Daniel B. Wood, writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Directed By: Clint Eastwood The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 96% #21 Critics Consensus: This complex war epic asks hard questions, resists easy answers, and boasts career-defining work from star Alec Guinness and director David Lean. Synopsis: Adaptation of the Pierre Bouelle novel ab...
The Academy Awards turn 94 in 2023, making the show a little more than a year older than Clint Eastwood (if you can believe it). Like Eastwood, the prestigious awards ceremony has seen it all by now. Over decades, the Oscar has been handed out to an X-rated movie ("Midnight Cowboy"...
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Clint Eastwood’s boxing drama has been a legacy since its Oscar win for best picture, dropping in at the last second of its awards season. And then, it turned the narrative around from what many assumed was going to be the long-awaited winning year for Martin Scorsese for “The Aviator...
Park Dong-ik is the CEO of an IT company, his beautiful wife, Park Yeong-gyo, stays at home with their two children, Park Da-hye and Park Da-Song. They are rich and, on the surface, rather spoiled and superficial. The struggling Kims reside in a semi-basement that constantly floods,...
Although it’s maybe not even one of the top 10 best films from Scorsese, it’s aged better than the winner that year: Clint Eastwood’s overwrought boxing drama “Million Dollar Baby.” —WCPhoto : Everett Collection 2006: “Brokeback Mountain” (Winner: “Crash”) Aside from “Green ...
Martin Scorsese finally directed a Best Picture winner (and nabbed a Best Director award) for The Departed, but the Academy could just as easily have given a third trophy to Clint Eastwood for the second of two 2006 films revisiting the Battle of Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers, which recou...
Iñárritu (“Babel”), Clint Eastwood (“Letters from Iwo Jima”), Paul Greengrass (“United 93”) and Stephen Frears (“The Queen”). An easy argument can be made that the film was second to “The Departed” in best picture after winning the Producers Guild of America and Screen ...
Summary: There are few actors more iconic for a genre than Clint Eastwood is for the Western. Unforgiven is his best film – both as an actor and director – and chronicles the American West like few films had done before. Haunted by his violent past, Eastwood’s anti-hero – the no...