#Sol Yurick

[brokehorrorfan]

The Warriors will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 12 via Arrow Video. Laurie Greasley designed the new cover art for the 1979 action thriller; the original poster is on the reverse side.

Walter Hill (48 Hrs., Deadwood) directs from a script he co-wrote with David Shaber (Nighthawks), based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel. Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Marcelino Sánchez, and David Harris lead the ensemble cast.

The limited edition set comes with a 100-page book featuring new writing by film critic Dennis Cozzalio plus archival material, a double-sided poster, six art carts, and gang logo stickers.

Both the theatrical cut and the 2005 alternate version have been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, approved by Hill, with Dolby Vision. The theatrical cut is presented in its original 1.85:1 with original uncompressed mono, stereo 2.0, and Dolby Atmos audio. The alternate cut has stereo 2.0 and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio.

Special features for the two-disc set are listed below, where you can also see more of the packaging and contents.

Disc 1 - Theatrical Cut:

Audio commentary by A Walter Hill Film author Walter Chaw (new)

Isolated score option

Interview with director Walter Hill (new)

Roundtable discussion on The Warriors with filmmakers Josh Olson (A History of Violence), Lexi Alexander (Green Street), and Robert D. Krzykowski (The Man Who Killed Hitler and then Bigfoot) (new)

Interview with editor Billy Weber (new)

Interview with costume designer Bobbie Mannix (new)

Costume designs and photographs from the archive of designer Bobbie Mannix (new)

Sound of the Streets - An appreciation on Barry De Vorzon's The Warriors score by film historian Neil Brand (new)

Filming location tour (new)

The Beginning - Making-of featurette with director Walter Hill, producer Lawrence Gordon, actor James Remar, and editor David Holden

Battleground - Featurette on shooting in New York City with director Walter Hill and assistant director David O. Sosna

The Way Home - Featurette on the look of the film with director of photography Andrew Laszlo

The Phenomenon - Featurette on the film's legacy with director Walter Hill and cast members

Theatrical trailer

Image gallery

Disc 2 - Alternate Version:

Introduction by director Walter Hill

Also included:

100-page book with new writing by film critic Dennis Cozzalio plus archival material

Double-sided fold-out poster with original and new art

6 postcard-sized art cards

Gang logo stickers

In New York the gangs outnumber the cops by 5-1. Together, they could rule the city. Gang-leader Cyrus has a dream to do just that and calls a summit. The gangs of New York gather in their thousands, Cyrus takes the stage. From somewhere in the crowd a shot rings out and Cyrus falls down dead. In the chaos that follows, a small gang from Coney Island – the Warriors – are blamed. Now everyone is out to get them. On foot, in enemy territory, can they make it through the night to get back across the city to the safety of home turf?

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#the warriors #walter hill #james remar #michael beck #david harris #70s movies #1970s movies #exploitation #arrow video #dvd #gift #laurie greasley #sol yurick

[zaat]

The Warriors by Sol Yurick

#sol yurick #the warriors

[rembrandts-spraypaint]

The Dominators [The Warriors book] and The Warriors should do a crossover fr I feel like they would get along. Especially Hinton and Rembrandt or Lunkface and Ajax

#the warriors 1979 #the warriors movie #the warriors book #the warriors #the warriors game #the warriors (movie) #the warriors (game) #ajax (the warriors) #cleon (the warriors) #cochise (the warriors) #cowboy (the warriors) #fox (the warriors) #rembrandt (the warriors) #snow (the warriors) #swan (the warriors) #mercy (the warriors) #vermin (the warriors) #hinton (the warriors) #lunkface (the warriors) #sol yurick #seriously the dominators really need some actually decent people to be around #Cleon would 100% adopt the youngest ones #keep in mind the dominators are literal CHILDREN all except one are under 18

[bebe-benzenheimer]

Film Meme - (2/10) Films-The Warriors (directed by Walter Hill)

“Can you dig it?”

#film meme #fyeahmovies #doyouevenfilm #filmedit #movieedit #dailyflicks #the warriors #walter hill #sol yurick #my edits

[lospaziobianco]

The girl from The Warriors

#art #illustration #artists on tumblr #italian artists on tumblr #Patrizia Comino #The Warriors #Mercy #Deborah Van Valkenburgh #Walter Hill #Sol Yurick #movie #film

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Warriors (1979)

There’s much more to The Warriors than the iconic sound clip. You know, the one where David Patrick Kelly clinks bottles together and screeches “Warriors… come out tooo playyy-eyyy!”. It’s the kind of film that will make you wonder “what’s the big deal?”, until you realize it was made in 1979. Every decision regarding its characters, plot and style was a breakthrough at the time.

In the near future, criminal gangs who distinguish each other with distinct outfits, weapons or facepaint/masks have overrun the streets of New York. When Cyrus (Roger Hill), the leader of the Gramercy Riffs brings together nine unarmed representatives from every gang to propose a truce that would unite them all against the police, everyone seems on board. Then, Luther (Kelly), the sadistic leader of the Rogues assassinates him and pins the crime on the Warriors. Far from their turf, surrounded by enemies and without any weapons, it’ll be a long and dangerous trip home for them.

We’re reviewing the director’s cut, which is only marginally longer (76 seconds) but adds an introduction detailing the Battle of Cunaxa (which inspired the plot) and gives some of the scene transitions a comic book-like look. They’re necessary additions, but also not. When the picture was first released, it was called cartoonish, weird and implausible. These tweaks make it clear that we’re watching a tale set forward in time. Not a world where mankind has conquered the stars, but a dismal tomorrow where crime is rampant and gangs have adopted a version of war paint. Nearly every character in the film is a teenage male. Their criminal buddies – and make no mistake, these are criminals – are all they have. The only adults we see are police officers or civilians who barely escape the aimless youths. Parents are never mentioned or seen. Today, we’ve seen these ideas adapted and tweaked in multiple stories; everything from the villain-themed thugs in Batman Beyond to the sadistic masked killers in The Purge. It shows how influential this film is.

For the bulk of the picture, we’re following nine members of the Warriors. As their members dwindle, one character (played by Michael Beck) rises to become the protagonist. For the most part, you don’t get to know much of anyone’s backstory or even their names. The Warriors is about the immediacy of NOW. At any moment, the boys could take a wrong turn and die. You have no idea who could be next. Each moment of respite makes you feel uneasy. Who’s to say it isn’t a trap? Outgunned, and outnumbered, they have to bank on their wits to carry them through. If they can keep going long enough, the reputation they forge may be enough to get some of the small players to leave them alone out of fear. Even if they do make it home, however, this will only postpone their troubles. The entire city is still out for them and beyond that, they’re looking at bleak futures. There’s a key scene in which they come face-to-face with what could’ve been and it’s a devastating, sobering blow, a great moment you won’t forget.

Much of The Warriors is raw and unpolished, but that’s the way it should be. What cements it as a movie that will endure is its energy and the way it captures its themes and ideas. While it may have inspired others, there's nothing else quite like it. (On DVD, June 15, 2018)

#The Warriors #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Walter Hill #David Shaber #Sol Yurick #Michael Beck #James Remar #Deborah Van Valkenburgh #Marcelino Sanchez #David harris #Tom McKitterick #Brian Tyler #Dorsey Wright #1979 movies #1979 films

[annlarimer]

Conic Sections: An Interview with Sol Yurick - BLDGBLOG

#sol yurick #the warriors

[aiiaiiiyo]

#On set with The Warriors. A thriller based on Sol Yurick’s 1965 novel of the same name #was released in 1979. #Able_Draft_793 #oldschool

[withinycu]

The Warriors novel was genuinely one of the hardest reads I’ve had to do but I also think a lot about the ending because I don’t think you can write something so heartbreaking without a lot of love

#Sol Yurick was a social worker #who worked with inner city kids firsthand and wrote the book as a 'take that' #against West Side Story #it is horrifying and violent and one of the saddest books I ever read #'miracles are the way things ought to be' #but the world is so broken things going right can only be called miracles #an act of god/ something supernatural #but that's crap brothers #it's only ever been men who've performed the miracles #'its all out there we just have to reach out and take it' #'great now we just have to figure out what's worth taking' #all of it. it's ours by right. #can you dig it? #so very ooc

[owlpuddle]

Oh boy, I bet that LMM, a man so averse to yuckybad feelings that he said "what if I did 1776 but left out the slavery," is going to do a really great job

#the warriors #lin manuel miranda

[bestmusicalworldcup]

Lin-Manuel’s making a non Disney musical on his own for the first time since Hamilton? Frankly I didn’t think he would. And of course it takes place in New York.

[siriuslydandy]

 Lin-Manuel Miranda is working on a stage adaptation of Sol Yurick's novel, The Warriors, which follows rivaling gangs in 1960s New York City.

[billblasswithafatass]

i can’t talk enough about how walter hill and/or sol yurick could’ve been making big bank if they further the warriors into a tv series

#that game low-key ain’t do the movie a lot of justice #the warriors 1979

[monstroso]

14 and 24!

these are the exact ones I sent to the person i reblogged the meme from lmao

14. Favorite book you read this year?

LMAO. Anyone who's been following me for the past 8 months knows I got *really* into Thomas The Tank Engine in 2022. I grew up with the show, but only learned that the show was based on a series of children's books this year, and actually bought a copy of the collected works for myself. For the sheer novelty and joy it's brought me, the Favorite Book Award this year has to go to The Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry.

Runner-ups are all books I acquired in the descent into madness that has been my railfandom-ification, none of which I've finished but all of which have been super interesting: The Pioneer Zephyr, Silver Streak Across Nebraska by James J. Reisdorff and Michael M. Bartels, The Pioneer Zephyr by Carl R. Byron and Robert W. Rediske (yes these are two different books about the same train), and Thomas The Privatised Tank Engine by Incledon Clark-- a parody book about the privatization of British rail. I also was gifted a copy of The Warriors by Sol Yurick but haven't started it yet!

24. Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

I did, kind of! In February I resolved to get back down to the weight I was pre-pandemic (healthily, and with the intent to keep the weight off). Actually exceeded my goal and extremely proud of myself! Now 2023 is going to be the year of getting stronk. 💪

#askmeme #inawhiletotodile

[headaches-blog]

The warriors (1979)

The Warriors is a 1979 American action crime thriller film directed by Walter Hill. Based on Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name, it was released in the United States on February 9, 1979. The film centers on a fictitious New York City street gang who must travel 30 miles (48 km), from the north end of the Bronx to their home turf in Coney Island in southern Brooklyn, after they are framed for the murder of a respected gang leader.

Starring

Michael Beck as Swan

James Remar as Ajax

Deborah Van Valkenburgh as Mercy

Marcelino Sánchez as Rembrandt

David Harris as Cochise

Tom McKitterick as Cowboy

Brian Tyler as Snow

Dorsey Wright as Cleon

Terry Michos as Vermin

David Patrick Kelly as Luther

Roger Hill as Cyrus

Edward Sewer as Masai

Lynne Thigpen as the D.J.

Thomas G. Waites as Fox

Plot

Cyrus, leader of the Gramercy Riffs, the most powerful gang in New York City, requests that each of the city’s gangs send nine unarmed delegates to Van Cortlandt Park for a midnight summit. The Warriors, a multiracial gang from Coney Island, attend the summit. Cyrus proposes to the assembled crowd a citywide truce and alliance that would allow the gangs to control the city together, since they collectively outnumber the police by three to one.

Most of the gang members applaud this idea, but Luther, the unbalanced and sadistic leader of the Rogues, shoots Cyrus dead as police officers arrive to raid the summit. In the ensuing chaos, Luther realizes that one of the Warriors, Fox, appears to suspect him, and makes a false accusation which leads the vengeful Riffs to attack the "Warlord", Cleon. Meanwhile, the other Warriors escape, unaware that they have been implicated in Cyrus's killing. The Riffs put out a hit on the Warriors through a radio DJ. Swan, the "War Chief," takes charge of the group as they try get home, though the Warriors's main enforcer and brawler Ajax disagrees with Swan being leader over him.

The Turnbull ACs spot the Warriors and try to run them down with a modified school bus but the Warriors escape and board an elevated train. On the ride to Coney Island, the train is stopped by a building fire alongside the tracks, stranding the Warriors in Tremont. Setting out on foot, they encounter the Orphans, who are insecure about their low status in the gang hierarchy as they were excluded from Cyrus's meeting. After Mercy, the girlfriend of the Orphans' leader, instigates a confrontation, Swan throws a Molotov cocktail and the Warriors run to the nearest subway station. Impressed and desperate to escape her depressed neighborhood, Mercy follows the Warriors.

When the group arrives at the 96th Street and Broadway station in Manhattan, they are pursued by police and separated. Three of them, Vermin, Cochise and Rembrandt, escape by boarding a subway car. Fox, struggling with a police officer, is thrown onto the tracks and is fatally hit by a passing train as Mercy flees the scene. Swan, Ajax, Snow and Cowboy are chased by the Baseball Furies into Riverside Park but defeat them in a brawl. After the fight, Ajax sees a lone woman sitting on a park bench and leaves the group despite Swan's objections. When Ajax becomes sexually aggressive, the woman, revealed to be an undercover police officer, handcuffs him to the bench and arrests him.

Upon arriving at Union Square, Vermin, Cochise and Rembrandt are seduced by an all-female gang called the Lizzies and invited into their hideout. They narrowly escape the Lizzies' subsequent attack, learning in the process that the gangland community believes the Warriors murdered Cyrus. Acting as a lone scout, Swan decides to return to the 96th Street station, where Mercy joins him (although he spurns her promiscuity). After reaching the Union Square station, they reunite with the remaining Warriors and engage in a fight with a roller-skating gang, the Punks. Mercy proves herself formidable in combat. A member of a different gang visits the Riffs and tells them that he saw Luther shoot Cyrus.

At dawn, the Warriors finally reach Coney Island, only to find Luther and the Rogues waiting for them. Swan challenges Luther to single combat but Luther pulls a gun. Swan dodges his shot and throws a switchblade (taken from one of the Punks) into Luther's wrist, disarming him. The Riffs arrive, acknowledging the Warriors' courage and skill before apprehending the Rogues. As the Riffs descend upon him, Luther screams. The radio DJ announces that "the big alert has been called off" and salutes the Warriors with a song, "In the City." The film ends with Swan, Mercy and the rest of the gang walking down a Coney Island beach, illuminated by the rising sun.

Entry

Most remembered moment

Original trailer

#warriors #Youtube #Spotify #cult movies #cinema

[agrpress-blog]

Quarantacinque anni fa, nel febbraio del 1979, usciva al cinema "I Guerrieri della Notte", un film che ha scosso il panorama cinematografico dell'epoca e che continua ancora a far parlare di sé. Quest'opera, oggi celebrata come cult movie, continua a suscitare interesse e riflessioni profonde sulla sua capacità di insinuarsi nella memoria collettiva. Hill, tra i registi più audaci della sua generazione, trasporta gli spettatori in una New York dove mitologia antica e modernità si fondono, dipingendo le città come giungle d'asfalto. Il film, ambientato nel Bronx, segue nove delegati delle maggiori gang cittadine convocati da Cyrus, leader dei Riffs, per un'inaspettata proposta di alleanza. Tuttavia, il tradimento e l'omicidio di Cyrus scatenano una notte di sopravvivenza per i Guerrieri, guidati da Swan. Hill mescola horror, western, musical e thriller urbano, creando un'esperienza cinematografica unica che riflette la realtà delle strade newyorkesi dell'epoca. "I Guerrieri della Notte" è anche un'odissea metropolitana, con i protagonisti costretti a inventare strategie per sopravvivere, omaggiando l'antica Grecia in modi sottili ma potenti. Il film offre una prospettiva unica sulla subcultura giovanile, influenzata da musica, cinema e fumetti, rappresentando le città americane come moderne giungle mitologiche. La classicità e la modernità di "I Guerrieri della Notte" emergono dalla struttura letteraria originaria di Sol Yurick e dalle influenze della tragedia greca. La cinematografia di Hill, estranea al tempo, unisce in modo unico il passato e il presente, creando un'opera senza tempo che ha resistito al passare degli anni. 45 anni dopo la sua uscita infatti, "I Guerrieri della Notte" continua a essere un punto di riferimento nel panorama cinematografico. La sua storia originale, con dettagli e personaggi diversi, aggiunge un fascino intrigante alla sua mitologia. La violenza controversa e le interruzioni di proiezioni nel 1979 possono aver attenuato la sua popolarità momentaneamente, ma il film ha riacquistato slancio nel corso degli anni, diventando un'icona di New York e della ribellione giovanile. "I Guerrieri della Notte" persiste nel catturare l'immaginazione degli spettatori, mantenendo la sua rilevanza in un contesto urbano completamente diverso. La sua evoluzione parallela a quella di New York, ora la città più ricca del mondo, conferma che il fascino di questo capolavoro cinematografico è destinato a crescere ancora per molte generazioni a venire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJUfybSdSNo