Blockbusters and Birdwalks

“Cleopatra” (1963), a conversation about a Blockbuster

• Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa assess prestige kitsch and consider carrying a spathae to defend a London-born Egyptian matriarch.

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Referenced media:

  • “My Fair Lady” (George Cukor, 1964)
  • “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Mike Nichols, 1966)
  • “Rome” (John Milius, William J. MacDonald, and Bruno Heller, 2005-2007)
  • “All in the Family” (Norman Lear, 1971-1979)
  • “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
  • “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (Quentin Tarantino, 2004)
  • “National Velvet” (Clarence Brown, 1944)
  • “Doctor Dolittle” (Richard Fleischer, 1967)
  • “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
  • “Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)
  • “Flaming Creatures” (Jack Smith, 1963)
  • “Bye Bye Birdie” (George Sidney, 1963), 
  • “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)
  • “The Nutty Professor” (Jerry Lewis, 1963)
  • “The Terror” (Roger Corman, 1963)
  • “The Little Shop of Horrors” (Roger Corman, 1960)
  • “Jason and the Argonauts” (Don Chaffey, 1963)
  • “PT 109” (Leslie H. Martinson and Lewis Milestone, 1963)
  • “The Great Escape” (John Sturges, 1963)
  • “Blood Feast” (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963)
  • “Beach Party” (William Asher, 1963)
  • “Flipper” (James B. Clark, 1963),
  • “The Cool World” (Shirley Clarke, 1963)
  • “The V.I.P.s” (Anthony Asquith, 1963)
  • “Dementia 13” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1963)
  • “Tom Jones” (Tony Richardson, 1963)
  • “The Haunting” (Robert Wise, 1963)
  • "High School Confidential" (Jack Arnold, 1958)
  • “Cleopatra” (Cecil B. DeMille, 1934)

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