Clint Eastwood: Il mito, le donne, la frontiera
20/03/2024
Recensione della biografia “Spettri di Clint, ovvero L’America del mito nell’opera di Eastwood”, di Mariuccia Ciotta e Roberto Silvestri
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Bird (1988) – Review by Pauline Kael
15/04/2023
What I saw was a rat’s nest of a movie—all flashbacks and rain. Eastwood has been conscientious: he hasn’t commercialized the material.
Sully | Recensioni
06/10/2021
Recensioni del film Sully, diretto da Clint Eastwood. Contributi di Roberto Escobar, Pier Maria Bocchi, Peter Debruge
Mystic River | Recensioni
28/09/2021
Recensioni italiane del film Mystic River, diretto da Clint Eastwood. Contributi di Silvio Danese, Alfredo Boccioletti, Alessandra Levantesi, Roberto Nepoti, Emanuela Martini, Roberto Escobar
Cry Macho (2021) – Transcript
18/09/2021
A one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder takes a job to bring a man’s young son home and away from his alcoholic mom. On their journey, the horseman finds redemption through teaching the boy what it means to be a good man.
Mystic River (2003) – Transcript
06/05/2021
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
WRITING THE WEST: ICONIC AND LITERAL TRUTH IN “UNFORGIVEN”
23/02/2018
The popular and critical success of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven (1992) has prompted a number of discussions about the status of the Western, Eastwood’s cinematic persona, and the currency of each in a changing cultural landscape. An accepted critical reading of the film that has already emerged suggests that it revises the Western genre.
Pale Rider (1985) | Review by Pauline Kael
17/02/2018
As an actor, Eastwood never lets down his guard. His idea of being a real man is that it’s something you have to pretend to be—as Sergio Leone put it, he’s wearing a suit of armor. This actor has made a career out of his terror of expressiveness. Now here he is playing a stiff, a ghost. It’s perfect casting, but he doesn’t have the daring to let go and have fun with it. Even as a ghost, he’s armored.
ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ (1979) Review by Jack Clancy [Cinema Papers]
28/01/2018
Escape from Alcatraz opens with the camera panning across San Francisco Bay and the bridge, and then to the grim, gloomy island of Alcatraz. The first sequence, as the credits come up, shows the arrival, through rain and darkness, of a prisoner for the “Rock”: it is shot in tight, constricted close- up and mostly in shadow.
Dirty Harry: Saint Cop – Review by Pauline Kael
28/12/2017
Dirty Harry is obviously just a genre movie, but this action genre has always had a fascist potential, and it has finally surfaced. Since crime is caused by deprivation, misery, psychopathology, and social injustice, Dirty Harry is a deeply immoral movie.
SOMETHING TO DO WITH DEATH: A FISTFUL OF SERGIO LEONE – by Richard T. Jameson
30/11/2017
by Richard T. Jameson Early in 1967. United Artists undertook a massive publicity campaign to sell the country on a recent acquisition that had broken