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 10A: EXTRA CREDIT: Alternatives to “Friday”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
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 “Friday”.
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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 10A:
- “Force Majeure” (Ruben Östlund, 2014)
- “Triangle of Sadness” (Ruben Östlund, 2022)
- “Wattstax” (Mel Stuart, 1973)
- “Bottoms” (Emma Seligman, 2023)
- “Fight Club” (David Fincher, 1999)
- “Road House” (Rowdy Herrington, 1989)
- “Road House” (Doug Liman, 2024)
- “Hamburger: The Motion Picture” (Mike Marvin, 1986)
Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 10A:
- “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
- “Road House” (Rowdy Herrington, 1989)