
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
GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 4: Emotional Realism, Part 1: “Come and See”
GATEWAY CINEMA is a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, we interpret and celebrate a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie a Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.
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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 4:
- “Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976)
- “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
- “Paths of Glory” (Stanely Kubrick, 1957)
- “Platoon” (Oliver Stone, 1986)
- “Ran” (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
- “Solaris” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
- “Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
- “Hamburger Hill” (John Irvin, 1987)
- “Casualties of War” (Brian De Palma, 1989)
- “Atonement” (Joe Wright, 2007)
- “Dunkirk” (Christopher Nolan, 2017)
Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 4:
- “The Sacred War” by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov and Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1941), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYCStVzjDs&list=RDmaYCStVzjDs&start_radio=1
- “Circus” (Grigori Aleksandrov and Isidor Simkov, 1936), including the song “Trip to the Stratosphere”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCEWd_zDYmc
- “Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976), including the song “Tell My Story” by Charlie Smalls
- “Moments in Love” by Art of Noise (1983), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cen22TBHo9M&list=RDcen22TBHo9M&start_radio=1
- “Come and See” (Elem Klimov, 1985), including “Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Sequentia, Lacrimosa” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791)