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
REVENGE OF NATURE, a conversation – Episode 2: “Dersu Uzala”
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray
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Garrett Chaffin-Quiray and Ed Rosa discuss the predator-prey relationship to continue the series “Revenge of Nature”.
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Referenced media:
- “A Clockwork Orange” (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
- “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (Jim Sharman, 1975)
- “Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
- “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (Miloš Forman, 1975)
- “Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977)
- “The Deep” (Peter Yates, 1977)
- “The Rescuers” (Wolfgang Reitherman, John Lounsbery, and Art Stevens, 1977)
- “Orca” (Michael Anderson, 1977)
- “Eraserhead” (David Lynch, 1977)
- “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” (Steven Spielberg, 1977)
- “Saturday Night Fever” (John Badham, 1977)
- “Pete’s Dragon” (Don Chaffey, 1977)
- “Ran” (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
- “Kagemusha” (Akira Kurosaw, 1980)
- “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
- “Eyes Wide Shut” (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
- “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)
- “Shoeshine” (Vittorio De Sica, 1946)
- “Avatar” (James Cameron, 2009)
- “Throne of Blood” (Akira Kurawa, 1957)
- “Red Beard” (Akira Kurosawa, 1965)
- “Dodes’ka-den” (Akira Kurosawa, 1970)
- “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
- “Madadayo” (Akira Kurosawa, 1993)
- “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (Stephen Herek, 1989)
Audio quotation:
- “Pete’s Dragon” (Don Chaffey, 1977), including “Brazzle Dazzle Day” by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaLY2kKwqJk&list=RDkaLY2kKwqJk&start_radio=1
- “Dersu Uzala” (Akira Kurosawa, 1975), including “Journal” and “Arseniev on the Mountain Top” by Isaak Shvarts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zNtQVYyC4M&list=RD6zNtQVYyC4M&start_radio=1
- “Tank Glass – big rips only”, posted by Tank Glass, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dkp4gq8-5c0
- “Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977), including “The Force Theme by John Williams, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ak2jr55fE
- “Avatar” (James Cameron, 2009), including “Becoming One of the People – Becoming One With Neytiri” by James Horner, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7CL4WrwLAQ&list=PLF490561BA881D005&index=5
- “Ran” (Akira Kurosawa, 1985), including “Opening Credits – Main Title” by Tōru Takemitsu, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7YWL0mP6jU&list=RDd7YWL0mP6jU&start_radio=1
- “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (Stephen Herek, 1989)