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deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Walter Hill was honored with a Tribute Ceremony in France on Tuesday evening, which marked the opening night of the International Thriller Film Festival – Reims Polar.A retrospective of Hill’s films are being shown at the festival, which runs through April 10, including The Warriors, 48 Hrs., starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, Extreme Prejudice, Last Man Standing and Bullet to the Head, starring Sylvester Stallone.
The filmmaker attended a screening of his film Southern Comfort in Paris earlier this week, and will be presenting a masterclass moderated by Jean-Francois Rauger, who serves as Head of Programming at La Cinémathèque française.Hill’s many other credits include the Westerns The Long Riders, Geronimo: An American Legend and Wild Bill.
He co-produced Alien and served as producer or exec producer on its three sequels, winning an Emmy and DGA Award in 2005 for the pilot of HBO’s Deadwood.
He also directed AMC’s Broken Trail, for which he won an Emmy Award for producing and a DGA Award for directing. Hill most recently wrote and directed the upcoming western Dead for a Dollar, starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan and Benjamin Bratt.The International Thriller Film Festival moved last year to Reims, after spending 25 years in Cognac and 12 years in Beaune.
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