Walter Hill’s 1979 action movie was part parable, part videogame, and part dystopian nightmare. It’s definitely an exercise in excess – a Walter Hill trademark – but it’s also a truly enlightening peek into its period, just before the dawn of the 80s. Michael Beck plays Swan, the leader of a street gang in New York, one of many called to a Central Park super-summit. When the street-gang boss of bosses is assassinated, Swan’s gang, the Warriors, is framed as the killers, and all the gangs in New York seek them out, dead or alive, as the Warriors try to get back to their own neghborhood. It’s the singular visual style of each of these other gangs, from the bat-wielding Baseball Furies to the touch-chick Lizzies, that makes The Warriors seem like such a game-like drama. Each rival gang is a new level, and the only goal is to survive. Ready, set, play…