Tag Archives: Clint Eastwood

Five Film Favorites: Gun Fights

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

I have not yet worked out the ethical dilemma of how I can find certain forms of violence so mesmerizing and, yes, entertaining in cinema while knowing that those same forms of violence, when they occur in real life, have such devastating … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lists, Uncategorized | Tagged Aurelian Recoing, Clint Eastwood, Demain des l'aube, Denis Dercourt, Eli Wallach, Ennio Morricone, Gene Hackman, gun fights, High Noon, James Drury, Jeremie Renier, Jimmy Stewart, Joel McCrea, John Anderson, John Ford, John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Randolph Scott, Richard Harris, Ride the High Country, Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Unforgiven, Vincent Perez, Warren Oates | Leave a comment

Dear Mr. Eastwood

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Peter Schilling

“If it were all in the script, why make the film?” –Nicholas Ray Dear Mr. Eastwood, I’m writing this open letter that you undoubtedly won’t read, because I have a question: why did you make J. Edgar? Seriously. I don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Reviews | Tagged Clint Eastwood, J. Edgar | 1 Comment

Dirty Harry 40th Anniversary Recommendation: Dirty Harry

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

2011 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the film and role that made Clint Eastwood into an unmatched Hollywood icon. Sure, Eastwood had been a successful film actor, mostly in Westerns (Italian and American) for nearly a decade. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Blood Work, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Don Siegel, Million Dollar Baby | 2 Comments

Five Film Favorites: Male Face Objects

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

A few months back, during the highly successful James River Film Festival, I wrote a small piece about Robert Mitchum. Without cutting and pasting what I wrote in that post, I will here briefly summarize that I felt that Robert Mitchum met many of … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Film | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Brokeback Mountan, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Fistful of Dollars, Gran Torino, Greta Garbo, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Heath Ledger, High and Low, In the Heat of the Night, Lillies of the Field, Robert Mitchum, Roland Barthes, Sergio Leone, Sidney Poitier, The Dark Knight, The Defiant Ones, The Face of Garbo, The Hidden Fortress, The Patriot, Toshiro Mifune | 2 Comments

Family Viewing Recommendation: Rango

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

I have previously posted about the difficulty of finding quality films made with children as the target audience. However, I am a sucker for taking my children to the movies, so I inevitably sit through clunkers such as Gnomeo and Juliet … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged A Fistful of Dollars, Angelina Jolie, Bill Nighy, Byrd Theatre, CartoonNetwork, Chinatown, Clint Eastwood, Dead Man, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Gnomeo and Juliet, Gore Verbinski, Jackie Chan, Jim Jarmusch, Johnny Depp, Ned Beatty, Nickelodeon, Pirates of the Caribbean, Rango, Rio, Rodrick Rules, Russell Crowe, Sergio Leone, SpongeBob SquarePants, There Will Be Blood, Tom Kenney, Toy Story 3, Vigo Mortenson | 1 Comment

Five Film Favorites: Best Picture Winners

Posted on January 13, 2011 by F.T. Rea

It’s cold outside and, yes, we’re in the midst of the awards season. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for Best Picture later this month. The Academy started handing out the awards first for … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lists | Tagged Academy Awards, Brenda Vaccaro, Casablanca, Claude Rains, Clint Eastwood, Danny DeVito, Dustin Hoffman, Elia Kazan, Eva Marie Saint, Five Film Favorites, Gene Hackman, Humphrey Bogart, hurt locker, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Nicholson, John Schlesinger, Jon Voight, Lee J. Cobb, Louise Fletcher, Marlon Brando, Michael Curtiz, Midnight Cowboy, Milos Forman, Morgan Freeman, On the Waterfront, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Unforgiven | 1 Comment

Eastwood’s Exceptional Men

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

The release of Hereafter marked the thirty-fourth time a Clint Eastwood directed film hit the big screen. It seems nearly impossible that at eighty years old Eastwood is somehow becoming more prolific in churning out films. Since 2000, Eastwood has … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Film | Tagged Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, exceptionalism, Gran Torino, Herafter, Invictus, Italian Westerns, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Walt Kowalski | Leave a comment

Violent Style without Ethical Substance: “Inglourious Basterds” and the Italian Western

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Todd Hunter Starkweather

In F.T. Rea’s post of favorite Westerns, Rea cleverly and accurately assigned each film with a word: High Noon is about honor. Lonely Are the Brave is about freedom. Stagecoach is about survival. Treasure of the Sierra Madre is about … Continue reading →

Posted in Essays, Film, Reviews | Tagged Aldo Raine, Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Clint Eastwood, Col. Hans Landa, Eli Wallach, Ennio Morricone, Five Film Favorites, Good the Bad and the Ugly, Heath Ledger, High Noon, Inglorious Basterds, Italian Westerns, John Ford, Joker, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Lee Van Cleef, Lonely Are the Brave, Quentin Tarantino, Revenge of a Gunfighter, Searchers, Sergio Leone, Stagecoach, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Unforgiven | 8 Comments

Five Film Favorites: Westerns

Posted on September 9, 2010 by F.T. Rea

While we’ve all seen lots of bad Western movies with tired clichés about trail drives, crooked sheriffs and handgun duels wrapped around predictable plots, a good Western, with well drawn characters moving about in a lean story, is hard to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Lists | Tagged Andy Devine, Claire Trevor, Clint Eastwood, David Miller, Five Film Favorites, Fred Zinnemann, Gary Cooper, Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, Grace Kelly, Humphrey Bogart, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Lloyd Bridges, Lonely Are the Brave, Morgan Freeman, Roy Rogers, Tim Holt, Trigger, Walter Huston, Walter Matthau | 4 Comments

Tag Archives: Clint Eastwood

Five Film Favorites: Gun Fights

Dear Mr. Eastwood

Dirty Harry 40th Anniversary Recommendation: Dirty Harry

Five Film Favorites: Male Face Objects

Family Viewing Recommendation: Rango

Five Film Favorites: Best Picture Winners

Eastwood’s Exceptional Men

Violent Style without Ethical Substance: “Inglourious Basterds” and the Italian Western

Five Film Favorites: Westerns

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