Walter Hill on Blu-ray

[SeanJoyce]

Directed films only

Tough, lean, economical, and colorful are just a few choice words for a guy who's been a pillar of American cinema for decades. Spawned from the macho lineage of guys like Raoul Walsh, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Don Siegel, Robert Aldrich, Jean-Pierre Melville and Sam Peckinpah, Hill made a profound impact on the action film and has been one of the few noteworthy filmmakers who has struggled to keep the western a viable genre. Hill's films are renowned for their spartan minimalism; tightly-composed, not a shot is wasted as terse dialogue and bursts of violence breathlessly propel the action forward.

There have been smatterings of reappraisals of Hill's work, but we're really due for a full-blown revival of the guy who essentially invented the buddy cop genre as we know it, salvaged the Alien franchise, and gave pop culture "CAN YOU DIG IT?!" A true iconoclast, Hill made the movies that he wanted to make, and his pared-down genre tales of stoic men in a brutal, fantastical world evoked through the lost art of efficeintly telling a story have made him my #1 favorite filmmaker for years now.

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