Blockbusters and Birdwalks

Author: Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

At Blockbusters and Birdwalks, youll 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.
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GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 17A: Special Effects: Alternatives to “Welcome to the Dollhouse”
Tuesday, 18 November, 2025

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 “Welcome to the Dollhouse”.***Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 17A:“Anatahan” (Josef von Sternberg, 1953)“Ms. 45” (Abel Ferrara, 1981)“And God Created Woman” (Roger Vadim, 1956)“Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” (Sam Peckinpah, 1973)“The Wild Bunch” (Sam Peckinpah, 1969)“Tower” (Keith Maitland, 2016)“The Deadly Tower” (Jerry Jameson, 1975)Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 17A:“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