Waverly Midnights

Wild Hill: Walter Hill at Midnight
Friday, April 13 - Saturday, June 23, 2012
Come out to plaaaay for our late-night salute to the criminally underappreciated Walter Hill, one of the last great action directors standing. All shows free for Auteur-level members!
“A peerless action craftsman… [Hill’s work is] as tight as a clenched fist, with not a word wasted in the dialogue and a simplicity of expression that extends from character development to the diamond-tight action sequences.” – The Onion A.V. Club
“Every film I’ve done has been a Western… The Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dramatic problems are, beyond the normal avenues of social control and social alleviation of the problem, and I like to do that even within contemporary stories.” – Walter Hill
“I’m influenced by HARD TIMES, THE DRIVER, and THE WARRIORS.” – Walter Hill
Another 48 Hrs.
Friday, April 20 - Saturday, April 21, 201235mm print "Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte reteam as the convict and the cop in this savage sequel centering around their efforts to nail a drug kingpin before his gang ices them. Director... more...
The Long Riders
Friday, April 27 - Saturday, April 28, 201235mm print "Hill's film holds its head high in a distinguished company of movies about the Jesse James/Cole Younger gang, refusing to bother too much about historical facts or psychological... more...
Streets of Fire
Friday, May 11 - Saturday, May 12, 201235mm print "Continuing his love affair with movies that go bang in the night, Hill here gives us a futuristic rock fantasy which is, at heart, a Western. An itinerant soldier (Paré) returns... more...
Geronimo: An American Legend
Friday, May 18 - Saturday, May 19, 201235mm print "This is the authentically bloody chronicle of the last Apache leader, as recorded in the memoirs of one of the cavalrymen who hunted him down. It's a film about the land and... more...
The Warriors
Friday, May 25 - Sunday, May 27, 2012High-definition digital projection (Please note: due to a shipping error, we will not be able to show the 35mm print we originally booked for this engagement. We apologize for the inconvenience.) "From... more...
Hard Times
Friday, June 1 - Saturday, June 2, 201235mm print "Walter Hill (The Warriors) made a very impressive transition from screenwriter to director with this Depression story of a street fighter (Charles Bronson) and his... more...
Hickey & Boggs
Friday, June 8 - Saturday, June 9, 201235mm print "The first film from a Walter Hill script turns out to be as interesting for the assurance of Culp's direction as for Hill's contribution. Hickey & Boggs pairs television's... more...
The Getaway
Friday, June 15 - Saturday, June 16, 2012High-definition digital projection "An evident precursor to The Driver (Walter Hill scripted both, this one from Jim Thompson's novel). The major strength of THE GETAWAY rests... more...
Last Man Standing
Friday, June 22 - Saturday, June 23, 2012High-definition digital projection "Highly-stylised... Hill's remake of Kurosawa's samurai classic Yojimbo places the story in the Prohibition era, with Italian and Irish bootleggers... more...
















