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 14A: Sound: Alternatives to “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
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:
- “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
- “Bombtrack” (1993) by Rage Against the Machine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUaL1FnotRQ&list=RDMUaL1FnotRQ&start_radio=1