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
INTRODUCING REVENGE OF NATURE
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In this multi-part conversation series, we’ve curated a handful of movies, from among hundreds of options, to explore how moviemakers transform the natural world into the antagonistic face of on-screen villainy.
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Referenced media in INTRODUCING REVENGE OF NATURE:
- “Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
- “The Birds” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
- “Contagion” (Steven Soderbergh, 2011)
- “Dersu Uzala” (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)
- “The Fly” (David Cronenberg, 1986)
- “Triangle of Sadness” (Ruben Östlund, 2022)
- “Roar” (Noel Marshall, 1981)
- “The Edge” (Lee Tamahori, 1997)
- “Snakes on a Plane” (David R. Ellis, 2006)
Audio quotation in INTRODUCING REVENGE OF NATURE:
- “Vintage Movie Projector | Sound Effect | Feel The Past Film Industry” by n Beats, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhUICp5XeJ4
- “Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975), including “Main Title “Theme from ‘Jaws’)” by John Williams, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwiqKSfnPp8&list=PLocqHZj7MJflfxg3wL_F7UDmve4AUSjyp
- “The Birds” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)