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...peplum fad kept the Italian film industry going until it discovered its next and more lasting trend, the spaghetti Western. Directors and stars simply moved from one genre to the next. Before helming A Fistful of Dollars, which kicked his and Clint Eastwood's career into overdrive, Sergio Leone had made his directing debut with The Colossus of Rhodes...
...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...
...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 symbol...
...Clint Eastwood at a 1996 Film Society gala honoring his work...
...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 of hope...