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
2005, a conversation – “Syriana”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005.
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Referenced media:
- “Michael Clayton” (Tony Gilroy, 2007)
- “Up in the Air” (Jason Reitman, 2009)
- “Good Night, and Good Luck.” (George Clooney, 2005)
- “The Big Short” (Adam McKay, 2015)
- “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
- “The Godfather: Part II” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
- “Traffik” (Simon Moore, 1989)
- “Traffic” (Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
- “Paradise Now” (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005)
- “United 93” (Paul Greengrass, 2006)
- “Thank You for Smoking” (Jason Reitman, 2005)
- “Kick-Ass” (Matthew Vaughn, 2010)
- “Airplane!” (Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, 1980)
- “The Constant Gardener” (Fernando Meirelles, 2005)
- “Everything Is Illuminated” (Liev Schreiber, 2005)
- “A History of Violence” (David Cronenberg, 2005)
- “Capote” (Bennett Miller, 2005)
- “North Country” (Niki Caro, 2005)
- “Jarhead” (Sam Mendes, 2005)
- “Walk the Line” (James Mangold, 2005)
- “Rent” (Chris Columbus, 2005)
- “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada” (Tommy Lee Jones, 2005)
- “Munich” (Steven Spielberg, 2005)
- “The New World” (Terence Malick, 2005)
Audio quotation:
- “Syriana” (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)