latimesblogs.latimes.com - 12/2/2008
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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...
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 12/10/2008
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If it's true that Clint Eastwood is hanging
up his acting shoes with "Gran Torino," he couldn't
have offered us a nicer swan song. Directing himself, Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a crusty retired assembly plant worker who, recently widowed, seems ...
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Rookie screenwriter finds the right mentor: Clint ...
lowresolution.blogspot.com - 12/1/2008
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lowresolution.blogspot.com —
Previously: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part
4 Movie: Cadillac Records (Darnell Martin) High-Concept Synopsis: The
rise and fall of Chess Records back in the '50s and '60s, which included such luminaries as Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright) and Etta James ...
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2008 Fall Movie Preview, Part 5
huffingtonpost.com - 11/27/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
Clint Eastwood is an American icon, having been
a major movie star since the sixties. His films
have made millions and millions of dollars for his company and the studios that have produced them. As a director, he surprised us, first with the quirky ...
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Michael Russnow: Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino: Who Knew ...
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Sheriff Grits Teeth
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Sheriff Grits Teeth "If Gran Torino does prove to be Clint Eastwood 's acting swan song, he couldn't have picked a better way to go out," writes Pete Hammond in his latest "Notes on a Season" column . "As a grizzled, racist, foul-mouthed ex-Marine refusing to move from an old neighborhood now populated with Asians and overrun by gangs, Eastwood summons up memories from his past roles. Indeed, he's channeled his whole screen persona. "As his character stands in front of his house pointing his gun at a group of young toughs and utters lines like 'Get off of my lawn' -- John ...
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... ), and it might not be as great as Peter Hammond thinks, but the film is a winner in that it accomplishes everything that was written and everything that its template set out to achieve (it's also a lot funnier than you'd think). Now whether people jive with that script/template is another story, it's probably going to be polarizing without having pre-informed yourself with the screenplay, but we felt like it really helped us understand the character a lot better than the one-dimension served in the trailer (as all trailers are wont to do). ...
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Gran Torino Opens Nationwide In The UK On February 25th
sizzlingpopcorn.com 2/17/2009 —
Gran Torino , Clint Eastwood’s Highest-Grossing Film in the U.S. to Date, Opens Nationwide on 25th February
LONDON, February 16/PRNewswire/ — Gran Torino , which has attained the highest gross at the U.S. box office of any film in legendary actor/director Clint ...
Poster: Gran Torino
livingincinema.com 10/23/2008 — McPaper has the first look at the poster for Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. Click the image to see the whole thing largified. It reminds me of something from the ’70s…like Walking Tall.
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