Tag: Dirty Harry
-
For a Brief Moment, Clint Eastwood Could Have Been Batman
Clint Eastwood has played more iconic characters than nearly any other actor in film history. While his role as the enigmatic “Man With No Name” in Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is perhaps his most iconic, Eastwood also directed himself in…
-
Why Does Clint Eastwood Seem To Only Direct True Stories Now?
In the vast history of Hollywood and the filmmaking medium as a whole, there is no career quite as illustrious and seismic as Clint Eastwood’s. The actor-director has been a mainstay in cinema for roughly seven decades. Before the SAG-AFTRA strike, he was in production for what is believed to be his final film, Juror…
-
Clint Eastwood Almost Returned as Dirty Harry in This Cancelled Project
One of the perennial movie stars and creative figures in Hollywood history, Clint Eastwood’s screen iconography is larger than the big screen itself. Few have captivated audiences across various genres and decades with the same passion. While he possesses more depth than this image, Eastwood will be widely remembered by general audiences as a masculine…
-
‘Any Which Way You Can’ Has More Monkey Sex Scenes Than Every Other Clint Eastwood Movie Combined
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.The…
-
Clint Eastwood’s 10 Most Popular Movies, According to Letterboxd
Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker, Clint Eastwood, has been one of Hollywood’s top leading men since the 1960s starring in classics such as Hang ‘Em High, Dirty Harry and Escape from Alcatraz. Eastwood got his first big break on the Old West series, Rawhide and after the success of Italian Spaghetti Westerns like The Good, the…
-
Dirty Harry at 50: Clint Eastwood’s seminal, troubling 70s antihero
The off-the-leash cop archetype was cemented with Don Siegel’s taut, provocative thriller that neither condemns or condones extreme measuresHarry Callahan is the cop we’ve been warned about. Though this week marks fifty years since Don Siegel’s genre-defining thriller Dirty Harry busted into cinemas with Smith & Wessons blazing, the general profile of dangerous, off-the-leash law…
-
The Dirty Harry Controversy Explained
As police brutality has once again become a powder-keg issue in recent years, depiction of police in films and TV is coming under the microscope as well. One of the most controversial cop figures in movie history is Clint Eastwood’s iconic Harry Callahan in “Dirty Harry.” There are many reasons they call him Dirty Harry,…
-
Buddy Van Horn, ‘Any Which Way You Can’ Director and Clint Eastwood’s Stunt Double, Dies at 92
Wayne “Buddy” Van Horn, veteran stuntman who worked with Clint Eastwood on over 30 films and directed “Any Which Way You Can” and “The Dead Pool,” died May 11, according to an obituary notice in the Los Angeles Times. He was 92.Sometimes credited as Wayne Van Horn, he started working with Eastwood as a stunt…