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Walter Hill
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Walter Hill
- Introduction (Walter Hill)
- The Art of Screenwriting
- Walter Hill's Cinema
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Introduction (Walter Hill)
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The Art of Screenwriting
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Walter Hill's Cinema
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John Boorman
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Montage
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James Gray
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Color
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Lynne Ramsay
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Darius Khondji
Walter Hill
Introduction (Walter Hill)
Walter Hill
Vigorous and incomparably kinetic, Walter Hill’s films have revitalized the defining genres of American cinema. Our portrait film is broken into two chapters (DREAM WORLDS and PRINT THE LEGEND), which are connected to the central axes of Hill's extensive body of work. Room 2 explores Hill's influential contributions to the art of screenwriting, the relationship between his films and Classical Hollywood models, and his treatments of character and myth. The nature and implications of Hill's style are addressed in greater detail in Room 3, which moves from THE ART OF MOTION to INVITATION TO THE DANCE, GHOSTS OF WAR, and COWBOY ILIADS. Photograph by Gus Aronson (Los Angeles, November 2022).
Walter Hill Portrait Film
Two Chapters (DREAM WORLDS and PRINT THE LEGEND). (Los Angeles, November 2022).
The Art of Screenwriting
Old and New Hollywood
48 Hrs. (Walter Hill, 1982) is the best example of Walter Hill's reworking of Classical Hollywood templates.
Character and Myth
Walter Hill's spare, literary screenplays demonstrate how he conceived of the relationship between character and myth in films such as Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) and The Driver (Walter Hill, 1978, clip).
Walter Hill's Cinema
Art of Motion
Movement within the frame is paramount for Walter Hill's films, as this sequence from Hard Times (1975) beautifully demonstrates.
Invitation to the Dance
This sequence from Streets of Fire (1984) is the bold opening to Walter Hill's ambitious "rock and roll fable."
Ghosts of War
Walter Hill incisively used genre frameworks to address America's unreconciled historical traumas in films such as Southern Comfort (Walter Hill, 1981).
Cowboy Iliads
The Long Riders (1980, clip) is Walter Hill's richest Western, but all of his films are shaped by the myths of the West and the traditions of the Homeric epics.
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John Boorman
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Montage
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James Gray
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Color
-
Lynne Ramsay
-
Darius Khondji
