Walter Hill’s 1981 men on a mission/survival classic SOUTHERN COMFORT will be released in a new 4K-UltraHD edition by Vinegar Syndrome on February 27th. Buy from Amazon Synopsis: Set during the height of the Vietnam War and deep in the swamps of Louisiana, a group of National Guardsmen have been […]
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The new Furious Cinema Podcast is a show hosted by Pete and Seb. Join us for discussions on our favorite movies as well as other topics of interest. In this episode we turn our attention to one of our favorite filmmakers. Pete & Seb discuss the many films of one […]
Waxwork Records who recently re-released the brilliant TAXI DRIVER soundtrack, have another special treat for film geeks on the way: the original full score to Walter Hill’s 1979 cult classic THE WARRIORS. THE WARRIORS centers on a tough street gang from Coney Island who are framed by rivals for the […]
Walter Hill’s 1981 cult classic survival film SOUTHERN COMFORT is coming to Blu Ray/DVD on July 8th from Shout Factory. A Louisiana National Guard troop (played by Powers Boothe, Keith Carradine, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, TK Carter et al) are sent on a training exercise that takes them through the […]
“Well, you know Chick, like old momma said, next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing.” Walter Hill’s crackerjack Depression era film HARD TIMES (1975) was his directorial debut. Before this he had been a screenwriter on several films including Hickey & Boggs and The Getaway. Charles […]
Director Walter Hill is one of our heroes at Furious Cinema, so thats why we’ll be commenting on many of his film trailers in the future. I wanted to start out with his 1978 crime action thriller neo noir The Driver because we haven’t covered it on the site yet […]
Walter Hill got his start in film as an assistant director on Bullitt (1968), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Woody Allen’s screwball crime comedy Take The Money and Run (1969). He then moved on to writing screenplays for such classics as Robert Culp’s Hickey & Boggs (1972) and Sam […]
After making his buddy cop hit 48 Hrs., Walter Hill directed a film that was inspired by the movies he grew up on. It was a wild homage filled with the kinds of images and themes he loved most about those movies such as: “custom cars, kissing in the rain, […]
In 1972, Robert Culp (Hannie Caulder) directed this neo-noir crime film set in Los Angeles. Culp co-wrote the screenplay with Walter Hill who would make his directorial debut with Hard Times (1975). Culp also cast his longtime friend and I Spy series co-star Bill Cosby in the role of Hickey. […]
Name a director that has made rock solid, gritty and entertaining cinema but hardly anyone knows the name of. Yeah of course I am talking about Walter Hill, hence the headline. He is one of my favorite low-profile directors working today. I really dig some of his work a lot, […]