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2006)
- “The Elephant Man” (David Lynch, 1980)
- “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace” (George Lucas, 1999)
- “Fruitvale Station” (Ryan Coogler, 2013)
- “Blue Jasmine” (Woody Allen, 2013)
- “Enough Said” (Nicole Holofcener, 2013)
- “Don Jon” (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 2013)
- “Gravity” (Alfonso Cuarón, 2013)
- “Captain Phillips” (Paul Greengrass, 2013)
- “12 Years a Slave” (Steve McQueen, 2013)
- “All is Lost” (J.C. Chandor, 2013)
Audio quotation:
- “Prisoners” (Denis Villeneuve, 2013)
- Trojan Commerical: Fire & Ice” (2012), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbmZhgAW1-s