Streets Of Fire (1984 Box Office Flop)
The third episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1984 features the year’s biggest flop, Walter Hill’s Streets of Fire. Directed and co-written by Walter Hill and starring Michael Paré, Amy Madigan, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Deborah Van Valkenburgh and Willem Dafoe, Streets of Fire was a box-office failure following Hill’s success with 48 Hrs.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/streets-of-fire-1984), Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/01/movies/screen-streets-of-fire.html), and Gary Arnold in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/06/01/dead-end-streets-of-fire/5431036e-046f-41b8-ba8e-ee12a4183643/).
Our guest in this episode is Las Vegas-based filmmaker Albert Pyun, director of more than 50 movies, including The Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg and Nemesis, as well as the unofficial Streets of Fire sequel Road to Hell, starring Michael Paré and Deborah Van Valkenburgh. You can find out more about his work, and stream Road to Hell, at https://www.albertpyun.net/
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