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
“Airport” (1970), a conversation about a Blockbuster
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa embrace a soap opera in the sky.
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Referenced media:
- “Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
- “Zero Hour!” (Hall Bartlett, 1957)
- “One on Top of the Other” (Lucio Fulci, 1969)
- “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)
- “The Twilight Zone” (Rod Serling, 1959-1964)
- “An Officer and a Gentleman” (Taylor Hackford, 1982)
- “All the President’s Men” (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
- “Hud” (Martin Ritt, 1963)
- “Cool Hand Luke” (Stuart Rosenberg, 1967)
- “M*A*S*H” (Robert Altman, 1970)
- “Patton” (Franklin L. Schaffner, 1970)
- “Zabriskie Point” (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1970)
- “The Boys in the Band” (William Friedkin, 1970)
- “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” (Sam Peckinpah, 1970)
- “The Liberation of L.B. Jones” (William Wyler, 1970)
- “Woodstock” (Michael Wadleigh, 1970)
- “Waterloo” (Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970)
- “Hi, Mom!” (Brian De Palma, 1970)
- “Greetings” (Brian De Palma, 1968)
- “A Man Called Horse” (Elliot Silverstein, 1970)
- “Let It Be” (Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970)
- “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” (Ted Post, 1970)
- “Cotton Comes to Harlem” (Ossie Davis, 1970)
- “The Out-of-Towners” (Arthur Hiller, 1970)
- “Watermelon Man” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1970)
- “Two Mules for Sister Sara” (Don Siegel, 1970)
- “Crimes of the Future” (David Cronenberg, 1970)
- “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (Russ Meyer, 1970)
- “Catch-22” (Mike Nichols, 1970)
- “Myra Breckinridge” (Michael Sarne, 1970)
- “Perry Mason” (Gail Patrick Jackson, 1957-1966)
Audio quotation:
- “Airport” (George Seaton, 1970), including “Airport Love Theme”, “Airport (Main Title)”, “Joe Patroni Plane or Plows?”, “Ada Quonsett, Stowaway”, “Inez-Lost Forever”, and “Airport (End Title)”, written by Alfred Newman, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQzJzvVCvI&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RhBK5_wKcr55aTy2erljUve&index=1
- Trailer for re-release of “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OkXef2leWA