Tag: Clint Eastwood
Oscar Buzz – Gran Torino And Two TV Spots
Warner Brothers recently debuted two short TV spots for “Gran Torino” and here they are. You can also see some images from the movie.
Movie critics were not so thrilled by Clint Eastwood‘s “Changeling,” but numerous early reviews of “Gran Torino” put Eastwood’s second movie in 2008 into Oscar consideration.
In “Gran Torino” Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.
Great Clint Eastwood’s GRAN TORINO Trailer
The trailer for the upcoming Clint Eastwood movie “Gran Torino” is currently playing in front of Eastwood’s “Changeling” which will opens in US cinemas.
In “Gran Torino” Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices.
Eastwood’s “Gran Torino”
The last Clint Eastwood‘s appearances on-screen was four years ago as the boxing manager in “Million Dollar Baby,” which earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor.
He’s back again in “Gran Torino” in which stars as Walt Kowalski – a racist Korean War veteran.
His Gran Torino character is Walt Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran whose prized possession is a classic car that catches the eye of local gangs in his Detroit neighborhood. One of the troubled kids who covets the vehicle is from a family of Hmong immigrant neighbors, whom Kowalski has long resented. The story comes down to two objects … his 1972 Ford muscle car and his M-1 rifle. … He worked on the line in the Ford plant and retired and had this one car he bought himself. It’s sort of a symbol of his days with the Ford plant. The M-1 is sort of a symbol of his days in the military. … He’s clinging to the memory of the war. … The young kid, as part of a gang initiation, tries to steal it, and the old guy gets him at the end of the M-1, which becomes kind of a big deal … The kid has to do penance because of the pride of the Asian group. They make him do penance. He has to come over, and the old guy doesn’t want anything to do with him, doesn’t want him anywhere around. … The fastest way to rid himself of the boy, Kowalski decides, is to cooperate.
Clint Eastwood’s Changeling Official Poster
The first poster for the upcoming Clint Eastwood-directed mystery film “Changeling,” starring Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich, has been released featuring a shot of Jolie looking at a little boy, with the tagline stating: “To find her son, she did what no one else dared.”
The story follows a woman (Angelina Jolie) whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles. The police return the wrong child and the woman is thrown into an insane asylum for disagreeing with the LAPD.
“Changeling” – First Trailer
Clint Eastwood-directed mystery film “The Exchange,” previously titled “The Changeling,” had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and we’ve got finally the first trailer for the movie starring Angelina Jolie.
The story follows a woman (Angelina Jolie) whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles. The police return the wrong child and the woman is thrown into an insane asylum for disagreeing with the LAPD.
Matt Damon in Eastwood’s ”Human Factor”
Matt Damon will play rugby star Francois Pienaar, joining Morgan Freeman, in Clint Eastwood‘s new movie ”Human Factor.”
The film is based on a book by John Carlin about post-apartheid South Africa.
Francois Pienaar who created, with Nelson Mandela, an event that gave whites and blacks in South Africa a common cause to rally around as the country was trying to heal from the wounds of apartheid.
No More Dirty Harry – Confirmed
Clint Eastwood confirmed there will be no more Dirty Harry films, which presumably means his newest film, Gran Torino, will not star everyone’s favorite badass cop.
Asked whether it’s true that we’ll see more of Dirty Harry, Eastwood said definitively,
“That is not correct.” Angelina Jolie then quipped,
“I am!” and Eastwood fired back with a laugh,
“Yeah, Dirty Harriet, starring Tomb Raider.”
Hollywood and Cannes Film Festival
Clint Eastwood‘s film “The Changeling“, starring Angelina Jolie as a woman searching for her missing son in 1920s Los Angeles and “Synechdoche, New York,” screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut.joins a competition list.
Steven Soderbergh, who took the top Cannes award in 1989 for “Sex, Lies and Videotape“, won a race against time to complete his four-hour epic “Che“, on the life of the revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara in time for the festival.
Steven Soderbergh’s inclusion looks like a last-minute decision. He competes with two pic ”Che” bio – “The Argentine” and “Guerrilla”
As predicted, Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” world preems down on the Croisette, possibly on Sunday May 18. It promises this fest’s must-attend, highest-glam event.
Thierry Fremaux, the festival’s head said the presence of Steven Spielberg and the stars of “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, which will premiere outside the main competition, would ensure “a magnificent red carpet”.
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and George Lucas are expected to join Spielberg on the steps outside the Palais des Festivals, guaranteeing the kinds of flashing cameras that add essential glamour to the festival’s arthouse fare.
Angelina Jolie in ‘Changeling’
The story follows a woman (Angelina Jolie) whose son goes missing in 1920s Los Angeles. The police return the wrong child and the woman is thrown into an insane asylum for disagreeing with the LAPD.
When it seems that her real son has been murdered by a child serial killer and the child returned admits to fraud, she takes her case to the city council and takes down the mayor, the police chief and several corrupt officers, concurrently sparking changes in the insanity legislation.
