Clint Eastwood

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Yeah, but not every movie he directs. Just about half, I think.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:37 (two years ago) link

oh I meant after Unforgiven, sorry. I remember an interview then where he made it clear it was his future.

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link

You mean if he acts he only acts in movies he directs, you mean?

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link

He only has threesomes in movies he directs.

i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:47 (two years ago) link

by "Eastwood" Eric of course means "Scott."

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link

Whoa Clint's a big fan of Christopher Guest movies and The Hangover pic.twitter.com/224ixkQjMz

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) September 8, 2021

i carry the torch for disco inauthenticity (Eric H.), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 16:21 (two years ago) link

five months pass...

White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) was not as great as some of his earlier films like The Outlaw Josie Wales or High Plains Drifter, but it was a pretty good pre-Unforgiven film.

I kind of enjoyed the incessant gay panic humor from the super-straight military guys in Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Dan S, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:15 (two years ago) link

Pale Rider (1985) was another great one

Dan S, Sunday, 27 February 2022 01:33 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

I’ve been using my netflix dvd subscription to watch various directors’ films in order, to get a sense of the progression of their style and aesthetic


Eastwood has directed an amazing number of films! Unforgiven (1992) was a pinnacle obviously.

Dan S, Friday, 13 May 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link

For the most part, I would have been fine with him stopping there.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 13 May 2022 00:45 (one year ago) link

One of his films that was not on my radar was A Perfect World. I don’t remember reading or hearing about it when it was released in 1993

Dan S, Friday, 13 May 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link

thought it was a good film about the cinematic past, how law enforcement was irrelevant, how a boy was treated at the hands of a killer

Dan S, Friday, 13 May 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link

I haven't seen it since it was in theatres. Given how its reputation has grown in recent years, I should probably give it a fresh look; I remember liking it just fine, though I did snicker along with the rest of the sparse matinee crowd at Costner complimenting the boy's penis.

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Friday, 13 May 2022 01:52 (one year ago) link

I think I was going and seeing about 4 films a week when Perfect World came out. Most of the new ones in Dublin . Both mainstream and what was showing at the IFC.
So caught that and think I have the end scene in my head. Or definitely one major still.

Think he's been quite good as a director.

Shame about the politics. I just heard he had an immediate reaction to the speech made by Marlon Brandos guest at the Oscars. Cropped up in the Behind The Bastards on John Wayne. I guess he's likely to support the cowboys but did seem a little cynical.
& him funding searches for still captive Vietnam soldiers which I think was fruitless.

Stevolende, Friday, 13 May 2022 02:04 (one year ago) link

Feel like a lot of the talk about him as a director - "in the Hawks school", "the last classicist" - is trying to get a positive spin on him just not making many interesting choices.

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 May 2022 09:36 (one year ago) link


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