Clint Eastwood 35 Films 35 Years at Warner

Flaming Spaz on Mon, 1st Feb 2010 12:00 am 



CLINT is the best… there is no match to him…
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
CLINT is the best… there is no match to him…must own for all clint lovers….

R. Rockwell on Mon, 1st Feb 2010 12:00 am 



Awful packaging what was the studio thinking
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
As a fan of the older Clint Eastwood, I bought this collection to explore some of his earlier works. This collection is packed into a large book so big it will not fit on a shelf so that it was impossible not to place the films in a container. The films are unlabelled so you have to use a large guide to figure out which film it is, I am not reviewing any of the films because the presentation of this major contributor to cinema because to hard to figure out. Shame on the studio for releasing this bargain release.. I would much prefer paying twice as much for well presented 35 disk set NOT Recommended

Richardson on Tue, 2nd Feb 2010 12:00 am 



I’m not sure who this is marketed for/to….I am not a happy owner.
Rating:2 out of 5 stars
First things first, I greatly admire Clint Eastwood as an actor and director ,and he’s been the major film star of my baby boomer lifetime.

I just picked this set up so I am reviewing as an OWNER , not someone who has read the contents and wants to prattle on about Clints career at Warners. I was sad to find that the discs are the notorious Flippers (a movie on each side) instead of the far more stable single sided discs. Given that many of these movies are already available for under 10 bucks each This is still a cheap way to buy all of his movies for anyone that is that big a fan but who doesn’t already own them.. I’m a bit confused as to who they are marketing to? I am a big fan and own many of these but thought it might be a great way to house films in a smaller package and looked forward to the documentary and the book etc..

Extras…. the documentary is only a 21 minute “teaser” for the real one due this summer and NOT 16×9 but letterboxed 4:3 wow..that’s lame. They DO give you a web address and a code to get the whole documentary mailed out in the summer of 2010…but when you go to it, it says that address either doesn’t yet exist or has other troubles and come back later. Who knows what that is about…have so many people bought this and tried to redeem that their server crashed…not likely, probably just more corporate stupidity and “I thought you had set that up” finger pointing.

Book…is really a big nothing..tease for the real book in stores, and the pouch with a few photos ,again nothing special.

The Films…As I said, being that these are unstable “flipper discs” I am hesitant to get rid of the DVDs of the films I have and unlike some other multi disc sets I’ve recently purchased these will be scratched in removing and replacing for play…in fact you can NOT remove them without putting your hands on the surfaces of the discs (never recommended).

Bottom line, This isn’t really something for a true fan who would be better off it seems only buying the Clint films one wants in either DVD or Blu-Ray. There is NOTHING here for true fans but for somebody who owns virtually none of his movies and suddenly wants to spend over a hundred bucks (that seems a mutually exclusive notion) its a good value.

Were this released on Blu-Ray….I would be very happy and they would need not deal with flippers due to the storage capacity of Blu-Ray….but we see no such release in the near future.

To summarize…I’d stay away if you are a big fan, own the movies of CLints you already like and think this is some sort of “Cadillac” version..its more of a Pinto.

Anonymous on Thu, 4th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



Greatest Box Set Ever
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I am a 13 year old boy and just recieved this today and it is amazing! It has an amazing design, Cool pictures and messages, the book excert it is cool and has a paragraph about all the movies that are on this collection and listed are the all of the movies hes done work on except documenteries and Grace Is Gone. As a bonus theres and extended digital copy of the documentery. Also Clint Eastwood is the greatest actor ever so I had to get this and it did not disapoint.

Chris bct on Fri, 5th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



A prolific American movie star and director. Nice box.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I remember noticing him in Rawhide when it showed on TV. He had a presence, clean, youthfully laconic, wry and eminently watchable. Who knew that he could bang out so many films that 34 in 35 years still leaves out about another 11. Busy guy. My guess is his work ethic and sense of honor, commitment and artistic drive have kept him at it. I’m startled to see that in his late 70′s he was able to make Gran Torino. When I saw it I considered it to be his masterpiece, lean, insightful, an American experience and issues to consider. What struck me was that not a moment in the film was wasted. He cut to the bone. Editing to the fine point of the film. It’s evident that he has chosen to live this way. In a country in the grip of a weight problem he’s kept himself and his movies lean. I’m dyin’ to show Gran Torino to my 84 year old dad for the excellent father theme. It’s darned handy that we can purchase Fistful of Dollars / For A Few Dollars More / The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and Hang ‘em High in a set on amazon and High Plains Drifter/Joe Kidd and Two Mules For Sister Sara in another. I’ve never tried to collect all his movies but I’m darned tempted to get these three maybe with some of my tax refund. I had my eye on Where Eagles Dare for the last few years and finally purchased the DVD recently. Very satisfying. Clever, adventuresome an Clint perfectly cast as the American cool headed assassin in virtually a suicide mission. I’m sure hoping these films are in widescreen. I’ve grown to love that format so I can actually see all that the director intended to be seen. It’s more theatre viewing experience. Kelly’s Heroes belongs with the films I enjoyed in high school, clever, funny, adventuresome and defiant. Still a favorite. His lean acting style, a grimace communicating his thoughts on a subject, fit right in with this ensemble war film but with a 60′s attitude. I like buying DVDs to see my favorites without a TV channel logo in the corner, to see when I wanna see them, say, maybe when I retire and to see films I’ve never viewed before that I think I’d like to see. This box would accomplish that. I know I’d like to see the first 3 Dirty Harry flicks again and would like to see the fourth. I’d enjoy seeing The Outlaw Josie Wales again and would like to check out Honkeytonk Man. My wife said Space Cowboys was good but I couldn’t imagine a geratric space mission would make any sense at all. Caught most of it on TV recently and there was a real story there. Not bad at all. I’ve wanted to see Bird and this would be the perfect opportunity. Always had a thing for hardcore jazz. I love buying my dvds used. Amazon lets me do that because of the quality rating of the discs. I get the same chance at local outlets. If I can get a used movie for $5 or less I figure I’m doing well. Cheapest typically is $3. At the pre order price this box is less than four bucks a film. That’s economy I can live with. I’ve probably seen fewer than half these films and might not want to see a handful of them. It’d be great to have Letters From Iwo Jima. The ol man was in WWII and I’m confident that Clint did an honor bound piece on the subject. Really something to look forward to. Clint is our generation’s John Wayne, stoic, solitary, strong, confident, iconic, a figure that is recognized world wide as American. But our generation’s cuz he spread his wings, envelopes a core of friends on film, has a squint that questions the foolish things he sees some folks doin’ or thinkin’ and a moral compass that never bangs out an exploitation film, always has a message of commitment, honor and how to live life with your wits about you not scatter brained, even in his comedies. I think I’m gonna break down and get this box after the price goes down with some used ones becoming available, not that I expect a lot of them to show up with so many films in the box. Though I’m a fan I only own Where Eagles Dare and Mystic River and some episodes of Rawhide! It says something about Mr. Eastwood that he would maintain this long running relationship with a movie studio. Probably allows him to be so prolific. In an era of people going company to company over the length of a career he’s an example to us of what cultivating a long term working relationship can do. He’s like another of my favorite Americans, Frank Lloyd Wright who, career wise, was astonishing and worked the full length of his adult life deep into what most of us consider will be our retirement years. We all have a gift. Clint knows what his is. He found his character range in film and has kept honing his craft so that his latest films are the fruit of continually working to be more efficient and to tell a story that asks to be told, that commonly enhances our lives by posing some moral questions. God bless Clint Eastwood and thanks Warner Brothers for doing what appears will be a fine box set at an affordable price for what you get.


Will Munney on Sun, 7th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



BLU RAY WOULD MAKE MY DAY
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I won’t buy this, cuz I own all of these. In fact, I own every feature length production he’s ever starred in, directed or produced (yup – I’ve got ‘Breezy’ and ‘Monk: Straight, No Chaser’, and even the two movies he’s in which I consider lousy, ‘Paint Your Wagon’ and ‘The Rookie’). I am a fanatic.

Just yesterday, I was talking with a friend about Eastwood, and about what I find most inspiring about him. It’s not that he used to spend entire movies walking around shooting people or socking them in the face. Or on the directorial side of things, it’s not his distinctive, naturalistic, no-nonsense compositions and seamless editing choices. What impresses me most is what is reported about him behind the camera. I never tire of hearing the stories from cast and crew members who unanimously testify about the idyllic environment Eastwood fosters on his sets, enabling everyone to do the best work of their careers. Check out the extra stuff on the ‘Mystic River’ release, and you’ll hear from Penn, Bacon and Robbins – all accomplished directors in their own right – express simultaneous awe and befuddlement over how he can so effortlessly create such an envoirnment, while they cannot emulate it in their own subsequent productions. Conversely, I dig on the story about how, while filming ‘A Perfect World’, a petulant Costner stormed off the set over some sort of pettiness, and came back a half hour later to discover Eastwood had gotten his takes using Costner’s stand-in. When Costner sheepishly asked Eastwood if he had really done that, Eastwood replied, “I’m paid to shoot film.” A revealing choice of words – not something along the lines of “I’m the director, and I will therefore wave the bigger stick.” The response instead had everything to do with practicality and frugality, and responsibility – Eastwood as employee, doing the job he signed on for. It’s examples like these that go a long way towards illustrating why Eastwood, at 80, is still totally relevent, while a guy like Costner is mostly viewed as something of a bloated doofus. And the reason it’s the most personally inspiring facet of Eastwood as artist is that it’s an example of an ethic all the rest of us should bring to our own endeavors, because it’s all about honor.

Anyway, I’ve already got the Schickel book, and at least a dozen others about Eastwood, so the new documentary isn’t going to reveal much that I don’t already know. But, if Warners puts this set out on Blu Ray, then I’ll pay whatever they want to charge, even if it’s a kidney (not my own, of course). And to clarify, I already own all things Eastwood available on Blu Ray to date (not enough!).

I still give the set 5 stars, for all the people that don’t have this stuff yet. It’s especially great because for those who just want the Dirty Harrys and the westerns and the Oscar winners and whatnot, it will also expose them to some of the underrated stuff which I consider some of his most brilliant, like ‘Bronco Billy’, ‘Honkeytonk Man’, ‘Bird’ and ‘White Hunter, Black Heart’. Go out and buy it. Show props to the Old Cowboy. He can use another golf course.

L. Cabos on Tue, 9th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



Big Clint
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This would be a pretty sweet collection if I didn’t already have most of these and the others I don’t want. Others have wondered about the absence of certain popular Eastwood films films. Very simple: they weren’t released on DVD by Warner Home Video. A nice collection, though you can probably get all these films separately and not pay as much.

Collin "Samsonite!" P on Wed, 10th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



Looks great, but wish they cross-licensed
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
While this looks like a pretty sweet collection, and Clint will always hold a special place in my heart, it would be nice if they made a collection that included different studio’s films. Because, a true Clint collection is not complete without Escape From Alcatraz, Play Misty for Me, the Man With No Name trilogy, High Plains Drifter, and maybe a couple of others. Might still get this though when it’s on sale.

Alan W. Petrucelli on Fri, 12th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



Clint Eastwood at 35. No Jean Seberg, but lots of monkeying around
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
He’s a big star, but Clint Eastwood’s place in Hollywood is about to get bigger . . . while Warner Home Video will pocket some big change.

[insert drum roll here]

Coming on February 16, 2010: Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros., which the studio flaks are promising will be “a salute to a true motion picture legend . . . the largest single artist box set ever.”

Were you expecting anything else from the studio who gushes Eastwood’s “illustrious motion picture career has spanned more than a half century and has touched generations of filmgoers.” And, oh yes, a man who’s films have grossed nearly $2 billion at the domestic box office.

The collection, considered the largest feature film box set ever released for a single artist, contains 34 Eastwood films from the Warner library, including ( of course, or you wouldn’t reading this) the Dirty Harry movies. And please keep in mind that these are WB flicks only . . . no Paint Your Wagon here.

The 35th film is The Eastwood Factor, an intimate short film from Time critic and film historian Richard Schickel, which, the flaks insist “presents Eastwood in a way he’s rarely seen—visiting film locations or sites where his movies were created, and on the Warner lot visiting the costume department and Eastwood Scoring Stage, as well as at his home. Eastwood’s candid, intelligent and often humorous interviews about his body of work and the choices he made, along with Schickel’s selection of scenes from his movies (including his upcoming Invictus), results in an up-close and personal portrait of one of the great icons of our era.”

Here’s the icon with one of his most famous co-stars:

Adds Schickel: “I’ve known Clint for most of the time he’s been at Warner Bros. I was fortunate to be able to wander around the Warner lot with him and hear his reminiscences. To be able to show him in the places where he works and lives and feels most comfortable is, I think, a unique opportunity.”

To make sure fans are willing to shell out the $179.98 for the set, a sampling of the documentary is scheduled to run “on a minimum of 10,000 screens” nationwide in the first quarter of 2010.

To make sure things don’t head south, the Eastwood event will coincide with the publication of a 288-page book (also from Richard Schickel), ingenuously entitled Clint: A Retrospective. The book will shine as example of cross-marketing: A 20-minute version of the full-length documentary will accompany each book.

In a perfect world, all would be unforgiven.

calvinnme on Sat, 13th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



A rare long-term relationship between a director/actor and one studio
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Clint Eastwood has a long history with Warner Brothers that goes back forty years. You have to go back to 1975′s Eiger Sanction to find a film he did not direct at the studio, and he only directed a total of five films in his entire career that were not made at Warner Brothers. Since Clint Eastwood’s film career did not begin until long after the studio system died, this really is unique for a director and studio to have such a long relationship. As expensive as this set is, it is actually cheap per disc. That is because this is a repackaging of stock. Warner’s is simply taking existing transfers and placing them in this set, mainly on two-sided discs. This can be somewhat annoying for those of us who have bought multi-film packages of Eastwood’s Warner films.

I list all of the films below, whether Eastwood directed or starred or did both, and a short synopsis on the older films. If I do not mention him starring, that means he did not appear in the film as an actor at all.

Don’t let that popular internet film database fool you with its ratings. People often rate some of Eastwood’s lower key films poorly because they don’t get what he was trying to do. If you come to “Bronco Billy” expecting Harry Callahan you’ll be disappointed. If you come to it expecting a good film, then you won’t be. I’d say this is a definite buy if you don’t own any of Eastwood’s films. If you do, it just depends on how many you own as to whether this big package deal is worth it.

Do be aware that 16 of the 19 discs included are dual-sided.

WHERE EAGLES DARE(1968) – starring Clint Eastwood, second billed to Richard Burton.

A complex WWII film about soldiers on a mission to raid a castle and retrieve a captured officer.

KELLY’S HEROES (1970) – starring Clint Eastwood

A different WWII story. A group of soldiers are out to find a cache of German gold – for themselves.

DIRTY HARRY (1971) – Starring Clint Eastwood.

The original Dirty Harry film.

MAGNUM FORCE (1973) – starring Clint Eastwood and Hal Holbrook.

Dirty Harry is after a band of vigilante cops. Has the famous closing line “A man’s got to know his limitations.”

THE ENFORCER (1976) – starring Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daly.

Dirty Harry has a female partner as he hunts down a terr orist organization

THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALES (1976) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, costarring Sondra Locke. The violence of the Civil War turns a man into a renegade out for revenge.

THE GAUNTLET (1977) – directed by and costarring Clint Eastwood and costarring Sondra Locke.

Eastwood is a cop taking a prostitute to testify at a trial and there are powerful forces out to make sure that testimony never happens.

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE (1978) – stars Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke.

A box office smash when released, Clint Eastwood in a pseudo-comedy costarring Clyde the orangutan.

BRONCO BILLY (1980) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Costarring Sondra Locke.

A good film, but underrated because Eastwood was showing his serious side.

ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN (1980) – starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke.

Sequel to Every Which Way But Loose

HONKEYTONK MAN – (1982) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

Very much underrated and shows Eastwood’s passion for music early in his directing career.

FIREFOX (1982) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.

Good performance by Eastwood, but the Cold War plot and crude graphics have really aged this one.

SUDDEN IMPACT (1983) – directed and starring Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke.

Locke stars as a crime victim after revenge in this Dirty Harry film.

CITY HEAT (1984) – starring Clint Eastwood

Burt Reynolds was nominated for a Raz zie for acting in this one.

TIGHTROPE (1984) – starring Clint Eastwood and Genevieve Bujold

PALE RIDER (1985) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

HEARTBREAK RIDGE (1986) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

BIRD (1988) – directed by Clint Eastwood

The oldest of these films to not actually star Eastwood. Story of Jazz musician Charlie Parker.

THE DEAD POOL (1988) – starring Clint Eastwood and Patricia Clarkson

The last Dirty Harry film.

PINK CADILLAC (1989) – starring Clint Eastwood and Bernadette Peters

The most recent film in the bunch in which Eastwood does not direct. Not very good, but it was made to be light summer fare.

WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART (1990) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

THE ROOKIE (1990) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

UNFORGIVEN (1992) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood – Best Picture Winner

A PERFECT WORLD (1993) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY (1995) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

ABSOLUTE POWER (1997) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (1997) – directed by Clint Eastwood

TRUE CRIME (1999) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

SPACE COWBOYS (2000) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

BLOOD WORK (2002) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

MYSTIC RIVER (2003) – directed by Clint Eastwood – Best Picture Nominee

MILLION DOLLAR BABY (2004) – directed by and starring Clint Eastwood – Best Picture Winner

LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA (2006) directed by Clint Eastwood – Best Picture Nominee

GRAN TORINO(2008) directed by and starring Clint Eastwood

Anonymous on Sun, 14th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



Clint Eastwood is the greatest actor on Earth!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I can not wait for this item!! all of these are movies and I am 100% sure about that. this is aaaaaaaaaa huge deal. I am a 13 year-old boy and watched my first Clint Eastwood movie about 6 months ago which was Every Which Way But Loose, well unless you count Casper(yes he was in about 10 seconds of it). and so far I’ve watched the following in order from favorite to least favorite:Dirty Harry, Gran Torino, High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, Space Cowboys, Escape From Alcatraz, For A Few Dollars More, Every Which Way But Loose, Bronco Billy, Changeling, Two Mules For Sister Sara, Any Which Way You Can, and Casper. All of these are some of my favorite movies(except Casper I didn’t even like it that much when I was 6). I was going to ask for the Dirty Harry collection for Christmas until I saw this. All in all I want to see all these movies and can’t wait.

A. N. Hibdon on Mon, 15th Feb 2010 12:00 am 



uninformed
Rating:1 out of 5 stars
Looks great…my husband is a HUGE Clint Eastwood fan…I’m just curious as to WHAT this “collection” holds…Is it a biogrophy? A collection of movies? A book with some pictures? Hmmmmmmmmmmm. A bit more detail would be nice before paying $125.00 and not knowing what you’re getting…

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