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| Clint Eastwood (b.1930) |
Clint Eastwood is a towering iconic figure in the Western genre, a position achieved via his films with Sergio Leone and his avowed mentor, Donald Siegel. But Eastwood is considerably more than that because as age began to carve his features to resemble something you'd expect to see on Mount Rushmore the man with no name switched to directing. I'm a fan but certainly not an uncritical one and I dislike probably as many of his films as I like and this is reflected in the list below because I have not set out to collect the films I dislike (no comedy apes!) or the ones I was happy just to watch and forget (this would normally include all the DIRTY HARRY films after the first but the box-set came as a present). As a director he has gone from strength to strength and he has certainly proven that he knows how to exploit his own image. Clint Eastwood films in my collection are: REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955) TARANTULA (1955)
A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966)
COOGAN'S BLUFF (1968)
PLAY MISTY FOR ME (1971)
DIRTY HARRY (1971)
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973) MAGNUM FORCE (1973)
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976) THE ENFORCER (1976) SUDDEN IMPACT (1983)
PALE RIDER (1985) DEAD POOL (1988)
BIRD (1988)
UNFORGIVEN (1992) THE BLUES:PIANO BLUES (1992)
MYSTIC RIVER (1992)
MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004)
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006) FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS (2006)
GRAN TORINO (2008)
THE CHANGELING (2008)
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| Clint Eastwood as THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976) |
1 comment:
Like you I'm not a particularly mega-Eastwood fan but there are some i like. . .
Eastwood films in my OWN DVD collection: REVENGE OF THE CREATURE, TARANTULA and UNFORGIVEN.
I have seen many more of his films [FRANCIS IN THE NAVY, THE BEGUILED, EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE, ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, HONKYTONK MAN, PALE RIDER, IN THE LINE OF FIRE, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTRY, SPACE COWBOYS, J. EDGAR and GRAN TORINO] but have not chosen to own any of them.
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