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The Warriors screens at Metrograph from October 14. Since his first film as a writer-director, 1975’s Hard Times, Walter Hill has famously and repeatedly professed to only make movies that, at their core, are Westerns. Sometimes that’s explicitly the case, as in his just-released Dead for a Dollar, shot in 25 days, with New Mexico standing ...
The Driver was financed by EMI Films who announced they would make a second film with Hill, a Western he wrote with Roger Spottiswoode, The Last Gun. [24] However The Driver was a commercial failure in the United States. "To say it did not do well would be kind," said Hill.
May 23, 2017 · Walter Hill’s countercultural landmark has set its scene, and New York will never see a night like this again. The Warriors is, crudely summarised, the story of a gang-infested New York erupting into a night-long orgy of violence, vinyl, and anarchy.
Top credentials, with Walter Hill adapting a Jim Thompson story for Sam Peckinpah, and filmed on atmospheric Texas locations. Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) is paroled from prison with a little help from corrupt Beynon (Ben Johnson), on condition that he repays the favour by pulling a bank job.
A stunning miscalculation from Hill. Wanting to branch out into something other than genre filmmaking isn’t a bad idea, but to do it on such a lifeless and toothless comedy was a horrible idea. Especially doing so with post burn Richard Pryor, who was unfunny in movies as he was funny on stage.
Jun 11, 2006 · Cable guy. HILL, who hasn’t had a hit movie in years, has found a new outlet for his craft on cable. In recent years, he has won the Emmy and Directors Guild of America awards for directing the...
Sep 12, 2023 · Director Walter Hill expertly utilizes the West Texas setting to create a blistering atmosphere that immerses viewers in the intense shootouts and rugged world of the film.
