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
1971, a conversation – “The Andromeda Strain”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about movies from 1971.
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Referenced media:
- “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
- “Jurassic Park” (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
- “The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018)
- “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick, 1964)
- “Wag the Dog” (Barry Levinson, 1997)
- “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)
- “Citizen Kane” (Orson Welles, 1941)
- “Magnificent Ambersons” (Orson Welles, 1942)
- “It’s All True” (Orson Welles, 1941-1942)
- “The Sound of Music” (Robert Wise, 1965)
- “West Side Story” (Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, 1961)
- “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (Robert Wise, 1951)
- “Airport” (George Seaton, 1970)
- “Stunt Rock” (Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1978)
- “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
- “Plato’s Stepchildren” (David Alexander, 1968), November 22, 1968, Episode 10 of Season three of “Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969)
- “The Thing from Another World” (Christian Nyby, 1951)
- “Wanda” (Barbara Loden, 1971)
- “Get Carter” (Mike Hodges, 1971)
- “THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)
- “Summer of ’42” (Robert Mulligan, 1971)
- “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
Audio quotation:
- “The Andromeda Strain” (Robert Wise, 1971)
- Theme from “The X-Files” (Chris Carter, 1993-2002, 2016-2018), written by Mark Snow, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4-GcS1UQyg
- “RUMSFELD / KNOWNS” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc