Blockbusters and Birdwalks

GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 14A: Sound: Alternatives to “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”

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 “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 14A:

  • “Predator” (John McTiernan, 1987)
  • “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
  • “Natural Born Killers” (Oliver Stone, 1994)
  • “No Country For Old Men” (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2007)
  • “Touts les matins de monde (All the Mornings of the World” (Alain Courneu, 1991)
  • “The Exorcist” (William Friedkin, 1973)
  • “WALL*E” (Andrew Stanton, 2008)
  • “Up” (Pete Docter, 2009) 

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 14A: