Clint: A Retrospective - Hardcover

Schickel, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402774729 ISBN 13: 9781402774720

Publisher: Sterling, 2010

Synopsis

A richly illustrated retrospective celebrating the life and films of Clint Eastwood - written by renowned film critic, and acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Richard Schickel and with an introduction by the legend himself. Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood - and American - icon: beloved by critics and audiences alike, he has carved out a uniquely successful career that s spanned more than half a century and sixty movies. Acclaimed as both actor and director, as well as for his musical compositions, he s won multiple Oscars for his achievements in front of and behind the camera and has established himself as a true cinematic great. This stunning volume presents a chronological look at his astonishing body of work, from the early spaghetti westerns to his iconic role as Dirty Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971), to the soulful Bird (1988) and the revolutionary western Unforgiven (1992) through to more recent films such as the Academy Award-winning Mystic River (2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), and his latest picture, the rousing drama Invictus, starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman, which was released in December 2009. Over 300 spectacular images, including dynamic stills from memorable screen performances and revealing behind-the-scenes photographs, are accompanied by Richard Schickel s incisive and illuminating commentary.

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HardCover Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 288 Publisher: the Sterling A richly illustrated retrospective celeating the Life and films of Clint Eastwood - written by of Renowned film critic. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Richard Schickel and with An Introduction by the legend himself. Clint Eastwood is a Hollywood - and American - icon: beloved by critics and audiences alike. he has carved out a uniquely successful career that s spanned more than half a century and sixty movies. Acclaimed as both actor and director. as well as for his musical compositions. he s won multiple Oscars for his achievements in front of and behind the camera and has established himself as a true cinematic great. This stunning volume presents a chronological look at his astonishing body of work. from the early spaghetti westerns to his iconic role as Dirty Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971). to the soulful...

About the Author

Richard Schickel is the author of more than thirty books. He is the creator of an equal number of documentary films, including portraits of Charlie Chaplin, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen. Over the past three decades he has made eighteen such directorial portraits, which, taken together, constitute a unique record of the history of filmmaking since the beginning of sound film production. Since 1965, he has been a movie reviewer for Life, Time and Time.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1402774729
• ISBN 13: 9781402774720
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288