Clint Eastwood will be celebrated with the Hollywood Film Festival’s director of the year award at the festivals awards gala Oct. 27 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Eastwood’s Angelina Jolie-starrer, Changeling is due out Oct. 24, and Grand Torino, in which Eastwood plays a veteran forced to confront his prejudices, is scheduled for release by Warner Bros. in Dec.
The week-long festival begins Oct. 22. at the ArcLight Theatres in Hollywood.
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Changeling poster, a visual that communicates, tells us that this lady went through some STUFF, like taking on the corrupted LAPD, to find her son. Angelina Jolie is a beauty and Clint Eastwood is one lucky director to have Jolie star in this movie.
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Great trailer and an even better movie by Clint Eastwood starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich. A true story with incredible acting by Jolie, she is beautiful, but I could hardly recognize her as the mother — just fantastic. Movie opens October 24th.
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Just when you thought the tension had eased after the war of words between George Clooney and Charlton Heston, or Uwe Boll and everyone, the stage has been set for the battle between legendary actor/director Clint Eastwood, and legendary director Spike Lee.
It all started in Cannes this year, in which Spike Lee (who directed classics such as Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X) was promoting the forthcoming WWII movie Miracle at St. Anna, concerning four African-American soldiers trapped behind enemy lines in Italy. On the subject, Lee criticised Eastwood’s two war film Letters from Iwo Jima, and Flags of Our Fathers, for not representing any of the African-American soldiers who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima. “It was a conscious decision [by Eastwood] not to have any black people”.
Eastwood responded in an interview with UK newspaper The Guardian, and he was not a happy camper. Eastwood said that Flags of Our Fathers was about the men who raised the flag for that iconic picture and that ” [the African-American contingent] didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go, ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.” Eastwood’s last words on the subject were “A guy like him should shut his face”.
Them’s fighting words, and Lee promptly responded to ABC News: “the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation [.....] come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there”. Lee denied that he suggested that the true story of Flags of our Fathers should be rewritten to feature an African-American character, and “It’s just that there’s not one black in either film. And because I know my history, that’s why I made that observation.”
Personally, I think the situation has been blown out of porportion. Lee has a certain point in that there are no black actors to be seen in Flags (Letters from Iwo Jima is told from the Japanese side), but would their inclusion as essentially extras in the background have made much of a difference? Lee was really making a statement on Hollywood’s depictions of WWII as inaccurate, but to be honest, what does he expect? You can’t get much further from the truth than Hollywood films. Which is why it will be very interesting to see how Miracle at St. Anna fares when it is released in September.
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Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie discuss their film, "The Changeling" at the Cannes Film Festival Press Conference. The press conference is in three parts. I highly recommend you see all three parts.
The talent behind this movie is unbelievable, such brilliance and forethought applied to a horrifically true story in the 1928 Los Angeles' police department.
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I just watched “Grace is Gone” last night because it was sent to me from the promotional affiliate to view and offer as a giveaway.Â
The movie is powerful and real as I watched John Cusack transform from a quiet, disconnected man to a warm caring, loving father. The movie soundtrack is by Clint Eastwood with his simple jazz piano brings the emotions of the film to full force.
“Grace” is a Sundance Audience winner and a winner of Best Screenplay.
Although the film doesn’t promote a stance on the Iraq war, you definitely feel the undertones.Â
So, I have an extra DVD of the movie for a giveaway. For this Memorial Day Weekend in the USA, I am offering it if you post your name I will pick the winner on Tuesday, May 27th. Good luck.
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Steven Soderbergh’s two films Che bio and Clint Eastwood’s”The Changeling” look like crowd and judges favorites at 61st Cannes Film Festival, meaning the U.S. has a contention for the Palme d’Or.
Soderbergh’s involvement appears to be a last-minute decision.
According to Variety, for much of this week, there seemed genuine uncertainty as to whether he
As made know earlier this year, Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” world premiers at the Croisette, hopefully Sunday May 18. It suppose to be this fest’s must-attend, highest-glam event.
Variety, also, reports, out-of-competition, DreamWorks Animation’s “Kung Fu Panda,” an adventure, comedic chop-soc tooner, promises another Hollywood red-carpet cavalcade.
Also non-competing, as is Woody Allen’s custom, is the Spain-shot “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”
Clint Eastwood’s “The Changeling,” a 1920s-set kidnap thriller, with Angelina Jolie.
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