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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 ...
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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.
- Johnny Handsome (1989) A weirdly spiritual successor to what Hill was trying to do in “The Assignment”, but is done much better here. Not that what we get is some amazing movie, although it’s funny to think of Hill trying to make a crime movie with Rocky Dennis.
- Red Heat (1988) Hill would make a buddy cop movie with Arnold. What could go wrong? It would be easy to say the presence of Jim Belushi, but that’s not fair.
- Another 48 Hours (1990) This movie gets way more crap than it really deserves, even though it isn’t an objectively good movie. It’s way too derivative of the original movie and falls into that sequel trap of just being a beat for beat remake with some slight changes.
- The Assignment (2017) The movie that was designed to keep the thinkpiece industry afloat. My goodness is the premise of this so ridiculous and sleazy that it couldn’t help but excite anyone willing to go for the ride.
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...
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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.
