to celebrate the release of clint eastwood's newest film, changeling, next week, i have decided that an eastwood retrospective is in order. someone claimed recently that eastwood is america's finest living filmmaker, a moniker usually reserved for martin scorsese, or at a push steven spielberg. as a big fan of eastwood (albeit not as big as i am a fan of scorsese) i can definately see where the person in question is coming from, though im not sure i agree. the breadth of eastwood's work is ridiculously epic, he covers pretty much every genre, and in the last few years especially, he has covered these genre's in an enviable manner. to date my favourite eastwood film is probably mystic river. sean penn's performance is without par, and the film is just beautifully crafted. if you take into account the fact that eastwood directed and starred in million dollar baby less than twelve months later an idea of the mans consistency will be easily garnered. again, this can be seen in his war film double bill of two years back (flags of our fathers & letters from iwa jima) and in this years changeling and gran torino.
throughout the course of this season i shall be taking a look at the following -
the gauntlet (1977)
unforgiven (1992)
the outlaw josey wales (1996)
play misty for me (1971)
million dollar baby (2004)
the ENTIRE dirty harry series (1971-1988)
and maybe a couple more (im really tempted to give mystic river a run in the ol' dvd player, it all depends on time). the whole thing will culminate in seeing changeling at the cinema on the 28th.
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