Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
#15 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. This is a real change of direction for Eastwood. The Bridges of Madison County following the elegiac A Perfect World felt like a natural progression, but moving from The Bridges of Madison County to a violent, Hitchcockian thriller about corruption at the highest levels of governmental power… Continue reading Absolute Power
#7 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Based on the popular novel by Robert James Waller and with a script by Richard LaGravenese (supposedly shepherded along by Steven Spielberg when he was considering directing the project), Clint Eastwood's The Bridges of Madison County is a departure from the kinds of movies he'd been making… Continue reading The Bridges of Madison County
#10 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Clint Eastwood could have retired after Unforgiven, and I don't think anyone would have blamed him. It was a pinnacle of his career that he was unlikely to ever match. However, Eastwood is a workhorse, and he put out another film the next year from a script… Continue reading A Perfect World
#1 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. When it comes to Clint Eastwood's directing work, it's important to separate the films he made for financial reasons (The Rookie, Firefox) from the ones that were more personal to him (Bronco Billy, Honkytonk Man, White Hunter Black Heart). This feels like the latter, a script he… Continue reading Unforgiven
#30 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Obviously an attempt by Warner Brothers to replicate the success of 48 Hrs. from eight years earlier and the Lethal Weapon movies, The Rookie was the price Clint Eastwood had to pay to get the funding for White Hunter Black Heart. And you know what? I think… Continue reading The Rookie
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