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 8A: Performance: Alternatives to “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”
In this multi-part series, we’ve focused on just one movie to explore a key idea in film studies. But this one choice means we’ve left out multitudes. Here is the larger set of also-rans we wrestled with before finally choosing “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”.
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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 8A:
- “Born to Kill” (Robert Wise, 1947)
- “Dillinger” (Max Nosseck, 1945)
- “Reservoir Dogs” (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
- “The Devil Thumbs a Ride” (Felix E. Feist, 1947)
- “Withnail and I” (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
- “Enter the Dragon” (Robert Clouse, 1973)
- “Whiplash” (Damien Chazelle, 2014)
Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 8A:
- “Vintage Movie Projector | Sound Effect | Feel The Past Film Industry” by n Beats, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUICp5XeJ4
- “Film Clapperboard Green Screen Effect With Sound” by Jacob Anderson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1sEiCa-yic
- “Slide projector changing with clicks” by (Soundsnap), https://www.soundsnap.com/tags/slide_projector?page=2