The engine kicks on, the chain starts to spin and a roaring buzz sound screams out across the open Texas landscape. The person holding the chainsaw defies description; a strange mix between businessman and housewife, all wrapped up in...
Ever the genre director, Eastwood’s final film of the 1990s was True Crime. The second sequential box office and critical failure for the director, the film seemed the final nail in the coffin of Eastwood’s all too brief string...
Operating solely from behind the camera for only the third time in his directorial career, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil saw Eastwood leave acting behind to focus on recreating the world of 1980s Georgia. An adaptation...
By then a director at the very top of his game, 1997 saw Eastwood reunite with Gene Hackman, whom he had directed to Oscar glory in Unforgiven. Rounding off the cast with Ed Harris, E.G. Marshall, Richard Jenkins, and...
It was in March 1995 that Eastwood was honoured with the Academy’s Irving G. Thalberg Lifetime Achievement Award, his previous two films each having been declared the best of their respective years by Cahiers du Cinema. Rapidly becoming recognized...
Following on the heels of his unprecedented success with the previous year’s Unforgiven was never to be an easy task for Eastwood. With A Perfect World, he leaned more toward the behind-camera side of filmmaking — a choice validated...
It was in his twenty-second year of film direction that Clint Eastwood finally fully realized the incredible potential he had for decades demonstrated in his work both before and behind the camera. A filmmaker famed for taking the western...
For all his talents as a director, action was the one genre which— by the time 1990 arrived— Eastwood seemed unable to work well within, each of his previous exercises with the genre— the dismal The Eiger Sanction, the...
Perhaps spurred on by the critical acclaim that met his previous endeavour Bird, Eastwood’s follow-up White Hunter Black Heart was a loosely biographical adaptation of a year in the life of the great John Huston, following the director’s infamously...
A fitting forebear to the upcoming J. Edgar, in anticipation of which this very retrospective was undertaken, Eastwood’s 1988 Bird too looks at the dark personal life of a celebrated public figure: jazz saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird” Parker. Beginning...
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