Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood

ISBN-13: 9781845119027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 288 str.

Howard Hughes

Opis

Clint Eastwood is one of the world's most popular action stars, who has matured into one of America's finest producer-directors. Entertaining, illuminating and packed with information, Aim for the Heart is the first book to cover his full life in the movies, showing how as both actor and filmmaker Eastwood aims for the heart of the drama, whatever the story. Howard Hughes follows Eastwood's craft through over 50 movies. He looks at his beginnings in fifties B-movies and in TV's Rawhide and his launch into superstardom in Sergio Leone's sixties spaghetti westerns. Later roles are discussed, including Beguiled, The Bridges of Madison County and Million Dollar Baby. Since 1970, Eastwood has enjoyed parallel success as director-producer of his own Malpaso Productions, with Bird, Mystic River and Letters from Iwo Jima, demonstrating formidable directing credentials. Alongside details of all his movies, Eastwood's story is illustrated with film stills, glimpses behind the scenes, and rare poster advertising material. Also featuring the most comprehensive credits filmography ever compiled on Eastwood's work, as star and director.

Spis treści

Contents:AcknowledgmentsClintessence: The Appeal of The Man With No NameUniversal Casting: The Early FilmsRidin' Easy: 'Rawhide'Part One: The Westerns'A Fistful of Dollars' (1964, 'For a Few Dollars More' (1965), 'The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (1966),'Hang 'Em High' (1968), 'Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), Joe Kidd (1972), 'High Plains Drifter (1973), 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' (1976), 'Pale Rider' (1985), 'Unforgiven' (1992).Part Two: The Cops: 'Coogan's Bluff' (1968), 'Dirty Harry' (1971), 'Magnum Force' (1973), 'The Enforcer' (1976), 'The Gauntlet' (1976), 'Sudden Impact' (1983), 'Tightrope' (1984), 'City Heat' (1984), 'The Dead Pool' (1988), 'The Rookie' (1990), 'In the Line of Fire' (1993), 'A Perfect World' (1993).Part Three: The Lovers'The Witches' (1967), 'Paint Your Wagon' (1969), 'The Beguiled' (1971), 'Play Misty for Me' (1970),'Breezy' (1973), 'The Bridges of Madison County (1995).Part Four: The Comedies'Every Which Way But Loose' (1978), 'Bronco Billy' (1980), 'Every Which Way You Can' (1980, 'Pink Cadillac (1989).Part Five: The Dramas'Honkytonk Man' (1982), 'Bird' (1988), 'White Hunter Black Heart (1990), 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), 'Space Cowboys' (2000), 'Mystic River (2003), 'Million Dollar Baby' (2004).Part Six: The Thrillers'Thunderbolt and Lightfoot' (1974), 'The Eiger Sanction (1975), 'Escape from Alcatraz' (1979), 'Absolute Power' (1996), 'True Crime' (1999), 'Blood Work' (2002).Part Seven: The War Movies'Where Eagles Dare' (1969), 'Kelly's Heroes' (1970), 'Firefox' (1982), 'Heartbreak Ridge' (1986), 'Flags of Our Fathers' (2006), 'Letters from Iwo Jima' (2006).

O autorze

Filmwriter Howard Hughes is the author of the Filmgoers' Guides: 'Once Upon a Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns'; 'Crime Wave: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Crime Movies', and 'Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns', all I.B. Tauris.