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Mar 19, 2024 · Walter Hill, who wrote and/or directed and produced such films as 48 Hrs., The Warriors, The Getaway and many more, will receive the WGA West‘s 2024 Laurel Award.He will be presented with the ...
Apr 9, 2017 · The director of classics 'The Warriors' and '48 Hrs.' looks back on his legendary career. Jason Guerrasio. Apr 9, 2017, 8:00 AM PDT. Walter Hill is responsible for some of the most thrilling and ...
Dec 8, 2022 · Walter Hill may not be the first filmmaker movie fans bring up when discussing well-known action directors, but he’s certainly one of the best. Beginning his career as a screenwriter, Hill was ...
Sep 6, 2022 · Walter is of the same conviction and that’s what was absolutely fabulous.” Given we are in the land of Sergio Leone, Hill was also asked about any influence the Italian maestro may have had on ...
Oct 12, 2022 · The closing title card of the new Western Dead for a Dollar includes the dedication “In Memory of Budd Boetticher.” Had director Walter Hill worked during Boetticher’s era, he too may have churned out exceptional, modestly budgeted Westerns at a clip of roughly one a year, like Boetticher did for Columbia Pictures in the 1950s.
Oct 12, 2016 · Walter Hill’s masterclass at the 2016 Lumière Festival. By 1972, when Hill wrote “The Getaway,” Peckinpah was “an alcoholic, and I don’t think that is a secret I’m sharing.”
Aug 14, 2017 · Without having the fanfare of many of his fellow 1970s alum, Walter Hill is one of the most important and influential filmmakers of all time. He brought a hard nosed style to cinema, a successor to Sam Peckinpah that stripped away some of Sam’s more nihilistic and stylistic flourishes to really elevate pulp to something more poetic.
