Posted on February 26th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood
Dirty Harry got to be old. And mean. I guess we expected that. Curmudgeonly, cranky, rollie-smoking, beer-drinking – a can and by-the-neck man, nary a glass in sight – ex-Korean War vet Walt Kowalski isn’t actually cop Harry Callaghan, just a kind of alter ego ‘with-no-name’ grown old, prejudices intact: justice [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Changeling – Clint Eastwood
Cinema, film is a collaborative art. If the director has the integrating artistic conception of the film, he still has to assemble his realisation of that ‘vision’ through the many critical disciplines, each an art in its own right, that provide the warp and weft of the finished film. It is easy [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Million Dollar Baby - Clint Eastwood
Don’t be put off. This superb film is not light, trite or funny as it’s silly title suggests. Rope Burns, its working title, would have been fine. More importantly: boxing is its context, not its subject. Even if you hate boxing, you can still enjoy this movie. And it is [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Flags of Our Fathers – Clint Eastwood
(BBC Prize Review)
This film has the resonance of a brick. There is more evocative imagery of the pathos and tragedy of war in the stills shown over the final credits than in the whole 132 minutes of film that precedes them. It is hard to believe that Eastwood [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 1 star, Action, Clint Eastwood, General, Hollywood, Musical, Philosophical, War | 4 Comments »
