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.

REGION A

INTERNATIONAL

4k

[Bluyoda]

Great director, for sure.

I just want a remastered transfer of "Crossroads" with Ralph Macchio and Steve Vai and uncompressed audio on Blu-ray. I have been waiting for it since the inception of the format. It's such a good movie, and hugely influential to generations of guitar players, including myself:


Here is my rendition of the winning guitar duel part:

[Show spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX90HcWdAhI

I watched this movie countless times when I was a child, but it's only available on bloody DVD.

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by Bluyoda

[Show spoiler]Great director, for sure.

I just want a remastered transfer of "Crossroads" with Ralph Macchio and Steve Vai and uncompressed audio on Blu-ray. I have been waiting for it since the inception of the format. It's such a good movie, and hugely influential to generations of guitar players, including myself:


Here is my rendition of the winning guitar duel part:

[Show spoiler]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX90HcWdAhI

I watched this movie countless times when I was a child, but it's only available on bloody DVD.

Crossroads is one of the few Hill films I haven't seen, but such a different film for him would be a certified blind buy if it gets released.

If/when that day comes, I'll come back to your rendition

[Archedamian]

I am loving these director threads that have popped up within the last day or two!

[AKORIS]

in looking over his resume-- my collection is pretty complete!

THE DRIVER is my #1 want title--

and a remastered version of 48 HRS!

[cheez avenger]

You can also get Another 48hrs on digital HD in proper OAR, as well.

[bsend]

We need an untouched theatrical version of the Warriors.

[rocknblues81]

Undisputed needs a blu ray also.

[MJD64]

A worthy thread for a terrific director...but it is missing Hill's last film, THE ASSIGNMENT.

[Purploros]

Originally Posted by bsend

We need an untouched theatrical version of the Warriors.

What’s touched about the German Blu-ray?

[Member-167298]

Streets of Fire is perhaps one of the most criminally overlooked and underrated movies in history. The whole film has such an energy to it.

[The Great Owl]

Great thread. The Driver and Southern Comfort are my favs.

[DR Herbert West]

Really need Another 48 hrs.

[cheez avenger]

[captainron_howdy]

Awesome Director and thread, Trespass is a treasure.

[mediocre]

It's been beat to death in the Kino thread, but I'm really hoping we get Extreme Prejudice on blu at some point this year.

[DVD Josh]

One of my favorite directors! Going to check out a few of these that were off my radar. Just ordered Broken Trail for starters.

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

Great thread. The Driver and Southern Comfort are my favs.

Choosing a favorite Hill film is like choosing a favorite child (that is, I imagine it would be if I had kids ), but Southern Comfort has held steady at my #1 for quite a while now. Finally finding it at a video store when I was young was like striking the mother lode.

That was on the heels of my dad showing my brothers and I The Warriors. Movie nights were (and still are, when we get them) a special thing growing up, and my dad did right in showing us some of the stuff that he liked when he was younger. The Warriors rocked my f'n world; a group of guys battling their way back to their turf amidst a kaleidoscope of colorful street gangs was the coolest thing I had ever seen up until that point. I burned through video stores' copies every weekend until I received the VHS, with that awesomely iconic cover art, for Christmas.

After I started consciously looking at the names behind the movies, Hill's dossier read like I was the primary audience. In a world drowned in big budget excess and pontificating, Hill's pared-back stories about professionalism, camaraderie and survival hit right on the sweet spot.

[Surge92]

Originally Posted by Purploros

What’s touched about the German Blu-ray?

You mean the German blu-ray has the original theatrical version without the comic book prologue?

[SeanJoyce]

Originally Posted by Surge92

You mean the German blu-ray has the original theatrical version without the comic book prologue?

[Show spoiler]