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 – “Punishment Park”
•
Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about movies from 1971.
***
Referenced media:
- “The Big Doll House” (Jack Hill, 1971)
- “The Omega Man” (Boris Sagal, 1971)
- “The Last Movie” (Dennis Hopper, 1971)
- “The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971)
- “The Last Picture Show” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971)
- “The Big Boss” (Lo Wei, 1971)
- “Duck, You Sucker!” (Sergio Leone, 1971)
- “Fiddler on the Roof” (Norman Jewison, 1971)
- “Duel” (Steven Spielberg, 1971)
- “The War Game” (Peter Watkins, 1966)
- “THX 1138” (George Lucas, 1971)
- “The Hunger Games” (Gary Ross, 2012)
- “Oppenheimer” (Christopher Nolan, 2023)
- “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)
- “Man Bites Dog” (Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, and Benoît Poelvoorde, 1992)
- “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
- “Running Man” (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987)
Audio quotation:
- “Punishment Park” (Peter Watkins, 1971)
- “The Running Man Revolution End Credits” from “The Running Man” (Paul Michael Glaser, 1987), written by Harold Faltermeyer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl73wrJU1nw&list=PLk83Uk_KUSSfJjwF0oZnhaESCw2cG9j0t&index=18