Michael Schlesinger on STREETS OF FIRE
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2023
- Director Walter Hill reimagines The Wild One as a rock and roll musical set in a fantasyland version of the 1950s. Featuring a superb cast of rockers and bikers including Michael Paré, Diane Lane, and Rick Moranis, the film was scored with charttoppers Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks. Despite the star power the film flopped at the box office but has since acquired a sizable following among film fans.
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STREETS OF FIRE was ahead of it's time ❤ this movie!
Lets not forget the great songs by Jim Steinman!
And this was Diane Lane's second film as the lead singer of a band after Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains.
My favourite Walter Hill film. Skipped school with a friend to watch this at the cinema during the Autumn of '84. Bought the soundtrack album shortly after. Have rewatched the film at least 40 times since. Amy Madigan is fantastic and i'm very fond of the film's editing style. One of those American films that was better received by European audiences.
True. It played in Germany for months. Actually, the setting of this film strongly resembles Hamburg of the 80's.
Saw it in 84. Great 80’s movies.
My favorite Walter Hill film. I like The Warriors and Southern Comfort too, but I always end up coming back to this film. 😊
And this movie is why I'm in love with Diane Lane some 40 years on.
True love - like Rock 'n Roll - never dies.
🤘😎🤘
You wouldn't believe how many times I listen to the "Tonight is what it means to be young" song on my favourite car music CD.
It's a pity it's so obscure. I consider it the perfect Jim Steinman song. It says everything he's trying to say in every other song he ever wrote.
@@Seraph4377I ended up buying the whole soundtrack on iTunes.
I'm hoping Ry Cooder's music from the film is one day released. Loved his score for Hill's The Long Riders and Southern Comfort.
Worth it for the soundtrack alone!
i can dream about you
A perfect triple feature is Streets of Fire, Eddie and the Cruisers, and The Warriors.
Great film, loved everyone in it including Michael Pare!
Yeah, I never understood those who consider Pare's performance the film's fatal flaw. He appears to be channeling Robert Mitchum here.
I remember he also had a Recurring Role on The Greatest American Hero.
@@SoulStylistJukeBoxMichael Paré is one of my all time favorite actors. Tom Cody works because he doesn’t say a lot to get things done.
He's Terrible in this movie.
I love this Movie.
It's like a Western/Musical Set in Modern Times.
Named after a Bruce Springsteen song. Bruce pulled the use of the song once he discovered that the filmmakers intended to have “Ellen Aim and the Attackers” sing it during the film (instead of using the version he recorded).
Not a great film, but unique and enjoyable, goofy, and simultaneously dark and colorful. One of those odd 80s films that I really fondly look back on. Walter Hill is a real treasure, such a fun and creative filmography. One of my favorite filmmakers.
Excellent choice. A guilty pleasure. This is one of those "perfect" movies. It completely fulfills its aims and goals. Sheer fun. And, yeah, this film much be watched at full volume.
thanks Michael
I love this film. One of my favorite Walter Hill fims
I've seen most of Walter Hills filmography. This is one I have yet to watch.
I enjoyed it and love the soundtrack. I still have the LP.
How can you not mention the immortal Jim Steinman !
Odd that Tarantino never mentions Walter Hill. James Remar played not one but two characters in Django Unchained so i'll assume QT digs Hill's work.
he talks a lot about him in the book he published last year about the 70s
@@ajdc88 Thank you. Will investigate.
I saw this oddball at the cinema on first release. I can't remember if I liked it (or what happens in it).
Saw this at a Kevin Smith hosted screening at the theater he owns in NJ. Though I can't agree that I liked it, I do agree with you Michael that Amy Madigan does steal the show when she's on screen.
Now I want to see it. Seems quite the period piece - and not the fifties.
The opening titles warn us that we're entering "Another Time, Another Place", and that describes the setting perfectly. The setting is American Rock & Roll.
The clothes, styles and cars say 1955. The music says 1983. I say it's a must see for 80's movies and one that I own on DVD.
It's goofy, fun, a multiple watch movie, and the soundtrack just kicks ass. When I watch it I'm back in highschool.
great movie! diane lane was absolute fire
she’s such a cutie patootie 🙈
Here's a random request for the folks at TFH: _The Groundstar Conspiracy_ a 1972 thriller. For some reason, this movie kept popping into my head as I was trying to sleep last night, although I have not seen it for 50 years. I remember something in the trailer about a surprise ending, although I don't recall how it ended. Please carry on.
"Streets" reminds me of another, much higher-profile flop from 1984: "Dune." "Streets of Fire" almost feels like a sister production to that film in many ways, with the lead actor previously being a singer (as Eddie from "Eddie and the Cruisers"), which is such a David Lynch casting choice (see also Sting in "Dune," Chris Isaak and David Bowie in the Twin Peaks movie, plus many, many performances --lip-synced and otherwise-- in other Lynch projects).
Speaking of tunes, whereas the music of "Dune" came from a very un-Lynch place of the Vienna orchestra and Vienna Volksoper Choir, "Streets" gets its flavor from the late '50s, an era David Lynch regularly draws from. (He once answered without hesitation that if he could travel to any year, he'd go to 1958.) If it didn't jump out at you, the song in the trailer (and at least one other one in the film) were by Jim Steinman, who penned anthemic tracks like everything you remember by Meatloaf and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler, often eschewing modern trends and instead invoking '50s tropes slathered with epic reverb on a drum kit seemingly booming from Valhalla.
"Streets" also features Willem Dafoe doing his best impression of a long, lost Harkonnen nephew from Lynch's adaptation, right down to living in factory on the east coast of Geidi Prime and tailoring his signature outfit from a black rubber body bag (which is what the Sardaukar costumes were made from in the 1984 production... no joke!). What do you call that thing anyway? Over-alls that didn't go all the way over the top like his performance? Dafoe's psychotic obsession with a nightclub singer certainly anticipates Dennis Hopper's role in Lynch's "Blue Velvet" a couple years later, but it wasn't until 1990 that Lynch finally cast Dafoe as a villain in his similarly '50s-centric "Wild At Heart."
And like "Dune," this film also fell victim to cuts from higher-ups who over-rode the director. I always wondered why the "Streets" felt a little watered down, and I guess the PG cut explains how a potentially sharp movie got dulled so badly it didn't leave a mark on audiences. Sadly, we'll never see the original cut of the film, just as Lynch will forever deny us a proper director's cut of "Dune."
Like Michael Schlesinger says, "Streets" clearly takes place in an alternate universe. Even if we concede that it objectively isn't a good movie, it still does what all good movies do in that it takes you away to another place for a couple hours (or 93 minutes to be exact... thanks to the cuts). The tagline of Lynch's "Dune" promised "a world beyond your experience, beyond your imagination," and while "Streets" never leaves Earth, it's just as much time travel as "Dune" was space travel. It's worth the trip.
Interesting take. As a fan of Lynch's Dune it took a second watch to really appreciate what Hill was trying to do. Like Lynch's film for me I really approached it from a different perspective to really appreciate it.
I doubt the cuts had that much of an impact on the running time, as many of Hill’s films were of a similar length to Streets of Fire.
I never saw this movie....
But oddly, I remember the trailer.
Streets of Fire was one of the highlights of B Fest back in February... it is also one of a handful of films ... Singles is another... where the soundtrack had a much larger impact on the culture than the film did....
Love the movie and love the soundtrack.
This is like a Western Crossed with a Musical, and with Bikers as the Villains instead of Indians.
Again, Universal botched another release. We want the DC! 😢
Hill's cut actually wasn't much longer.
What I wouldn't give for a directors cut. On par with the loss of Orson Welles cut of Magnificent Ambersons
I never knew this movie was hacked up until today. What I would give also to see the directors cut.
What was the original version you saw like? Please tell me!
Jim Steinman songs !
I love this movie, but you’ve really made me sad by telling me there was an R-rated cut I’ll never get to see.
From what i’ve read, it was just a few moments of nudity and violence. After Test Screening feedback, Universal were terrified the film would bomb so decided to trim it down to a PG shortly before release.
@@SoulStylistJukeBox "Just" nudity and violence? 😁
@@vksjd LoL
hill's JOHNNY HANDSOME and TRESPASS are underrated...
JOHNNY HANDSOME is a great neo-noir. Very little action but tonnes of mood and atmosphere.
Yep, Johnny Handsome is terrific. I love how lean Hill's film are - most clocking in at under 145 minutes. Ellen Barkin is also ace in Hill's tragicly overlooked Wild Bill.
Yeah, pare stinks but he's surrounded by all-timers really giving it the business.
That Cameron shade was cringe as fuck.