File 8 - Clint Eastwood

1 audio cassette tape, 2 WAV files (646.3 MB and 64.2 MB)

Audio recording of an interview with actor and film director Clint Eastwood front of a live audience as part of the Guardian sponsored National Film Theatre Guardian interview series.

The recording begins with a representative of the National Film Theatre introducing the event and a screening of his latest film Mystic River. Host Michael Parkinson then proceeds to put questions to Eastwood. Several film clips are played during the course of the interview. The recording comprises a question and answer session with members of the audience from 45.20 on track 1.

A summary of the topics discussed is included below.

Track 1:
00.00 Introductions
03.15 Mystic River
07.54 The state of movie making
09.23 Working with actors, directing style
14.32 Beginning of career: interest in movies, actors admired, becoming an actor
20.50 Early acting career: Rawhide, learning about filmmaking from Sergio Leone and Don Siegal
25.23 Unforgiven: characters, westerns
32.30 Criticism of Dirty Harry
35.09 Acting style
30.07 Choices of films
39.50 In the Line of Fire: attraction to the film
43.15 More on film choices, including Bird
46.28 Birdman of Alcatraz
48.06 Directors and actors he admires
49.40 Acting versus directing
52.33 Being a movie star
59.08 Taking risks in his career
56.00 Views about awards
57.10 Profitability of films
59.00 Negative reviews
59.50 The British film industry and film making in general

Track 2:
00.00 The British film industry and film making in general (cont.)
00.50 Views on writing
01.18 Whether films are just great moments
2.54 Future plans.

Films mentioned in the course of the interview include: Dirty Harry; Mystic River; The Bird; Birdman of Alcatraz; In the Line of Fire and Rawhide.

Creator: British Film Institute (BFI), 1933-

Creator: Guardian News & Media Ltd, 1967-

Access to recording via GNM Digital Repository