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 Decameron”
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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)
- “The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971)
- “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
- “Arabian Nights” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1975)
- “The Original Kings of Comedy” (Spike Lee, 2000)
- “Big Love” (Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, 2006-2011)
- “Last Temptation of Christ” (Martin Scorsese, 1988)
- “The French Connection” (William Friedkin, 1971)
- “The Decameron” (Kathleen Jordan, 2024)
- “Straw Dogs” (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
- “Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)
- “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Audio quotation:
- “The Decameron” (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971)
- “The Original Kings of Comedy” (Spike Lee, 2000)