One of the problems of going back through Walter Hill's filmography, film by film, shot by shot, is how films by others suddenly seem worse.
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Replying to @mangiotto
The opening shot of The Warriors is one of the most thrilling, eerily beautiful openings in all of cinema.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
100%. That movie is beautiful. Mercy is one of my favorite characters in any movie.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
Totally. Pauline Kael's review of it is an all-timer. She calls it alight like a jukebox shining out from a dark night club.
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
Right? I'm very luke warm on Kael, but when she was right, no one was righter.
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Replying to @mangiotto
Yeah there're passages in her work that cut right to the heart of a film's beauty or articulate it in a way that helps me appreciate it more
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Replying to @carolynmichelle
And then there's the other stuff that's small and mean.
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