Blockbusters and Birdwalks

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 “Marie Antoinette”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 11A:

• “Flash Gordon” (Mike Hodges, 1980)
• “Barry Lyndon” (Stanely Kubrick, 1975)
• “Sleepy Hollow” (Tim Burton, 1999)
• “Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams” (Akira Kurosawa, 1990)
• “Tron” (Steven Lisberger, 1982)
• “The Masque of the Red Death” (Roger Corman, 1964)
• “Elvis” (Baz Luhrmann, 2022)
• “Lady Snowblood” (Toshiya Fujita, 1973)
• “Pan’s Labyrinth” (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 11A:

• “Flash Gordon ” (Mike Hodges, 1980), including the song “Flash’s Theme” (1980) by Queen
• “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

GATEWAY CINEMA is a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, we interpret and celebrate a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie a Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 11:

• "Amadeus (Director’s Cut)” (Milos Forman, 1984/2002)
• “Breakfast Club” (John Hughes, 1985)
• “Moulin Rouge!” (Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
• “Conan the Barbarian” (John Milius, 1982)
• “Saturday Night Life” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-now)
• “John Adams” (Tom Hooper, 2008)
• “Interview with the Vampire” (Neil Jordan, 1994)
• “The Power of the Dog” (Jane Campion, 2021)
• “Civil War” (Alex Garland, 2024)
• “Star Trek: Next Generation” (Gene Roddenberry, 1987-1994)
• “The Virgin Suicides” (Sofia Coppola, 1999)
• “Lost in Translation” (Sofia Coppola, 2003)
• “Rushmore” (Wes Anderson, 1998)
• “Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “Barry Lyndon” (Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
• “Eye in the Sky” (Gavin Hood, 2015)
• “The New World” (Terrence Malick, 2005)
• “Titus” (Julie Taymor, 1999)
• “Titus Andronicus” (William Shakespeare, 1588-1593)
• “The Lion King” (Julie Taymor, 1997-now)
• “Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (Larry Charles, 2006)
• “Nashville” (Robert Altman, 1975)
• “The Player” (Robert Altman, 1992)
• “American Graffiti” (George Lucas, 1973)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 11:

• “Marie Antoinette” (Sofia Coppola, 2006), including the songs “Intro Versailles” (2006) by Brian Reitzell, “I Want Candy” (1982) by Bow Wow Wow, “Fools Rush In” (1982) by Bow Wow Wow, “Aphrodisiac” (1983) by Bow Wow Wow, “Hong Kong Garden” (1978) by Siouxsie and the Banshees, “What Ever Happened?” (2003) by The Strokes, and “Kings of the Wild Frontier” (1980) by Adam and the Ants, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkTESLJ1DzwVuwneRvZRNBzJkbNQsX-sP
• “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” (1985) by Simple Minds, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A&list=RDCdqoNKCCt7A&start_radio=1
• Theme for “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (1987) by Jerry Goldsmith, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kcBxL7-qI&list=RDp5kcBxL7-qI&start_radio=1

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)

GATEWAY CINEMA is a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, we interpret and celebrate a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie a Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 10:

• "Half Baked” (Tamra Davis, 1998)
• “Up in Smoke” (Lou Adler, 1978)
• “The Big Lebowski” (Joel Coen, 1998)
• “Boyz n the Hood” (John Singleton, 1991)
• “Are We There Yet?” (Brian Levant, 2005)
• “Deadpool” (Tim Miller, 2016)
• “Deadpool 2” (David Leitch, 2018)
• “Deadpool & Wolverine” (Shawn Levy, 2024)
• “Menace II Society” (The Hughes Brothers, 1993)
• “South Central” (Stephen Milburn Anderson, 1992)
• “Colors” (Dennis Hopper, 1988)
• “ER” (Michael Crichton, 1994-2009), Season 11, Episode 15: “Alone in a Crowd” (Jonathan Kaplan, March 24, 2005)
• “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955-1965), Season 1, Episode 7: “Breakdown” (Alfred Hitchcock, November 13, 1955)
• “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
• “Next Friday” (Steve Carr, 2000)
• “Friday After Next” (Marcus Raboy, 2002)
• “Last Friday” (TBD)
• “Saturday Night Live” (Lorne Michaels, 1975-present)
• “Stagecoach” (John Ford, 1939)
• “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones, 1975)
• “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” (Terry Jones, 1979)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 10:

• “Friday” (F. Gary Gray, 1995), including the songs “Friday” (1995) by O’Shea Jackson, “Blast If I Have To” (1995) by Shon Adams and Mark Ogleton, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” (1981) by Whitfield and Barrett Strong, “Hoochie Mama” (1995) by David Hobbs, Luther Campbell, Chris Wong Won, and Mark Ross, and “Mary Jane” (1978) by James Ambrose Johnson
• “It Was a Good Day” (1993) by O’Shea Jackson, Marvin Isley, Rudolph Isley, O’Kelly Isley, Ernie Isley, Ronald Isley, and Chris Jasper

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 “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 9A:

• “Nashville” (Robert Altman, 1975)
• “The Deer Hunter” (Michael Cimino, 1978)
• “Dersu Uzala” (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)
• “Mean Streets” (Martin Scorsese, 1973)
• “The Babadook” (Jennifer Kent, 2014)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 9A:

• “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

GATEWAY CINEMA is a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, we interpret and celebrate a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie a Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 9:

• "The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)
• “Straw Dogs” (Sam Peckinpah, 1971)
• “The Osterman Weekend” (Sam Peckinpah, 1983)
• “Bonnie and Clyde” (Arthur Penn, 1967)
• “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)
• “The Parallax View” (Alan J. Pakula, 1974)
• “Chinatown” (Roman Polanski, 1974)
• “The Terminal Man” (Mike Hodges, 1974)
• “Truck Turner” (Jonathan Kaplan, 1974)
• “Death Wish” (Michael Winner, 1974)
• “Gone in 60 Seconds” (H.B. Halicki, 1974)
• “California Split” (Robert Altman, 1974)
• “The Longest Yard” (Robert Aldrich, 1974)
• “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (Tobe Hopper, 1974)
• “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
• “It’s Alive” (Larry Cohen, 1974)
• “Phantom of the Paradise” (Brian De Palma, 1974)
• “Cockfighter” (aka “Born to Kill”) (Monte Hellman, 1974)
• “Two-Lane Blacktop” (Monte Hellman, 1971)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 9:

• “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” (Sam Peckinpah, 1974), including the songs “Bring It to Me”, “Prelude to a Rape”, “Elita’s Dream”, and “Guatemala” composed by Jerry Fielding
• “The Three Stooges Theme Song”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5a45f1uy80&list=RDs5a45f1uy80&index=1

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 “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 8A:

• “Born to Kill” (Robert Wise, 1947)
• “Dillinger” (Max Nosseck, 1945)
• “Reservoir Dogs” (Quentin Tarantino, 1992)
• “The Devil Thumbs a Ride” (Felix E. Feist, 1947)
• “Withnail and I” (Bruce Robinson, 1987)
• “Enter the Dragon” (Robert Clouse, 1973)
• “Whiplash” (Damien Chazelle, 2014)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 8A:

• “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

GATEWAY CINEMA is a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, we interpret and celebrate a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie a Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 8:

• "Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)” (David Fincher, 1992/2003)
• “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” (Steven Spielberg, 1984)
• “Ghostbusters” (Ivan Reitman, 1984)
• “Gremlins” (Joe Dante, 1984)
• “The Karate Kid” (John G. Avildsen)
• “Purple Rain” (Albert Magnoli, 1984)
• “Silver Spoons” (Martin Cohan, Howard Leeds, and Ben Starr, 1982-1987)
• “Red Dawn” (John Milius, 1984)
• “Stop Making Sense” (Jonathan Demme, 1984)
• “The Terminator” (James Cameron, 1984)
• “At the Movies” (Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, 1982-1986)
• “Conan the Barbarian” (John Milius, 1982)
• “Body Double” (Brian De Palma, 1984)
• “The Killing Fields” (Roland Joffé, 1984)
• “A Nightmare on Elm Street” (Wes Craven, 1984)
• “Beverly Hills Cop” (Martin Brest, 1984)
• “Dune” (David Lynch, 1984)
• “The Cotton Club” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1984)
• “The Cotton Club: Encore” (Francis Ford Coppola, 2017)
• “Starman” (John Carpenter, 1984)
• “E.T.” (Steven Spielberg, 1982)
• “The Thing” (John Carpenter, 1982)
• “Come and See” (Elen Klimov, 1985)
• “Star Wars” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “Time Bandits” (Terry Gilliam, 1981)
• “The Smurfs and the Magic Flute” (José Dutillieu, 1975)
• “Style Wars” (Tony Silver, 1983)
• “Mary Poppins” (Robert Stevenson, 1964)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 8:

• “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)” (Miloš Forman, 1984/2002), including “Piano Concerto In E Flat, K. 482; 3rd Movement” (1785), “Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail: Finale” (1781), “Symphony 29 in A Major, 1st Movement” (1774), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq6-EneBMiNHmdqqE_5TmkJ9neViFMvTL
• “Rock Me Amadeus” by Falco (1985), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVikZ8Oe_XA&list=RDcVikZ8Oe_XA&start_radio=1
• “Purple Rain” (Albert Magnoli, 1984)
• “Come and See” (Elem Klimov, 1985), including “Requiem in D minor, K. 626: Sequentia, Lacrimosa” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791)

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 “The Swimmer”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 7A:

• “The Last Year at Marienbad” (Alain Resnais, 1961)
• “Survive Style 5+” (Gen Sekiguchi, 2004)
• “Magnolia” (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
• “The Holy Mountain” (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1973)
• “Dunkirk” (Christopher Nolan, 2017)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 7A:

• “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

GATEWAY CINEMA is a multi-part series of conversations centered on key ideas in film studies. In these conversations, we interpret and celebrate a set of eclectic feature films from across generations and from around the world, including “La Haine”, “Drum”, “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”, “Come and See”, “Perfect Days”, “Sweet Smell of Success”, “The Swimmer”, “Amadeus (Director’s Cut)”, “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia”, “Friday”, “Marie Antoinette”, “The Night of the Hunter”, “Crank” and “Crank 2: High Voltage”, “Portrait of a Lady Fire”, “The Fabulous Baron Munchausen”, “Joker: Folie a Deux”, “Welcome to the Dollhouse”, “Heathers”, and “The Death of Stalin”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 7:

• “Sweet Smell of Success” (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
• “From Here to Eternity” (Fred Zinnemann, 1953)
• “The Killers” (Robert Siodmak, 1946)
• “The Room” (Tommy Wiseau, 2003)
• “The Graduate” (Mike Nichols, 1967)
• “Planet of the Apes” (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)
• “Psych Out” (Richard Rush, 1968)
• “The Producers” (Mel Brooks, 1968), 
• “2001: A Space Odyssey” (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)
• “The Odd Couple” (Gene Saks, 1968)
• “The Detective” (Gordon Douglas, 1968)
• “Petulia” (Richard Lester, 1968)
• “Rosemary’s Baby” (Roman Polanski, 1968)
• “The Green Berets” (Ray Kellogg, 1968)
• “The Thomas Crown Affair” (Norman Jewison, 1968)
• “Hang ‘Em High” (Ted Post, 1968)
• “Targets” (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)
• “Rachel, Rachel” (Paul Newman, 1968)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 7:

• “The Swimmer” (Frank Perry, 1968), including “Theme from ‘The Swimmer’ (Send for Me in Summer) / Big Splash”, “Carnival”, “Hurdles”, “My Kids Love Me / Traveling Home / Closer to Home / Home / Marcia Funebre”, “Down the Steps / On the Road”, and “Theme from ‘The Swimmer’ (Send for Me in Summer) (Reprise)” by Marvin Hamlisch, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkAUJkbhd-RgA8zSAa_Uqqq45GMl_ONci
• “TCM Jingle 2000 2002 2001 2003 2004 2008 2009 2012” by UPCGamesBogdanThePocoyoElemental&MarioWonder, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8SRkoE16nc
• “Main Title” by Jerry Goldsmith from “Planet of the Apes” (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968)