Tag: The Outlaw Josey Wales
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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…
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Western Icon Clint Eastwood’s Best Films Aren’t Actually Westerns
The mythology of the Western genre would be left unrealized if not for Clint Eastwood. The legendary actor-director, who remains active in the field into his 90s, serves as a one-two punch with John Wayne as the figure who shaped the iconography of the American frontier, with Eastwood more willing to expose a darker underbelly…
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‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Sound Mixer Gregg Rudloff Dies at 63
Gregg Rudloff, who won Academy Awards for sound mixing “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Matrix,” and “Glory” and was nominated four other times, died in Los Angeles on Jan. 6. He was 63.A representative for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office told Variety that the office is treating his death as a possible suicide with…
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Sondra Locke, actor and former partner of Clint Eastwood, dies at 74
Actor starred in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, before role in Eastwood’s The Outlaw Josey WalesSondra Locke, the American actor who was nominated for an Oscar for her first film before co-starring in six films with her one-time partner, Clint Eastwood, has died.The actor, who was 74, died at her home in Los Angeles…
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Splice is right: has Disney stumbled upon the perfect Star Wars formula?
Solo and Rogue One have both struck gold after hiring an old hand to resolve early chaos. Coincidence?There are few clearer indications that a big-budget Hollywood movie is in trouble than a change of director. It is not always the signal for a production to descend into chaos and ignominy – for every Exorcist: The…