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Clint Eastwood Sings The 'Gran Torino' Theme Song, No Really
theplaylist.blogspot.com - 12/8/2008
Clint Eastwood Sings The 'Gran Torino' Theme Song, No Really
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No, really. Clint Eastwood sings on the titular " Gran Torino " song. Warner Bros . has put up a For Your Consideration site that includes most of the music and score of the film (Eastwood is an accomplished musician and has been scoring his own films for years now). So yeah, it's Eastwood's ...
rottentomatoes.com - 12/12/2008
Gran Torino Movie Reviews, Pictures
— rottentomatoes.com — December 15, 2008: AFI Names 2008's Finest Films Opens in new window The results are in, and the AFI has spoken: "The Dark Knight," "Iron Man," "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "Frost/Nixon," "Frozen River," "Gran Torino," "Milk," "WALL-E,"... ... (more) Gran Torino Movie Reviews, Pictures

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Movie Review - Gran Torino - Hope for a Racist, and Maybe a Country
— movies.nytimes.com — Twice in the last decade, just as the holiday movie season has begun to sag under the weight of its own bloat, full of noise and nonsense signifying nothing, Clint Eastwood has slipped another film into theaters and shown everyone how it’s done. This ... (more) Movie Review - Gran Torino - Hope for a Racist, and ...

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Eastwood rides into race in 'Gran Torino'
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 12/2/2008
Eastwood rides into race in 'Gran Torino'
— latimesblogs.latimes.com — As the final contenders are finally screened this week, one decorated veteran of the Oscar wars just planted another flag in the race. Clint Eastwood may have had trouble finding the Clarity Screening Room on Monday night, but landing a... (more) Eastwood rides into race in 'Gran Torino'

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Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: Emo Boy, The Fountain Recut, Bret Easton Ellis
Film Junk — ... Pact Film Random Guy Gets Flickr Photo Used in Iron Man Mark Ruffalo’s Bro Shot in the Head Romancing The Stone Remake Jay Baruchel is The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Bottle Rocket Short Film Gets a Soundtrack Release The Stories Behind Various Movie Studio Logos Lexi Alexander for Jonah Hex? Mark Romanek to Direct Never Let Me Go Rob Zombie to Return for Halloween 2? Hear Clint Eastwood Sing the Gran Torino Theme The Transporter Was Gay? ...

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hollywood-elsewhere.com 12/12/2008 — The N.Y. Times' Manohla Dargis and Wall Street Journal's "JoMo" Morgenstern are the latest elite-print-critics-who-still-have-a-job to join the Gran Torino horn tootin', hats-in-the-air cavalcade. "Twice in the last decade, just as the holiday movie ...
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We hear The Growl in the very first scene of Gran Torino . It’s a thin, dry rumble, like the sound of the stone pillars rising and retracting into the cavern floor in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark , an ancient noise echoing with murderous contempt for the modern world that’s ...
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Weekend Box-Office For December 12; 'Doubt,' 'The Reader' 'Gran Torino,' 'Wendy & Lucy,' 'Che' More... — :: The Playlist ::
For once, this is actually a very crowded, movie-going weekend with tons of Oscar-bait going head to head. Of course garbage like " The Day The Earth Stood Still " with Keenooo Reeves is probably going to rule the roost, but well, box-office was never an indication of smarts now was it? It has ...
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Why do we always feel like we have to play cop / mediator to all these critics who feelings resemble 13-year-olds. Reactions are very mixed on" Gran Torino " and ageism is definitely coming into play. It's almost gotten a little ugly too. The younger crowd is essentially saying anyone in the ...
Review: Gran Torino — Cinematical
Walt Kowalski ( Clint Eastwood ) is a son of a bitch, and a particularly racist one at that. Having just endured his wife's funeral, Walt wants only to scowl and growl in solitude, left alone to simmer and seethe over past Korean War traumas and at the proliferation of Asian "swamp rats" and ...
Shooting Gallery — Carpetbagger
The Bagger has not yet seen "Gran Torino" – the trailer sort of freaked him out – but having now been handed a flashlight by Manohla Dargis, he will jump in.
Gran Torino Launches with High Praise from Top Critics — Awards Daily
While it seemed like Gran Torino was set to receive mixed reviews , many of the major papers have fallen in love with it and with Clint all over again. The NY Times’ Manohla Dargis writes : That probably sounds heavier than I mean, but “Gran Torino” doesn’t go down lightly. ...
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Hola all. Massawyrm here. There are a few definitive men in cinematic history that we point to and use as the prime examples of what we think a MAN is. If I were to ask all of you to take a moment to step away from your computer, jot down the names of the five manliest actors to ever grace the ...
Eastwood Scores With Gran Torino — Thompson On Hollywood
The last time I cried on the way home from a movie was Million Dollar Baby. As I drove, I thought about the movie's battered girl in the hospital bed, surrounded by heartless relatives, and the coach who who loved her like a father. Down came the tears. Clint Eastwood knows what he's ...
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Clip and interview with Clint Eastwood about his new movie Gran Torino
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Yahoo Movies has released a new two minute clip from Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino . Eastwood directs and stars as disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski, who sets out to reform his neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski’s prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. ...
Torino Tide Turning — Hollywood Elsewhere
The friends of Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino now include the L.A. Weekly/Village Voice's Scott Foundas, critic David Ehrenstein ("I see it as Clint's Umberto D...it's a lovely, deeply felt movie"), the N.Y. Observer 's Andrew Sarris , Variety's Todd McCarthy,...
Mr. Beaks Puts Clint's GRAN TORINO Up On Blocks... — Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
GRAN TORINO's crucial scene arrives somewhere in the second act, when Clint Eastwood's defiantly prejudiced Walt Kowalski brings his unlikely Hmong protege, Thao (Bee Vang), down to neighborhood barbershop for a lesson in the good-natured hurling of racial epithets. We've already seen Walt throw ...
Friends of Torino #3 — Hollywood Elsewhere
On 12.3 Some Came Running's Glenn Kenny asked, "Does it give too much away to say that Gran Torino, which Clint Eastwood stars in and directed, represents, for this critic at least, the final film in a trilogy that began...
Rookie screenwriter on Gran Torino: Hope for us all — Notes from Underdog.
Nice story on Patrick Goldstein's Big Picture blog (LA Times) about Nick Schenk, screenwriter behind Clint Eastwood's new film, Gran Torino. Haven't seen the film, merely finding this story inspirational for any scriptwriter trying to find some glimmer of hope to keep them going. The script ...
The Oscar Watch: L.A Film Critics Give 'Wall-E' Best Picture — :: The Playlist ::
The year is almost done and let's face it, the late-game Oscar season isn't going to change the race much. " Gran Torino " and " Defiance " have screened for press (and us) and while decent, the Best Picture category frame won't change. Though it's noted some people are in the tank for Clint ...
Friends of Torino #1 — Hollywood Elsewhere
"Clint Eastwood is America's great humanist director at present, making eloquent calls for compassion in films like Million Dollar Baby, Letters From Iwo Jima and this year's Changeling, but never at the expense of spinning a good yarn. "Gran Torino...
Review: Gran Torino — Film School Rejects
If one thing is apparent, at least to those who’ve been following Clint Eastwood’s career in recent years, it is that he’s taken a different approach lately as a director. Instead of taking big well-rounded splatter shots at Oscars, as was the case with Million Dollar Baby ...