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
Romance, a conversation – “Harold and Maude”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
This is part of a series about romance in movies.
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Referenced media:
- “Golden Girls” (Susan Harris, 1985-1992)
- “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (Stanley Kubrick 1964)
- “The Graduate” (Mike Nichols, 1967)
Audio quotation:
- “Harold and Maude” (Hal Ashby, 1971), including the songs “Don’t Be Shy” and “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” by Cat Stevens