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When Clint Eastwood's star was rising, in particular when he was working with Don Siegel on films like The Beguiled, he suddenly got it in his craw the idea that he could direct feature films, so, in 1971 he took a small thriller script by Jo Heims and Dean Riesner, cast himself in the lead as well… Continue reading Clint Eastwood: A Retrospective
I'd happily be wrong if Clint Eastwood managed to find the money for one more film after Cry Macho, but I don't think it's going to happen. His last two films were box office disappointments, he's been on the wrong side of the political monoculture of Hollywood for too long, and the man is well… Continue reading Clint Eastwood: The Definitive Ranking
#34 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Not nearly the disaster that some critics made it out to be but also not that good either, Cry Macho was a script that author N. Richard Nash had been trying to get made since the early 1970s. It only took 20 years after Nash's death for… Continue reading Cry Macho
#6 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. There's been something interesting evolving through Clint Eastwood's later career in terms of his view of authority. Going all the way back to Dirty Harry, he was looking at a series of institutions that were inept and maybe corrupt, but never malicious. Even Little Bill in Unforgiven… Continue reading Richard Jewell
#13 in my ranking of Clint Eastwood's films. Clint Eastwood was done telling stories about real heroes for a bit, and he turned his attention to a role he could pick up himself. His first self-directed acting role since Gran Torino a decade before, this feels like Eastwood finding a story that tickled him and… Continue reading The Mule
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