Description
Book Synopsis This is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire and many more. The book covers every motion picture that Hill directed, with historical detail and critical commentary on each, and discusses Hill''s overall cultural relevance and industrial impact. It includes candid conversations with Hill; producer Larry Gordon; actors Nicholas Guest, William Sadler and Michael Pare; cinematographers Lloyd Ahern and Matthew Leonetti; composers Van Dyke Parks and David Mansfield; screenwriter Larry Gross, and others who worked with Hill throughout his prolific career.
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments vi
- Foreword by Allan Graf 1
- Introduction 5
- One—Walter: Writer 7
- Two—Hard Times, Harder Men 17
- Three—Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young 68
- Four—"Blow something up!" 96
- Five—Tales for Television and Way Out West 127
- Six—Same Director, Different Hollywood 176
- Seven—"It's a collaboration": A Celebration of Walter Hill 198
- Interviewees and Dates 205
- Index 207
