EPISODE 302: Walter Hill.

"In my films, when somebody puts a gun in your face,
character is how many times you blink."

The Pink Smoke’s John Cribbs recently appeared on the Wrong Reel podcast along with host James Hancock to discuss one of Hollywood's most unique auteurs, Walter Hill. Mixing a heightened comic-book aesthetic with the moral compass of Jean-Pierre Melville, Hill put a singular stamp on genre filmmaking.

Join Cribbs and Hancock as they cover Hill's beginnings as a screenwriter for Sam Peckinpah and a producer on Alien through his seminal late 70's work on The Warriors, The Driver, and Hard Times as well as his massively successful 48 Hours - and all points along a winding, circuituous, curious career that led him through Westerns, heist films, Deliverance knock-offs, Richard Pryor comedies, "rock'n'roll fables," boxing movies, and one movie where Steve Vai plays Satan. Whatever else you can say about him, there's nobody else like Walter Hill.

~ AUGUST 2, 2017 ~