"American Masters" Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows (2000)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Bruce Ricker

Writer:

Dave Kehr (written by)

TV Series:

"American Masters" (1983)

Original Air Date:

29 August 2000

Genre:

Documentary | Biography | History | Music | Romance

Plot:

Documentary that explores actor/director Clint Eastwood and his art by juxtaposing each major stage...

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title | Reenactment | Male Female Relationship

Cast

Richard Burton	...	Himself - Actor (archive footage)
Joel Cox	...	Himself - Film Editor
Clint Eastwood	...	Himself
Dina Eastwood	...	Herself - Wife / TV Journalist (as Dina Ruiz Eastwood)
Morgan Freeman	...	Narrator
James Garner	...	Himself - Actor
William Goldman	...	Himself - Screenwriter / Novelist
Jack N. Green	...	Himself - Director of Photography
Gene Hackman	...	Himself - Actor
Curtis Hanson	...	Himself - Director
Nat Hentoff	...	Himself - Writer
Phyllis Huffman	...	Herself - Casting Director
Joe Hyams	...	Himself - Senior V.P. Publicity Warner Bros.
Dani Janssen	...	Herself - Actor
Pauline Kael	...	Herself - Film Critic (archive footage)
Sergio Leone	...	Himself - Director (archive footage)
Geoffrey Lewis	...	Himself - Actor
Janet Maslin	...	Herself - Critic 'The New York Times'
Bill McKinney	...	Himself - Actor
Walter Mosley	...	Himself - Writer
Lennie Niehaus	...	Himself - Composer
Chan Parker	...	Herself (archive footage)
Barry Reardon	...	Himself - Former President Warner Bros. Distribution
Richard Schickel	...	Himself - 'Time' Critic / Clint Eastwood Biographer
Martin Scorsese	...	Himself - Director
Don Siegel	...	Himself - Director (archive footage)
Richard Slotkin	...	Himself - Author 'Gunfighter Nation'
Meryl Streep	...	Herself - Actor
Donald Sutherland	...	Himself - Actor
Bertrand Tavernier	...	Himself - Director
Rip Torn	...	Himself - Actor
Tonino Valerii	...	Himself - Assistant Director (archive footage)
Buddy Van Horn	...	Himself - Director / Stunt Coordinator
Eli Wallach	...	Himself - Actor
Forest Whitaker	...	Himself - Actor / Director
Ruth Wood	...	Herself - Mother

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | Australia:MA | Germany:12 | New Zealand:R13

Company:

Rhapsody Films

doesn't get too personal, just the facts on his long career, great clips

This isn't a biography of one of the big icons, never mind movie stars, of the past forty or so years, Clint Eastwood. But it is a perfect (if maybe just slightly short) take on his career as a whole, how he practically fell into acting, and how he has crafted the kind of niche most actors only wish they could attain. He is also shown as a consummate professional as a director, and a lover of jazz. It's really just what it appears to be, a retrospective, but it is one that goes to just that right adulatory rate. The many interviews talk of Clint's star presence, his ambiguity and quiet-side, and how he probably makes for the most lean-moviemaker ever (not in the physical sense necessarily, just in how his films go). I also really enjoyed seeing them go into depth on the films Bird and Unforgiven, as well as giving both sides to the Dirty Harry issue. And Eastwood himself speaks without any pretense, he just speaks his mind on the facts of his career and of the films, no BS (especially when talking of the good and bad of the Sergio Leone films, plus the influence of Don Siegel). Fans should seek it out if they can, either on DVD or on TV by chance. It only goes to, obviously, 2000, and two of his best films have been made since then (with more time to come for others perhaps).