Take a tour through a century of daredevil filmmaking with legendary stuntman, stunt coordinator, stunt designer, and second-unit director Buddy Joe Hooker. In the following program, Hooker recounts the early pioneers of Hollywood stunt work in silent comedy and westerns, the later innovations of car-chase movies and Hong Kong action cinema, and his own career pulling “cannon rolls” for Quentin Tarantino and helping William Friedkin execute legendary chase sequences.
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Death Proof
Directed by Quentin Tarantino • 2007 • United States
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Ben-Hur
Directed by William Wyler • 1959 • United States
Starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Hugh GriffithWinner of a record eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, this gargantuan sword-and-sandals spectacle stands as one of the greatest Hollywood epics ever f...
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To Live and Die in L.A.
Directed by William Friedkin • 1985 • United States
Starring William Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John PankowWilliam Friedkin’s kinetic neonoir takes the ’80s action thriller to new heights of hyperstylized excess. Federal agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) has a score to settle as he vows to t...
