Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya?
You should, if you’re a Clint Eastwood fan. Because Warner Brothers has announced the forthcoming release of a massive retrospective box set of his work at the studio.
Clint Eastwood: 35 Films, 35 Years at Warner Bros. is set to hit stores Feb. 16 at $179.98, and will cover a large swathe of the squinting icon’s filmography, from 1968’s
Where Eagles Dare to last year’s
Gran Torino (which is 40 years of the icon's film journey).
It will also include
Eastwood Factor, a documentary on the filmmaker by Time magazine critic Richard Schickel.
The 19-disc set will, of course, comprise the
Dirty Harry pentalogy, as well as his Oscar-festooned works like
Unforgiven and
Million Dollar Baby. It also has some of his not-so-classics, like the geriatrics-in-orbit
Space Cowboys and the orangutan buddy comedy
Every Which Way But Loose.
But the real gems that make this set worthwhile are the truly excellent films scattered throughout his career that weren’t made during his much-revered Philip Rothian late-life burst of creativity. Like
Bird, his beautiful biopic of Charlie Parker;
White Hunter, Black Heart, his thinly veiled biopic of John Huston; the emotionally draining
A Perfect World; and
The Outlaw Josey Wales, which demonstrated an interest in deconstructing the genre that made him famous, the Western, way before
Unforgiven.
It’s a hell of a deal for any Eastwood fan. The only negative is it’s not available on Blu-ray.
It's being touted as the largest ever DVD box set featuring a single artist. But it's not the biggest DVD box set ever. For info about that, you have to go here :-
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