Clint Eastwood

The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work - Unofficial and Unauthorised

by Ian Nathan

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Pub Date Sep 12 2023 | Archive Date Jul 13 2023

Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion | White Lion Publishing

Arts & Photography | Biographies & Memoirs | Entertainment

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Clint Eastwood is Hollywood’s elder statesman and its conscience. He is the standard by which other films and filmmakers are judged. He represents both classical Hollywood and an entirely modern, uncompromising and unfussy directorial presence.

There are those who adore him as a cowboy, a superstar, the rugged, unyielding yet introspective face of American machismo. There are those who read him as a great American auteur fashioning uncompromising, fascinating, intellectual films about his country, about life, about whatever the hell takes his fancy.

No single figure in all of Hollywood, operates so freely outside of the strictures of commercial pressure. And yet, or perhaps that is because, he makes hit after hit.

Separation of actor and director is almost impossible. They are intimately related, cross pollinating, but he has become in the latter half of his career to be view as one of the great American artists. While drawing connections from his wider work as an actor, and those who have influenced him, it is his identity as a director that this book will celebrate.

This is not a career — it is a landscape.

Clint Eastwood is Hollywood’s elder statesman and its conscience. He is the standard by which other films and filmmakers are judged. He represents both classical Hollywood and an entirely modern...

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EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9780711283657
PRICE	$36.00 (USD)
PAGES	176

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Richard L, Reviewer

This isn’t a biography of Clint Eastwood. Rather, it is his filmography of his career in movies as actor and director; often doing both roles on the same film.

Littered with stills from his motion pictures it is a book to delight any fan of Clint Eastwood or aficionado of Hollywood and the studio system.

It doesn’t perhaps tell how films are made so much as how Eastwood makes his films. Often screenplays sit on desks, unmade but once they come into Clint’s orbit he sees a way and gets thing done.

For someone who has followed this actor’s career; from Spaghetti Westerns to the slopes of the Eiger. From Dirty Harry to Heartbreak Ridge I loved this journey through this wonderful book. I often saw these movies in cinemas and looked forward to each new release.

I love Where Eagles Dare and Kelly’s Heroes and rank Eastwood as one of my favourite actors and reason enough to sit down and watch a movie if he is in it or directed it.

This was brought home to me in The Outlaw Josey Wales and Unforgiven where my opinion is reflects in the praise of full-time critics.

What this book demonstrates however is it is a career that never ends and brought to my attention film titles I didn’t even know he was associated with.

A tour de force and a perfect gift for a film buff.

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Alayne E, Reviewer

Being a big Clint fan I was excited to read this book. I found out alot about this icon and although I watch all his films and ones he's directed. A huge talent and at 93 still going strong. My thanks to netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book in return for an honest review.