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 10: EXTRA CREDIT: “Friday”
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 10:
- "Half Baked” (Tamra Davis, 1998)
- “Up in Smoke” (Lou Adler, 1978)
- “The Big Lebowski” (Joel Coen, 1998)
- “Boyz n the Hood” (John Singleton, 1991)
- “Are We There Yet?” (Brian Levant, 2005)
- “Deadpool” (Tim Miller, 2016)
- “Deadpool 2” (David Leitch, 2018)
- “Deadpool & Wolverine” (Shawn Levy, 2024)
- “Menace II Society” (The Hughes Brothers, 1993)
- “South Central” (Stephen Milburn Anderson, 1992)
- “Colors” (Dennis Hopper, 1988)
- “ER” (Michael Crichton, 1994-2009), Season 11, Episode 15: “Alone in a Crowd” (Jonathan Kaplan, March 24, 2005)
- “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955-1965), Season 1, Episode 7: “Breakdown” (Alfred Hitchcock, November 13, 1955)
- “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
- “Next Friday” (Steve Carr, 2000)
- “Friday After Next” (Marcus Raboy, 2002)
- “Last Friday” (TBD)
- “Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-present)
- “Stagecoach” (John Ford, 1939)
- “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, 1975)
- “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” (Terry Jones, 1979)
Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 10:
- “Friday” (F. Gary Gray, 1995), including the songs “Friday” (1995) by O’Shea Jackson, “Blast If I Have To” (1995) by Shon Adams and Mark Ogleton, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1981) by Whitfield and Barrett Strong, “Hoochie Mama” (1995) by David Hobbs, Luther Campbell, Chris Wong Won, and Mark Ross, and “Mary Jane” (1978) by James Ambrose Johnson
- “It Was a Good Day” (1993) by O’Shea Jackson, Marvin Isley, Rudolph Isley, O’Kelly Isley, Ernie Isley, Ronald Isley, and Chris Jasper