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...again in his new film, this time as a World War II Japanese officer mounting a last stand against American troops in the critically acclaimed Letters From Iwo Jima. Watanabe, 47, spoke with Time's Michiko Toyama about his role, what it was like working with director Clint Eastwood, and the challenges of being true to the horrors...
...plus soldiers who defended the island against the ferocious American assault were ordered to die rather than surrender, and most did. It's a tragic epic that director Clint Eastwood personifies by focusing mainly on two stories: the dutiful, civilized general (Ken Watanabe) and a common soldier (Kazunari Ninomiya) who is clumsily, almost comically, determined to live. The dialogue is in Japanese, but this account of war madness --intense and compassionate--carries a universal and heart-breaking message...
...proudest achievements.” The goals of the national mentorship campaign are to recognize the work of mentors and to recruit new volunteers, said Susan Moses, the co-director of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) Harvard Mentoring Project. Other personalities include Maya Angelou, Clint Eastwood, and Sting, all of whom will be making public service announcements to raise awareness about the importance of mentoring. Jones—after whom Harvard’s first-ever endowed African American music professorship is named—has worked with HSPH for many years, Moses said. He has participated...
...statement to say that violence can be a corollary of gravity and seriousness only if there is a coherent narrative motive. Otherwise, the film drifts into the horror genre where violence is composed as spectacle for shock value. “Flags of Our Fathers,” the Clint Eastwood historical drama about Marines at Iwo Jima, is possibly the most graphic war movie since “Saving Private Ryan.” But since the gore in both films finds its source in a historical event, the viewer doesn’t become skeptical or alienated when...
...voting. We New Yorkers chose a movie about events that left a hole in the city that still hasn't been filled. The Boston Society of Film Critics picked Martin Scorsese's The Departed, which was shot in Boston. And the Los Angeles Film Critics Association went for Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima, shot in California. But don't make too much of local favorites. The New York Online Film Critics chose The Queen, and the National Board of Review - no one seems to know who the members are, but they vote in New York - selected Iwo Jima...