In this episode of the show our 80s Action Solstice is entering its final month. Over the course of the next couple of weeks we will be discussing the 80s efforts of Walter Hill and we begin with the 1980 The Long Riders. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Walter Hill as a filmmaker who had always wanted to make westerns but was born in the wrong era, whether hiring multiple sets of real-life brothers to act in the movie was a gimmick or an inspired choice, and if The Long Riders is Walter Hill’s idea of temporarily giving the genre of western a farewell. We also talk about violence in slow-motion as a means of extending internalized nightmares, aestheticizing tattered imagery, the frightening concept of entertaining house guests with a mouth harp and much more!

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Featuring: Jak-Luke Sharp

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