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 – “Duck, You Sucker!”
August 16, 2024
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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 Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
- “Jules and Jim” (Francois Truffaut, 1962)
- “Brokeback Mountain” (Ang Lee, 2005)
- “Red Dead Redemption” (Steve Martin, Josh Needleman, and David Kunkler, 2010)
- “A Fistful of Dollars” (Sergio Leone, 1964)
- “For a Few Dollars More” (Sergio Leone, 1965)
- “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (Sergio Leone, 1966)
- “Once Upon a Time in the West” (Sergio Leone, 1968)
- “Once Upon a Time in America” (Sergio Leone, 1984)
- “Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)
- “Taxi Driver” (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
- “Billy Jack” (Tom Laughlin, 1971)
- “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (Terry Giliam and Terry Jones, 1975)
- “The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid” (Philip Kaufman, 1972)
- “Chato’s Land” (Michael Winner, 1972)
- “Deep Throat” (Gerard Damiano, 1972)
- “Frenzy” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972)
- “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” (J. Lee Thompson, 1972)
- “Joe Kidd” (John Sturges, 1972)
- “Deliverance” (John Boorman, 1972)
- “Junior Bonner” (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)
- “Sounder” (Martin Ritt, 1972)
- “Aliens” (James Cameron, 1986)
- “Rio Bravo” (Howard Hawks, 1959)
- “Being There” (Hal Ashby, 1979)
Audio quotation:
- “Duck, You Sucker!” (Sergio Leone, 1971)