Did you know Tommy Lee Jones is directing a Western? If you did, WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY?
Ben Affleck has become the latest Hollywood actor to split his attention between the front and the back of the camera, and has just scored the ultimate success in film by collected the Best Picture Oscar for Argo. So we at Best for Film decided to take a look at some of the most successful actor-directors down the years to see in whose multi-tasking footsteps he should be following. Here is BFF’s Top 10 Actor-Directors. Enjoy it, punks.
Having recently delivered middlebrow stodge like Invictus, Hereafter and J. Edgar from the director’s chair, it’s been a while since Clint Eastwood has had a chance to chew some scenery. With directing duties left to longtime collaborator Robert Lorenz, Eastwood steps in front of the camera once more, finding the same ardent growl that made Gran Torino such an enjoyable boilermaker of a film. Unfortunately, Trouble with the Curve is as toothless as the man himself, a catatonic baseball drama that suffers from the same mouldy traditionalism championed in Eastwood’s cranky talent scout.
Clint Eastwood is a man whose name you should know. Even if he occasionally has no name. He is a bona fide, genuine legend of the big screen. And he has 12 different Wikipedia pages. Trouble with the Curve, released on Friday, resurrects Eastwood’s now traditional persona of grizzly-pensioner-with-hidden-depths in his first acting role in a film he hasn’t directed since 1993. Growl.
She didn’t like it. She’s not putting a ring on it. Ba-dum-tish. We’re here all week people…try the veal.
Even DiCaprio’s firmest putting-on-glasses-then-taking-off-glasses can’t puncture this thick, bland-tastic portrait of the man who started the the FBI. Sexuality scandals, deep-rooted mummy issues, a hatred for Martin Luther King and loads and loads of holding guns – how on earth did Clint Eastwood manage to make this chap so dull?
It’s a brand new year, the world is full of hope and yet somehow, it’s still Monday. We’ve decided enough is enough. Every Monday we’ll be bringing you something BRILLIANT to do this week – that ought to show it, the sneaky rogue. To kick us off: did someone say comedy Clint Eastwood musicians?
You know what’s awesome? Cowboys. Well, not actually, in reality they were poor vagrants, but Wild West gunfighters are cool. And so’s being drunk! Let’s combine the two, slip in the first of Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy and unholster that booze.
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