Blockbusters and Birdwalks

“Airport” (1970), a conversation about a Blockbuster

March 06, 2024 • Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

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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)

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