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Clint Eastwood  

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Director / Actor / Producer / Composer
1930 - 
Born May 31, San Francisco, California, USA
Key Production Countries: USA, Australia
Key Genres: Drama, Thriller, Western, War Drama, Crime, Revisionist Western, Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film, Crime Drama, Psychological Thriller
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), Edward Carfagno (Production Designer), Robert Daley (Producer), Sondra Locke (Leading Player)
Highly Recommended: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Unforgiven (1992)
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)
Links: [ 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)]
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 ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Unforgiven (1992), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), Million Dollar Baby (2004)
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: Mystic River (2003), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
 
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)Unforgiven (1992)Play Misty for Me (1971)Million Dollar Baby (2004)
 
     
  "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." - Geoff Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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)  
     
  "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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