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USA, 2007, 81 Minute Running Time Genre/Subject: Biopic Program: Documentary FilmsLanguage: English
DIRECTOR: Michael Wilson
Enduring maverick, emergent enigma, ever-evolving Hollywood legend: over the course of five decades, Clint Eastwood has managed to avoid the pitfalls of the star system and wrest creative control of nearly every aspect of the filmmaking process from the corporate powers-that-be. As a young contract player in the era of major studios, he champed at the bit for a chance to prove himself as an artist. Since then he has earned his stripes before and behind the camera: whether acting, producing, composing or directing, he remains unafraid to challenge audiences – continually surprising them and surpassing himself. A 20-year acquaintance with the man and his work led French-born film historian and director Michael Henry Wilson to make Clint Eastwood: A Life in Film. Using the post-production of Eastwood’s Oscar-winning World War II diptych as his springboard, Wilson engages the notoriously reticent Eastwood in a surprisingly easygoing and intimate dialogue about the ways in which the past shapes the present – be it biographical, historical or cinematic. Unique access not only to behind-the-scenes footage of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima but also to Eastwood’s own photo albums further colors Wilson’s simple, earnest portrait of Eastwood as a genuine auteur – for all his humility as capable of illuminating Charlie Parker’s wounded soul as he is of capturing Dirty Harry’s lightning. As Wilson himself puts it, “[Eastwood] perpetuates the classic tradition of storytelling…one that value[s] character development, emotional range and a complex moral perspective….He’s one of our last filmmakers making meaningful films for adults, films that challenge all our preconceived notions about justice, heroism and the American Way." NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE In person – Michael Henry Wilson