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Watch the Trailer for Invictus: Is This the Next Best Picture?

It’s a movie about the transformation of the racial culture of South Africa. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon. Anybody else feel like they know where this is headed?...  read more

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Clint Eastwood gets honorary Palme D'Or from Cannes

Clint Eastwood received an honorary Palme D’Or last week from the heads of the Cannes Film Festival for his achievement as a filmmaker, though his unexpected smash Gran Torino suggests that work is hardly over....  read more

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Gran Torino

Since 2003 Director Clint Eastwood has had a late-career renaissance comparable...  read more

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Clint Eastwood in talks to direct supernatural thriller

Although some have pegged his latest, Changeling, as more or less a horror movie, Clint Eastwood is in talks to direct Hereafter, a new supernatural thriller to be produced by Steven Spielberg....  read more

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Changeling

It shouldn’t be a spoiler, but it is: Changeling is based on a true story...  read more

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Clint Eastwood spills details about Gran Torino

We already knew a few of the character details, but now, at long last, a few more tidbits about Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino have been revealed, courtesy of USA Today (via /Film)....  read more

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New York Film Festival announces line-up

While it's exciting to hear what films are premiering at Cannes and Venice, for most of us, these festivals are wildly out of reach. Even the North American festivals at Toronto and Sundance can be a pain to get to and are only really an option for hardcore cineastes. This makes the New York Film Festival the only event that most of us can actually take a look at, and its line-up one of the more important ones, at least to those of us living in the Northeast....  read more

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Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman to star in Human Factor

Matt Damon has signed on to star alongside Morgan Freeman in Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film The Human Factor, Variety reports....  read more

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Eastwood's Gran Torino character descriptions released

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In 1971, Clint Eastwood starred in Dirty Harry, a film that sported the tagline, "You don't assign him to murder cases, you just turn him loose." Since then, Eastwood brought Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan to life four more times, turned loose in '73's Magnum Force, in '76's The Enforcer, in '83's Sudden Impact and in '88's The Dead Pool, satiating our renegade-cop hunger time and time again. But before we get carried away with gratitude, let us not forget the other contributions Eastwood's made to the moviegoing public during the last few decades, stretching his wings as a director of...  read more

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Berklee awards Clint Eastwood honorary doctorate

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Generally, when contemplating Clint Eastwood’s contribution to music, one instinctively fears for the actor’s life. Eastwood’s role as a radio DJ in the timelessly creepy 1971 film Play Misty For Me is – like his character’s knife-welding stalker – hard to shake. All right, so most people recognize fiction and anticipate Eastwood to live out that part about as much as they expect him to own an Orangutan. But the man has apparently helped the popularization of jazz enough to deserve an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music. On September 22, Berklee President Roger Brown and alumna Diana Krall...  read more

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