Best Walter Hill Movie

Kino Lorber puts out the Blu on Dec 2... Tarantino's New Beverly in LA is showing it next week.

Walter Hill's got a new one coming soon, TOMBOY, A REVENGER'S TALE, starring Michelle Rodriguez. IMDb synopsis:

Following an ace assassin who is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman now a hitwoman sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.

Wish it was Mickey Rourke in the lead.

Maron interviews:

http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-805-walter-hill

i really need to get on that Japanese region 1 blu ray of Extreme Prejudice mentioned upthread.

I've hardly seen any of this guy's films but Streets Of Fire is a really mixed bag, the hero is surrounded by better acting than he's delivering, he's excessively reckless even for the character and passes up an early opportunity to shut down the villain.
Liked the Cooder tracks, loved the Jim Steinman end song.

Had another look at The Driver... really a deadpan existential comedy when it works (80% of the time). Bruce Dern never better. Apparently Isabelle Adjani felt she made a bad choice in doingf a genre film for her first Hollywood project, and got offered only crap in the USA after it flopped.

where can you even watch The Driver?

at the Metrograph yesterday!

also the Blu released in 2013, which i've never seen. I think the Alamo video store might have it.

it's kind of shameful that Extreme Prejudice remains unaccounted for on blu-ray stateside. Shout! Factory should get on that.

XP...and the DVD is still in print and cheap (The domestic Blu is one of those OOP Twilight Time limited editions meaning $$$$)

I watched it on Blu-Ray in 2013 and the print was good.

or maybe it was the DVD; my library had it.

the TRANSFER

it is INSANE that the two songs on the Streets of Fire soundtrack by "Fire Inc." are 6 and 7 minutes long respectively

i mean i love "Nowhere Fast" as much as the next guy but it's 6 minutes with no changes in dynamics or tempo or anything, just relentless uptempo '80s hard pop

How is it that there's no Streets of Fire thread and very little discussion itt? I would've thought it was right up ILX's alley.

Just saw it for the first time. Yes, it's dumb as a brick and all style/no substance. But oh what style! I guess yr enjoyment will depend on how you feel about the notion of Hill making a spiritual sequel to The Warriors which also functions as a film adaptation of 'Holding Out for a Hero', with all of the depth and narrative complexity of the latter.

I'll acknowledge that it isn't actually good but I could probably make a quick list of fifty things I loved about it.

I saw The Warriors in a theater during its first release. I was probably one of the only people who ever deliberately chose to see this because it was said to be based on Xenophon's Anabasis. I left the theater a bit disappointed that the Xenophon angle had been so muted, but on the whole I was a satisfied customer. It had panache.

Well this looks promising

https://mzsworldstore.com/products/pre-order-a-walter-hill-film-hardcover-signed

Should be awesome; Chaw is great. His segment on 48 Hours in last year's Netflix series Voir is worth a watch too.

Pre-ordered. Hill has deserved serious analysis for a long fuckin' time. (I'm very curious how Chaw will deal with Extreme Prejudice, a movie I love unreservedly.)

He really had one of the greatest streaks of any director ever... Hard Times, The Driver, The Warriors, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort and 48 Hrs. in less than a decade? Jesus.

For some reason, the release of "Extreme Prejudice" made a big impression on me. I remember the print ad in the paper, I vaguely remember the Siskel & Ebert review. That was back in 1987, when I would scour listings and magazines and make spreadsheets of upcoming movies I wanted to see, mostly Hollywood and genre stuff, because I was 12. And yet, I never got around to actually seeing the movie ... until tonight. It's got a heck of a pedigree, not just Walter Hill or some lingering John Milius madness but a cast of all sorts of familiar faces: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Rip Torn, Michael Ironside, María Conchita Alonso, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, Clancy Brown, Larry B. Scott (from "Revenge of the Nerds"), "Tiny" Lister, a bunch of other background randos I recognized.

And you know what? Despite its pedigree, it's just not that good. It's like 30 minutes of movie stretched out to just over 90, and while it aims for "The Wild Bunch" it's got a lot more in common with an episode of "The A*Team." The score, too; Ry Cooder gets a credit for handling the traditional Mexican music that sometimes gets a spotlight, but most of the music is a totally incongruous synthed-out score from Jerry Goldsmith, which does the grimy, sweaty locations no favors. Kind of a bummer, imo. Feels rushed and incomplete, less an unpolished gem and more just kind of a dull rock.

New Bluray of Southern Comfort happening:

https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage/products/southern-comfort

2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region Free Blu-ray
4K UHD presented in High-Dynamic-Range
Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm interpositive
Commentary track with Walter Chaw, author of A Walter Hill Film: Tragedy and Masculinity in the Films of Walter Hill
"Battle in the Bayou" (17 min) - brand new interview with co-writer / director Walter Hill
"Behind Enemy Lines" (26 min) - brand new featurette with editor Freeman A. Davies and assistant editor Lisa Zeno Churgin
"Soldiers, Not Mailmen" (17 min) - brand new interview with costumer Dan Moore
"Into the Unknown" (15 min) - brand new interview with film historian Wayne Byrne on Southern Comfort and the legacy of Walter Hill
Archival featurette featuring interviews with: co-writer / director Walter Hill and co-writer / producer David Giler, along with actors Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Peter Coyote and Lewis Smith (27 min)

I watched it on Blu-Ray in 2013 and the print was good.

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or maybe it was the DVD; my library had it.

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the TRANSFER

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Trespass is a really fun movie