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Maverick writer-director Walter Hill's version of the famous Wild Bill Hickok legend is a dreamscape western that is told entirely in flashback. Hickok's friend Charley Prince (John Hurt) narrates the events of Wild Bill's life while sitting at Bill's graveside. Hickok is played by Jeff Bridges as a mean, high-spirited, but gallant outlaw.
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Walter Hill is a screenwriter-director who, although he's responsible for some of the biggest hits of the 1980s, has yet to truly rise above cult status since his failures outnumber his successes. Hill has tried his hand at a variety of genres, including Westerns, science-fiction, drama, musicals, Film Noir, comedy, and cop flicks. His films often feature macho protagonists and explosive ultra-violence.
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All K-5 classes at Walter Hill have one computer for every five students. Each K-6 teacher at the school has a multimedia center that includes a large screen TV, VCR, computer, computer network connection and a printer. Technology is integrated into all subject areas.
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Walter Hill has made some of Hollywood's most seminal films, from The Warriors, to 48 Hours, The Long Riders, Southern Comfort and Streets of Fire. The son of a ship's riveter, director/writer Hill studied art in Mexico City, hoping to become a cartoonist; he later transferred to the journalism department at the University of Michigan. Following several years in various jobs, Hill wrote a few documentary films and gained work as an assistant director on such major productions as The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Bullitt (1968). Establishing himself in Hollywood as a screenwriter (The Getaway [1972], The Drowning Pool [1975] and others), Hill received his first directing opportunity with Hard Times (1975), a virile tale about bare-knuckles boxing starring Charles Bronson and James Coburn. Hill's The Warriors (1979), was a powerful but controversial story of gang violence that was banned from several theaters for allegedly inciting real-life gang wars. The director's biggest moneymaker of the early 1980s was 48 Hours (1982), which made a star of Eddie Murphy.
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The movies by Walter Hill featured in the festival are The Driver, The Warriors, and The Long Riders from his early period as a director and then a much more recent film Undisputed. Like so many of Hill’s films, the cast lists read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood stars: Ryan O’Neal, Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Dern, and Ronee Blakley; James Remar, Lynne Thigpen, and Mercedes Ruehl; the brothers Carradine, Keach, Quaid, and Guest; Ving Rhames, Wesley Snipes, Peter Falk, and Wes Studi. These films demonstrate his ongoing interest in crime dramas, quests against long odds, the Western, and violent one-on-one confrontations. Although he broadened his focus, including more comedic and musical components in films such as the buddy picture 48 Hrs., with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy, the youth-oriented Streets of Fire, with Diane Lane and Willem Dafoe, Brewster’s Millions, with Richard Pryor and John Candy, Crossroads about the emergence of a music legend, and the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle Red Heat, Hill has consistently returned to the genres and themes outlined in the four films showing at MIFF. He is rare among contemporary directors to make a significant number of western films. In addition to his James gang saga The Long Riders, Hill has made Geronimo: An American Legend and Wild Bill.
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Walter Hill was born in Long Beach, California on January 10, 1942. In his youth, he aspired to be a cartoonist. After studing art in Mexico, Hill attended the University of Michigan as a journalism student. The IMDb claims Hill then worked "in oil drilling and construction in the '60s before becoming a 2nd assistant director in 1967." As an assistant director, Hill labored on films like The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt.
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