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Clint Eastwood |
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Director / Actor /
Producer / Composer |
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| Born May 31, San Francisco,
California, USA |
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Key
Production Countries: USA, Australia |
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Key Genres:
Drama, Thriller, Western, War Drama, Crime,
Revisionist Western,
Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film, Crime Drama,
Psychological Thriller |
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Key
Collaborators: Joel
Cox (Editor), Henry Bumstead (Production Designer), Lennie Niehaus
(Composer), Jack N. Green (Cinematographer), Tom Stern
(Cinematographer), Bruce Surtees
(Cinematographer), Ferris Webster (Editor), Robert Daley (Producer), Edward Carfagno (Production
Designer), Robert Lorenz (Producer) |
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Highly Recommended: The
Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)*, Unforgiven (1992)* |
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Recommended: Play
Misty for Me (1971), High Plains Drifter (1973), Breezy
(1973), Honkytonk Man (1982), Bird (1988), The Bridges of Madison County
(1995)*, Absolute Power (1996), Million Dollar Baby (2004)*^, Letters from
Iwo Jima (2006)^, Gran Torino (2008) |
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Worth a Look:
Bronco Billy (1980), Pale Rider (1985), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), White
Hunter, Black Heart (1990), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
(1997), Blood Work (2002), Mystic River (2003)^, Flags of Our Fathers
(2006)^, Changeling (2008), Invictus (2009) |
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Approach with Caution:
The Eiger Sanction (1975), Sudden Impact (1983), A Perfect World (1993),
True Crime (1999), Space Cowboys (2000) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
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Links: [
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ]
[
Senses
of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Clint Eastwood.Net ] [
Images Journal Article ] [
American
Masters ] [
DGA
Article ] [
Tiscali Biography ] [
Henry
Sheehan Interview ]
[
Filmbug Biography ] [
Guardian Interview (2007)] |
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Books:
[
Clint Eastwood: A Life in Pictures ] [
Clint Eastwood Actor and Director: New Perspectives ] [
Clint Eastwood: Evolution of a Filmmaker ] [
Clint Eastwood and Issues of American Masculinity ] [
Clint
Eastwood: A Biography ] [
Persistence
of Double Vision : Essays on Clint Eastwood ] [
Clint
Eastwood: Interviews ] [
Clint Eastwood: Billion Dollar Man ] [
Clint: The Life and Legend ] [
Clint Eastwood: Taschen Movie Icons ] [
Persistence of Double Vision: Essays on Clint Eastwood ] [
Clint Eastwood ] |
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"The
variety Eastwood's audacity brings to his work is perhaps the
most attractive aspect of his art: defined by an assured sense
of pace, the uncluttered, stylish camerawork of regular
collaborator Bruce Surtees, and his own effectively understated
performances, Eastwood's best films remain fine examples of
well-crafted, intelligent popular entertainment."
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Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"He has used the
control over his films to fashion one of the longest and most
fascinating examinations of masculinity in American cinema,
especially with respect to themes of individuality, violence,
and more recently, ageing. Furthermore, this masculinity has
been inseparable from the national culture in which it is
conceived, with Eastwood's films consistently exploring his
country's myths and legends through such emblematically American
genres as the western, the road movie and the action film." -
Andrew
Syder (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002)
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"Eastwood
the director is infinitely more interesting than Eastwood the
superstar, but his films are less predictable. Quite how the man
who made Play Misty for Me and The Outlaw Josey Wales
could also make The Eiger Sanction and The Gauntlet
is a little baffling. But one gets the impression, to echo T.S.
Eliot, that 'he will do as he do do, and there's no doing
anything about it!'" -
David
Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999) |
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"Has displayed a talent for cinematography and editing, as well
as the ability to direct actors." -
William R. Meyer (The Film Buff's Catalog, 1978) |
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"There's
a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot
of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can."
- Clint Eastwood |
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