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 Beguiled”
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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)
- “Song of the South” (Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, 1946)
- “The Birth of a Nation” (D.W. Griffith, 1915)
- “Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976)
- “Mandingo” (Richard Fleischer, 1975)
- “Django Unchained” (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
- “Gone with the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939)
- “Dirty Harry” (Don Siegel, 1971)
- “Pig” (Michael Sarnoski, 2021)
- “The Beguiled” (Sofia Coppola, 2017)
- “Fury” (David Ayer, 2014)
- “Fury” (Fritz Lang, 1936)
- “Cold Mountain” (Anthony Minghella, 2003)
- “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (Robert Altman, 1971)
- “Wild Rovers” (Blake Edwards,1971)
- “The Hunting Party” (Don Medford, 1971)
- “Doc” (Frank Perry, 1971)
- “Johnny Got His Gun” (Dalton Trumbo, 1971)
- “Bless the Beasts and Children” (Stanley Kramer, 1971)
- “Bonanaza” (David Dortort, 1959-1973)
- “Gunsmoke” (Charles Marquis Warren, 1955-1975)
- “The Devils” (Ken Russell, 1971)
Audio quotation:
- “The Beguiled” (Don Siegel, 1971)
- The Beguiled (1971) Original Trailer [FHD], https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn2ckK1Pia8