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 – “The New World” (The Extended Cut)
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about overlooked movies from 2005.
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Referenced media:
- “The Emigrants” (Jan Troell, 1971)
- “The New Land” (Jan Troell, 1972)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (Peter Jackson, 2001)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” (Peter Jackson, 2002)
- “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2003)
- “Syriana” (Stephen Gaghan, 2005)
- “The Thin Red Line” (Terrence Malick, 1998)
- “John Wick” (Chad Stahelski, 2014)
- “Pocahontas” (Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg, 1995)
- “Spaceballs” (Mel Brooks, 1987)
- “Apocalypto” (Mel Gibson, 2006)
- “Badlands” (Terrence Malick, 1973)
- “Days of Heaven” (Terrence Malick, 1978)
- “Avatar” (James Cameron, 2009)
- “The Jerk” (Carl Reiner, 1979)
- “Quest for Fire” (Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1981)
- “Heaven’s Gate” (Michael Cimino, 1980)
Audio quotation:
- “The New World” (Terence Malick, 2005), including the songs “First Landing” and “All Is Lost” by James Horner, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF58BABF8997A9930
- “Cash Register Cha-Ching | Sound Effect | (Kaching) - Sound - HD” by cashregistersound, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trR5YxZjfes
- “The Jerk” (Carl Reiner, 1979)
- “Das Rheingold”, including “Prelude” by Richard Wagner (1869), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chLhMuCLEPk