The Warriors
Action! If there’s one word associated with cinema, the tension of movie sets, and the focus of attention, it’s this one. Action is very often at the heart of popular cinema: Harold Lloyd hanging from the clock hands in Safety Last! (1923), Cary Grant threatened and strafed by a plane in North by Northwest (1959), Franka Potente gasping for air in Run Lola Run (1998)... Westerns, swashbuckler films, martial arts or adventure flicks, thrillers, all these genres rely on action—sometimes frenetic, sometimes meticulously measured.
From movies by Sergei Eisenstein to Gilles Carle, from John Ford to John Boorman and Werner Herzog, via Paul Verhoeven, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook, Érik Canuel, and Nicolas Winding Refn, this series will take you through the full range of emotions, from laughter to thrills, from fear to satisfaction.
Wrongly accused of murder during a major gathering of New York gangs in the Bronx, the Warriors embark on a perilous journey back to their home turf in Coney Island, with every gangs and the police hot on their heels. A key figure in 1970s and 1980s action cinema, Walter Hill revives the conventions of the Western in an epic tale of urban violence and nighttime survival. A cult film bursting with energy.
Walter Hill
Walter Hill is an American producer, filmmaker, and screenwriter, known for his Western-style action films. He started his career as a second unit director on two films starring Steve McQueen: Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair and Peter Yates's Bullitt. At the start of the 1970s, he wrote several screenplays, including the one for Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway. Hill transitioned to directing in 1975 with Hard Times, starring a Charles Bronson at the peak of his popularity. Then, he wrote and directed The Driver (1978), filled with exceptional car chases and one or the rare American films to star Isabelle Adjani. In 1979, he directed the cult film The Warriors, offering a look into the violent world of street gangs. He then produce Ridley Scott's Alien, which became an international success. As a producer or screenwriter, Hill worked on various Alien sequels, without directing any of them. He also achieved great commercial success with 48 Hrs. (1983) and its sequel (1990), starring Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy.
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