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 “Sweet Smell of Success”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 6A:

• “Napoléon” (Abel Gance, 1927)
• “Throne of Blood” (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
• “The Sting” (George Roy Hill, 1973)
• “Mad Max: Fury Road” (George Miller, 2015)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 6A:

• “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 6:

• “Marty” (Delbert Mann, 1955)
• “Director’s Cut” (2001) by Fantômas
• “The Godfather” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972)
• “Cape Fear” (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
• “The Omen” (Richard Donner, 1976)
• “Spider Baby: or, the Maddest Story Ever Told” (Jack Hill, 1967)
• “Charade” (Stanley Donen, 1963)
• “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion” (Elio Petri, 1970)
• "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me” (David Lynch, 1992)
• “Scarface” (Howard Hawks, 1932)
• “Spartacus” (Stanley Kubrick, 1960)
• “Brick” (Rian Johnson, 2005)
• “A Face in the Crowd” (Elia Kazan, 1957)
• “12 Angry Men” (Sidney Lumet, 1957)
• “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” (John Sturges, 1957)
• “Paths of Glory” (Stanley Kubrick, 1957)
• “The Bridge on the River Kwai” (David Lean, 1957)
• “Throne of Blood” (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 6:

• “Sweet Smell of Success” (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)

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 “Perfect Days”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 5A:

• “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
• “Dolemite” (D’Urville Martin, 1975)
• “Blacula” (William Crain, 1972)
• “Cecil B. Demented” (John Waters, 2000)
• “Mo’ Better Blues” (Spike Lee, 1990)
• “Another Gay Movie” (Todd Stephens, 2006)
• “Cleopatra Jones” (Jack Starrett, 1973)
• “Border” (Ali Abbasi, 2018)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 5A:

• “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 5:

• “Babel” (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2006)
• “13 Assassins” (Takashi Miike, 2010)
• “Seven Samurai” (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
• “The Long Good Friday” (John Mackenzie, 1980)
• “F1” (Joseph Kosinski, 2025)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 5:

• “Toilet Flush Sound Effect - High Quality Flushing” by Sound Effect Doggo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhsVpvM2ZrM
• “The Twilight Zone Theme” (1959) by Marius Constant, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhsVpvM2ZrM
• “Perfect Days” (Wim Wenders, 2023), including “Perfect Day (Piano Komorebi Version)” (2024) by Patrick Watson, “Pale Blue Eyes” (1969) by The Velvet Underground, “Feeling Good” (1965) by Nina Simone, “House of the Rising Sun (Japanese Version)” (2023) by Sayuri Ishikawa, and “Perfect Day” (1972) by Lou Reed, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhC3YPiBwS9Vc9nbBG1Dl6y4AfZPD23lm
• “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (Stephen Herek, 1989)

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 “Come and See”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 4A:

• “Time Square” (Allan Moye, 1980)
• “Christiane F.” (Uli Edel, 1981)
• “Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains” (Lou Adler, 1982)
• “Pump Up the Volume” (Allen Moyle, 1990)
• “American Graffiti” (George Lucas, 1973)
• “The Woman King” (Gina Prince-Bythewood, 2022)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 3A:

• “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
• “Sound of Silver” by LCD Soundsystem (2007), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kmTQj8x0N8
• “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 4:

• “Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976)
• “Shoah” (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
• “Paths of Glory” (Stanely Kubrick, 1957)
• “Platoon” (Oliver Stone, 1986)
• “Ran” (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
• “Solaris” (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
• “Full Metal Jacket” (Stanley Kubrick, 1987)
• “Hamburger Hill” (John Irvin, 1987)
• “Casualties of War” (Brian De Palma, 1989)
• “Atonement” (Joe Wright, 2007)
• “Dunkirk” (Christopher Nolan, 2017)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 4:

• “The Sacred War” by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov and Vasily Lebedev-Kumach (1941), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maYCStVzjDs&list=RDmaYCStVzjDs&start_radio=1
• “Circus” (Grigori Aleksandrov and Isidor Simkov, 1936), including the song “Trip to the Stratosphere”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCEWd_zDYmc
• “Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976), including the song “Tell My Story” by Charlie Smalls
• “Moments in Love” by Art of Noise (1983), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cen22TBHo9M&list=RDcen22TBHo9M&start_radio=1
• “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 “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 3A:

• “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
• “Apocalypse Now Redux” (Francis Ford Coppola, 2001)
• “Day for Night” (Francois Truffaut, 1973)
• “Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood” (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 3A:

• “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 3:

• “Alien 3” (David Fincher, 1992)
• “Alien Quadrilogy” (Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
• “Alien” (Ridley Scott, 1979)
• “Alien: Director’s Cut” (Ridley Scott, 2001)
• “Aliens” (James Cameron, 1986)
• “Aliens: Directors” Cut” (James Cameron, 1991)
• “Alien Resurrection” (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997
• “Alien Resurrection: Director’s Cut” (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2003)
• “The Abyss” (James Cameron, 1989)
• “The Abyss: The Special Edition” (James Cameron, 1992)
• “Fatal Attraction” (Adrian Lyne, 1987)
• “Fatal Attraction: A Special Collector’s Edition” (Adrian Lyne, 1992)
• “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” (James Cameron 1991)
• “Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Special Edition” (James Cameron, 1993)
• “Pulp Fiction” (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
• “Jackie Brown” (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
• “Basic Instinct” (Paul Verhoeven, 1992)
• “Lethal Weapon 3” (Richard Donner, 1992)
• “Patriot Games” (Phillip Noyce, 1992)
• “Encino Man” (Les Mayfield, 1992)
• “The Oprah Winfrey Show” (Oprah Winfrey, 1986-2011)
• “Die Hard” (John McTiernan, 1988)
• “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” (Peter Jackson, 2003)
• “Game of Thrones” (David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, 2011-2019)
• “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” (George Lucas, 1977)
• “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back” (Irvin Kershner, 1980)
• “Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi” (Richard Marquand, 1983)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 3:

• “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)” (David Fincher, 1992), including “Main Title”, “First Attack”, “It Won’t Kill Me”, and “End Credits” composed by Elliott Goldenthal
• “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” (James Cameron, 1991), including “Main Title Theme” composed by Brad Fiedel
• “Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back” (Irvin Kerschner, 1980), including “The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)” composed by John Williams
• “Dentist Drill Sound Effect [HD]” by n Beats, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf1lJywmMY8

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 “Drum”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 2A:

• “The Trial” (Orson Welles, 1962)
• “Manson” (Robert Hendrickson and Laurence Merrick, 1973)
• “Woodstock” (Michael Wadleigh, 1970)
• “The Great Beauty” (Paolo Sorrentino, 2013)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 2A:

• “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 2:

• “The Jerry Springer Show” (Burt Dubrow, 1991-2018)
• “Roots” (David L. Wolper, 1977)
• “Gone With the Wind” (Victor Fleming, 1939)
• “Alien” (Ridley Scott, 1979)
• “Mandingo” (Richard Fleischer, 1975)
• “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (Melvin Van Peebles, 1971)
• “Battlestar Galactica” (Glen A. Larson, 1978-1979)
• “Star Trek” (Gene Roddenberry, 1966-1969), including S1 E26 “Errand of Mercy”
• “Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling” (Richard Pryor, 1986)
• “Pretty Baby” (Louis Malle, 1978)
• “Conan the Barbarian” (John Milius, 1982)
• “Song of the South” (Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, 1946)
• “Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS” (Don Edmonds, 1975)
• “M*A*S*H” (Larry Gelbart, 1972-1983)
• “Ran” (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
• “Django Unchained” (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
• “12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013)
• “Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” (Sam Peckinpah, 1974)
• “Private Property” (Leslie Stevens, 1960)
• “Ride the High Country” (Sam Peckinpah, 1962)
• “Stripes” (Ivan Reitman, 1981)
• “Blazing Saddles” (Mel Brooks, 1974)
• “The Bad News Bears” (Michael Ritchie, 1976)
• “Sparkle” (Sam O’Steen, 1976)
• “All the President’s Men” (Alan J. Pakula, 1976)
• “Family Plot” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1976)
• “Grizzly” (William Girdler, 1976)
• “Jaws” (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
• “Embryo” (Ralph Nelson, 1976)
• “Leadbelly” (Gordon Parks, 1976)
• “Silent Movie” (Mel Brooks, 1976)
• “Logan’s Run” (Michael Anderson, 1976)
• “The Omen” (Richard Donner, 1976)
• “The Outlaw Josey Wales” (Clint Eastwood, 1976)
• “The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings” (John Badham, 1976)
• “The Shootist” (Don Siegel, 1976)
• “Bugsy Malone” (Alan Parker, 1976)
• “The Birth of a Nation” (Nate Parker, 2016)
• “Birth of a Nation” (D.W. Griffith, 1915)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 2:

• “Drum” (Steve Carver, 1976), including the song “Tell My Story” composed by Charlie Smalls
• “The Jerry Springer Show” (Burt Dubrow, 1991-2018), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dize77oSCPE
• “Anvil of Crom”, composed by Basil Poledouris for “Conan the Barbarian” (John Milius, 1982)
• “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, composed by Allie Wrubel and Ray Gilbert for “Song of the South” (Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, 1946)
• “Stripes” (Ivan Reitman, 1981)