Santa Barbara festival to honor Eastwood

[philo]

  They seem to get drank much !     Because this evening Clint was not with Dina................?   

                                 


     http://www.independent.com/news/2009/jan/30/sbiff-09-peeping-virtuous-and-clint-eastwood/

     

Dina was there.
I return home on Tues and will post a short review and some pictures that I took.

Philo .

[higashimori]

Dina was there.
I return home on Tues and will post a short review and some pictures that I took.

Philo .

   So , did you meet Clint and Dina , Philo ?        That's great !  I hope that you enjoyed the festival  &  I' m waiting your posting patiently !   

[philo]

Hi All,

Still in LA as snow in London cancelled my flight.
Should be on my way Tues, home Wed Uk time.

After some sleep will post.

Philo .

[Dan Dassow]

Hi All,

Still in LA as snow in London cancelled my flight.
Should be on my way Tues, home Wed Uk time.

After some sleep will post.

Philo .

Philo, I am looking forward to your post. In the meantime, here is a different perspective on the red capet experience at the Santa Barbara festival.

Daily Nexus link
University of California, Santa Barbara

Clint Eastwood Has Still Got It, Baby
By Michael Hafford / Staff Writer

Published Thursday, February 5, 2009
Issue 71 / Volume 89

You almost begin to feel like cattle as a journalist covering red carpet events at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. You’re sent through the chute with your fellow journalists and paparazzi and then made to stand at your marked spot while everyone leans over the railing and looks to see if that’s Clint Eastwood. Thankfully, however, they spare you from being shot in the forehead with an air gun, getting hung upside down and then being cut into steaks.

It’s certainly an interesting crowd: I was sandwiched between a high school reporter, at least 10 kids from a middle school and a tall woman with a thick Italian accent who claimed to be from Rolling Stone (and who proceeded to be hit on by a tall mustachioed man filming a spot for a meaningless Santa Barbara-based Web site). What he said was true, if everyone checking their watches and getting increasingly pissed wondering why the hell is film critic Leonard Maltin the only “celebrity” here passes as “palpable excitement.”

At some point, Sean Penn showed up (with a mustache so thick and fantastic you’d swear he was preparing for a career in porn), walked past the cameramen, appeared to hide behind a column for a few minutes, regroup and then basically run past the rest of the reporters, failing to respond to my shouted query about whether or not he regretted going full retard for “I Am Sam.” Now we’ll never know.

Clint Eastwood followed, looking what can only be described as a youthful 78.

“I still got it, baby!” he exclaimed, before telling the group of middle school kids to do everything their parents tell them before walking into the theater.

Interspersed throughout the interview were several clips from Eastwood’s filmography that can only be described as oddly selected. For every scene from “Per qualche dollaro in più” (“For a Few Dollars More”) when Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef have a tense gun battle, there is one more in the vein of the “Million Dollar Baby” scene where Eastwood said - I swear to God - one line during the entire clip while (spoiler alert!) Hillary Swank was dying in the hospital bed and delivering a monologue that was dramatic in context but weird during the middle of an awards show.

This sort of gives new meaning to Alfred Hitchcock's quote:

I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.

[Dan Dassow]

Variety link

Peter Bart
Posted: Fri., Feb. 6, 2009, 3:16pm PTEastwood type: No talk, all action
Prolific icon undeterred by award season hype

ALWAYS THE GOOD TROOPER, Clint Eastwood cheerfully showed up last weekend for his "Modern Master Award" at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, defying those snarky types who thought he would skip the event because he'd been snubbed by the Globes and Oscars.
But Clint is not a no-show guy. Indeed, at age 78 (he joked to the crowd that his real age is 38) I don't think he gives a damn how Oscar voters view his work -- he just keeps turning out the product.

And it's great product -- "Gran Torino" deserved plaudits for actor, director and picture. The film, typically lean and mean, was also his highest-grossing movie ever. But Clint's already plunging ahead with his next two projects, undeterred by the "noise" of the award season.

Indeed, Clint's unique productivity sets him apart from the other members of the septuagenarian superstar circle -- Clint, Beatty and Redford. Even as Eastwood becomes ever more productive, Beatty and Redford continue to hunker down on the sidelines.

There's been random speculation among their friends and associates as to why this is true. I have been involved in making films with each of them, but by no means claim membership in their inner circle, so my observations are those of an outsider/insider. ...

In prepping a movie, Clint Eastwood will usually tell his writer, "I like it, don't change it," while Redford is big on rewrites. He is as intelligent as he is nonconfrontational -- if he doesn't like something, he simply disappears. While Clint's style is dead-on look-you-in-the-eye, Redford is remote but is also a control freak. Even in his film roles, Redford never surrenders control.

Eastwood, by contrast, is neither as articulate nor as cerebral as Redford or Beatty, but while Redford learned how to start a great festival, Clint knows how to start great movies. Arguably, Eastwood's a prisoner of the Old Hollywood dictum that the work speaks for itself. Writers should write, directors should direct -- it's about the work, not the meetings.

I respect all three of these men. All have made extraordinary contributions to our popular culture.

But I'm especially proud of Clint for getting the work done.

[Christopher]

But Clint's already plunging ahead with his next two projects...

What's the other one?

[philo]

As far as I remember he mentioned two projects but only gave full details of the Nelson Mandela project.
Leonard Maltin didn't push him on what the other one was.


Philo .

[Lin.]

I am really looking forward to reading your news about the Santa Barbara Festival, Philo.   

Hope you have recovered from the delays and probably lack of sleep the weather threw at you.

[philo]

Hi Lin,
Will really try and get this sorted over the next couple of days.

Have the "usual" hassles going on at the moment. 


Philo .

[Lin.]

Thanks Philo.   

[Lin.]

Sean Penn presented Clint with the Modern Master Award.
Below is a link to some of the things he said. Also Clint talking about Gran Torino, Dirty Harry and the future.

Taken from Film.com

http://www.film.com/celebrities/clint-eastwood/story/clint-eastwood-talks-gran-torino/25967609