The Legend of Clint Eastwood
The Eastwood Factor, 2010
Who better to conduct an intimate career appraisal of Eastwood than his biographer, Richard Schickel? The Eastwood Factor, made for Turner Classic Movies and now on DVD, boasts unprecedented access to Clint: clips of his rehearsals, a stroll with him through the Warner Bros. back lot where so many of his films were made and a literal look in his closet, where 40 years of Eastwood wardrobe is stored. Follow the Clint canon from the icon-establishing Dirty Harry ("I had no idea whether anyone wanted to see it; but, I figured, I'd like to see it") to the Oscar-dominating Unforgiven (it was his last western because "I don't know what else I'd have to say" in the genre) to another multiple Oscar-winner, Mystic River ("It just felt together kinda nicely"). Prying insights out of a soft-spoken man, Schickel offers a life portrait of an 80-year-old who ain't done yet.