At 80 years old, he still has that blue gaze from which emerges a burst of sadness.
The great Walter Hill, legendary Hollywood filmmaker of the 1970s and 1980s, celebrated in 2005 by the Cinémathèque française for his western-style action films, is passing through Paris.
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The director of
48 hours
,
Driver
,
Extreme Prejudice
or
Warriors of the night
was invited to the second edition of Reims thriller (the first in physics) to show some unpublished excerpts from his new film,
Dead for a Dollar
, a neo-western with Christoph Waltz which should be released on French screens in the fall.
With humour, a touch of detachment and almost philosophical reflections, he looks back on his career… without forgetting to mention Will Smith's slap at the Oscars.
LE FIGARO.
- Why aren't action movies still considered great cinema?
Walter Hill.
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Part of the problem lies in the very definition of action film as a film genre.
When a…
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