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The Wind and the Lion
Why this pick
Like Walker, it turns imperial adventure into a grand, politically charged spectacle, with operatic violence, bold rhetoric, and a deliberately mythic view of history.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1987 1h 34m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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The Battle of Algiers
Why this pick
Its fiercely anti-colonial perspective, documentary-like urgency, and attention to power as public performance echo Walker’s radical historical reimagining.
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Burn!
Why this pick
A caustic colonial allegory in which revolution and foreign intervention become inseparable, matching Walker’s confrontational politics and ironic historical bite.
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Aguirre: The Wrath of God
Why this pick
Its feverish journey through conquest and delusion shares Walker’s unstable, anti-imperial historical vision and its taste for surreal, unsettling imagery.
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The Proposition
Why this pick
This harsh revisionist western has Walker’s interest in colonial brutality and moral rot, though delivered with a more somber, stripped-down intensity.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ed Harris
William Walker
René Auberjonois
Maj. Siegfried Hennington
Keith Szarabajka
Timothy Crocker
John Diehl
Stebbins
Blanca Guerra
Rene Assa
Doctor
Joe Strummer
Faucet
Michele Winstanley
Maid