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...Good movie"--that's rich. Zodiac must have been a film critic, for by 1978, there had been plenty of movies inspired by his exploits. Apparently, he didn't care for the two released in 1971: a no-budgeter called The Zodiac Killer, and Dirty Harry, with Clint Eastwood as a Frisco cop chasing a serial killer called Scorpio. Other films followed; the methodical (read: plodding) The Zodiac came out in 2005. But if the killer was hoping for a synoptic rethinking of his case from an A-level director, he's finally...
...Ford's great film Fort Apache, as John Wayne sucks it up and carries out the orders of his pigheaded commanding officer, Henry Fonda, even as it leads to a massacre--and can still say years later, "He made it a command to be proud of." It's what Clint Eastwood was aiming for in his account of the doomed Japanese soldiers in Letters from Iwo Jima--except that Eastwood, the earnest Westerner, couldn't get much past the earnest Eastern clichés: the suicidal fanatics, the humanistic general, the humble baker turned soldier who serves as a life-affirming...
...Clint Eastwood at a 1996 Film Society gala honoring his work...
...Ford's great film Fort Apache, as John Wayne sucks it up and carries out the orders of his pigheaded commanding officer, Henry Fonda, even as it leads to a massacre - and can still say years later, "He made it a command to be proud of." It's what Clint Eastwood was aiming for in his account of the doomed Japanese soldiers in Letters from Iwo Jima - except that Eastwood, the earnest Westerner, couldn't get much past the earnest Eastern cliches: the suicidal fanatics, the humanistic general, the humble baker turned soldier who serves as a life-affirming symbol...
...must-see. Why the German? “The Lives of Others,” a gripping drama about the Stasi and the East German citizens they spied on during the Cold War, recently opened to overwhelmingly positive reviews, and received a Best Foreign Film nod. Why the Japanese? Clint Eastwood’s “Letters from Iwo Jima” just might take Oscar’s Best Picture category. It’s an unconventional war film, one subtitled but not quite foreign—Eastwood is just about as American...