Santa Barbara festival to honor Eastwood

[Dan Dassow]

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2008/nov/21/s-barbara-festival-to-honor-eastwood/
S. Barbara festival to honor Eastwood
By Brett Johnson (Contact)
Friday, November 21, 2008

Iconic actor-director Clint Eastwood will receive the Santa Barbara International Film Festival's highest honor during its 2009 run in January, organizers announced Thursday.

Eastwood, a four-time Oscar winner, will receive the festival's Modern Master Award on Jan. 29 at the Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. ...

Eastwood made a cameo at the 2008 festival to present an award to Angelina Jolie, whom he directed in "Changeling."

The 24th annual Santa Barbara Festival will run from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 at various venues around town. The festival typically features 200-plus films, celebrity tributes, panels and other events and attracts 60,000 to 70,000 people.

Tickets for the Eastwood tribute are on sale now and are 20 percent off through Dec. 20. They are available at http://www.sbfilmfestival.org, or by calling the Arlington box office at 963-4408 or the Lobero Theatre box office at 963-0761. For general information on the festival, check out the Web site or call 963-0023.

[philo]

I guess it is OK to announce here that the festival has asked for my input on selection of materials to be shown at the tribute.
Am currently getting everything together to send to them.
As a thank you they have invited me to attend and I am going to be in California at the end of January as my late October holiday had to be cancelled.

Very much looking forward to it. 

Philo .

[KC]

That's terrific news, Philo! Congratulations!

[Sylvie]

I guess it is OK to announce here that the festival has asked for my input on selection of materials to be shown at the tribute.
Am currently getting everything together to send to them.
As a thank you they have invited me to attend and I am going to be in California at the end of January as my late October holiday had to be cancelled.

Very much looking forward to it. 

Philo .

That's fantastic Philo ! 

[Clint Van Wallach]

Very Cool!!

[higashimori]

   Sooooooo Cooooool , Philo !   " Nice Festival & Bon Voyage ! "

[Dan Dassow]

I guess it is OK to announce here that the festival has asked for my input on selection of materials to be shown at the tribute.
Am currently getting everything together to send to them.
As a thank you they have invited me to attend and I am going to be in California at the end of January as my late October holiday had to be cancelled.

Very much looking forward to it. 

Philo .

Congratulations Philo!
As a reminder the festival is in progress through February 1, 2009.

Pacific Coast Business Times link

Red carpet rolled out - Film Festival vendors count on last-minute reservations     
Written by Zac Estrada     
Sunday, 25 January 2009 

The stars are out for Santa Barbara’s film festival, but local companies are bracing for what a special appearance by the recession could spell for business.

As the first major tourist attraction of the year on the South Coast, the 24th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival began Jan. 22 and continues through Feb. 1. Many of the film screenings and award ceremonies during the 10-day festival feature notable actors and directors, such as Clint Eastwood and Kate Winslet.

Last year’s approximately 70,000 film festival attendees also helped boost area business at local hotels, shops and limousine services. Venues such as the Canary Hotel in Santa Barbara, now in its second year of a partnership with the film festival, said the pairing has been key to growth. ...

Briggs’ Cold Stone locations have been partnering with film festival organizers for seven years, but in the last few years the film festival’s executive director, Roger Durling, has inspired special flavors to coincide with the event. ...

Briggs and Durling have teamed up in recent years to create special flavors that correspond with the festival, sometimes specifically for the event. This year, five existing Cold Stone ice cream flavors are renamed in honor of the five award recipients.

Kate Winslet gets “Revolutionary Rocky Road;” Clint Eastwood has “Go Ahead, Make Mine Chocolate;” Mickey Rourke has “The Whip Cream Wrestler;” “Sticky Cherry Barcelona” is for Penelope Cruz; and “The English Toffee Patient” is  in honor of Kristin Scott Thomas. ...

[KC]

From that last quote ...

“The English Toffee Patient” is  in honor of Kristin Scott Thomas.

Now, THAT would have been a movie! "He fell in a vat of hot toffee! It's all over his body! You'll have to lick it off, Nurse Hana!"

[higashimori]

   " Clint Eastwood to receive award at the Santa Barbara film festival "

        http://www.ksby.com/global/story.asp?s=9754239

        Thursday, January 29, 2009
         Reported by: Emily Kiefer

       

An award winning actor, producer and director will be given a high cinematic honor tonight. Clint Eastwood has been selected to receive The Lucky Brand Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

This award is considered to be the festival's most prestigious honor.

Eastwood's latest film "Gran Torino" came in third last weekend at the box office.

He will be honored tonight at 8:00 p.m. at the historic Arlington Theatre.

[higashimori]

   " Clint Eastwood honored at Santa Barbara International Film Festival "

        http://www.ksby.com/global/story.asp?s=9758923

       

A living Hollywood legend walks the red carpet at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival to receive its highest honor.

Thursday night, Clint Eastwood took home the Modern Master Award for all of his movie accomplishments throughout the years.

Eastwood made a grand entrance at the festival by hopping over the barrier amidst his screaming fans.

"Yeah, I was in with the group," Eastwood joked. "I stay with the crowd."

 Eastwood has been to the festival before as a presenter. This time, he received the biggest honor for his decades of work. However, you can bet his time in film is far from over.

"There's a ton of people I haven't worked with. That's a fun thing about making movies. There's a lot of people, there's a lot of new parts that come along you need faces for," Eastwood said.

Renowned film critic Leonard Maltin sat down for a conversation with Eastwood. The 78 year old remembered back to when he first started, getting paid about $75 a week. "I wanted to learn as much as I could and work in pictures. I took any job that come along," Eastwood admitted.
 Sean Penn, who worked with Eastwood in the 2003 movie "Mystic River" presented the Modern Master Award to his former director. "He's just been somebody I'm very grateful to have had a chance to work with and nobody can be called master like Clint, so it's an appropropriate honor," Penn said.

Eastwood has said Gran Torino is probably his last acting role, but he also said Thursday night, "You're never too old to learn."

Santa Barbara International Film Festival ends February 1.

[higashimori]

   " Eastwood honored at festival " 

        http://www.thedailysound.com/News/013009eastwood2009-01-30T00-19-19

       

Say the name Clint Eastwood and a flash of images will appear: the gun-wielding cop in “Dirty Harry,” a lean and rough cowboy in countless westerns — also with a gun — a special agent for the American president, a gun there too, or maybe in the corner of a boxing ring, dabbing the blood from a fighter’s split lip. That grimace, that .44-caliber Magnum, the most tender of moments, and the most hardened. And perhaps most notably, that ability to not only act, but to direct and thrive in both seats at the same time.

That’s Eastwood. And one would be hard pressed to find a soul in the sold-out Arlington Theater who disagrees, even Sean Penn.

“There’s simply nobody better,” said Penn, who presented Eastwood with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Modern Master Award. “He does what politics should do; he makes us proud.”
 Few actors have matched Eastwood’s body of work. In fact, most would say no one has.

Leonard Maltin, the film festival’s go-to-guy for on stage interviews, kicked the night off with a disclaimer, urging the crowd to not overreact if he didn’t touch on every aspect of Eastwood’s storied resume.

“Maybe we’ll do a whole week some time,” he said. “Then maybe we’ll have a shot at it.”

When Eastwood, 78, walked onto the stage, a spotlight shining the way, a woman yelled, “You’re hot.”

Maltin said he could only hope that when he reaches that age, he’ll have as much luck.

“I tell people I’m 78,” Eastwood replied with a straight face. “I’m really only 38.”

With that, Maltin began churning through Eastwood’s career, starting pretty much from the beginning.

Back in the early 1960s, Eastwood said he had no idea what the future held, but rather, he was just happy to work.

“I didn’t envision anything,” he said. “I took any job that would come along.”

Making $75 a week, Eastwood continued doing small parts until he fell into the role of Rowdy Yates in the television series “Rawhide.”

During the season recess, Eastwood said he’d go to Europe where he worked with director Sergio Leone on “A Fistful of Dollars.”

But when he returned for another season of “Rawhide,” the work he’d been doing in Europe hadn’t been released yet in the states due to legal issues, he said.

When those films did start screening domestically, Eastwood arrived at the forefront of American cinema.

Maltin recalled seeing Eastwood in Leone’s films for the first time: “It was like somebody slapping you in the face and saying ‘look at this,’” he said.

Eastwood said Leone’s films so different, few, if any American directors would have dared take them on.

In a scene from “For a Few Dollars More,” the sequel to “A Fistful of Dollars,” Eastwood steps goes toe-to-toe with a rival, and steps on the man’s toes. The man returns the gesture, and Eastwood slugs him in the face.

As the man moves to retrieve his hat, Eastwood shoots it. Then, Eastwood shoots it again, and again, and again, until finally his revolver is out of range.

The other man places his hat on his head and pulls out a gun twice as big as Eastwood’s, and shoots the hat off his head. Before Eastwood’s hat can hit the ground, the man shoots it repeatedly, propelling the beaten hat into the air.

“Sergio had some good ideas,” Eastwood said. “I just thought this is great. I’m going to fly with this. What the hell?”

 With “Dirty Harry,” Eastwood said he read the script and said to himself, “I like this guy.”

While much of Eastwood’s early career had him entangled in rough and tumble westerns, he said he never wanted to be painted into one particular genre.

Eastwood also said he enjoys making statements with his films.

As “Dirty” Harry Callahan, Eastwood said he related to the character’s frustration with bureaucracy, though he admitted, to many fans’ disappointment, he wasn’t anything like Callahan.

In “The Beguiled,” Eastwood plays an injured civil war soldier who’s good with the ladies. He said he took to the role because it showed the “sickness of War.”

“The Beguiled” also marked Eastwood’s directorial debut.

 Since then, 1971 to be exact, Eastwood has gone on to direct more than 30 films, including a recent string that includes the likes of “Letters from Iwo Jima,” “Changeling,” “Mystic River,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Flags of Our Fathers,” and most recently, “Gran Torino.”

Eastwood has also starred in many of these films, a double-duty he doesn’t recommend.

“It’s always better to have someone else” acting or directing, he said.

As an actor, Eastwood said he was able to let go of his inhibitions, advice he often gives to acting students.

From the director’s chair, Eastwood said he gives actors space and tries not to interfere with the flow.

“I respect what they’re doing and I want the best for them,” he said. “I like to see what they bring.”

For those who miss seeing Eastwood in a cowboy hat, pistol on his side, it will take a script better than that used to make “Unforgiven” to lure him back.

“I have no ambition to try and top that,” he said of the film that earned him two of his four Oscars.

Asked about his notoriously strong work ethic, Eastwood simply said he’s the kind of guy who agrees to finish a project by a certain date, do it for a set price, and on a handshake, does it.

Then, he moves on to something else, a characteristic movie lovers have come to appreciate and expect from Eastwood on a regular basis.

“I don’t like wasting time,” he said. “I like to just do the job and then move on.”

 

       

[KC]

From the above ...

“The Beguiled” also marked Eastwood’s directorial debut.

Ooooooooooooops ...

(Clint did direct a featurette about Siegel and The Beguiled, "The Storyteller." That is sometimes considered his directorial debut.)

[Dan Dassow]

The Los Angeles Times - The Envelope link

The Feinberg Files by Scott Feinberg

Santa Barbara honors unlikely nominees Jenkins, Leo, Shannon, and Davis, and unlikely snubee Eastwood

The 24th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which began last Thursday and ends Sunday, has celebrated a refreshing blend of "actors" and "stars" this year, many of whom have played key roles in this year's award season. ...

Meanwhile, on Thursday evening, the festival presented its Modern Master Award to Clint Eastwood ("Gran Torino"), whose film was snubbed by the Academy earlier this month but embraced by the American public, which has turned it into his most commercially successful film yet, and which turned out in droves last night to help film historian/Q&A moderator Leonard Maltin honor the 78-year-old.

It's hard to say which night was more enjoyable -- the first offered brief but insightful chats with actors who couldn't hide their joy about getting some attention, let alone Oscar nominations, while the second featured a frequently honored genius who was able to wryly reflect upon an entire career in the spotlight now that he has entered the winter of his life.

Here are some highlights from each honoree's Q&A: ...

Eastwood, when asked what other present-day filmmakers he admires, said there were too many to name, but singled out as one example Sean Penn for his recent movie "Into the Wild" -- which makes sense to me, since it celebrates the same sort of rugged individualism that has defined Eastwood's screen persona. (Penn was also in the audience and later presented Eastwood with his award following a funny introduction in which he teased him about the growl he employs in "Gran Torino.") Reflecting on his early days as a contract player at Universal-International, Eastwood joked that he worked for pretty much anybody and everybody on the lot, save for Douglas Sirk, who was/is most famous for melodramas that tough-guy Eastwood called "flowery," to the audience's amusement. When asked to talk about directing oneself -- something only a few other noted filmmakers have done successfully, including Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, and Warren Beatty -- he said, "I don't recommend it." He speculated that it's worked for him because he's very organized in all aspects of his life -- "I don't like wasting time, whether it's in the movie business or not." Finally, he touched upon "Gran Torino," which he says he made to point out the fact that, "You're never too old to learn tolerance and to learn new things in life," and because "It just seemed like it touched on America today -- the car was a symbol of another time in America, and it seems like we lost our imagination somewhere along the way."

Posted by Scott Feinberg on January 30, 2009 in Oscar

[Dan Dassow]

Entertainment Tonight link
Clint Eastwood Honored at Santa Barbara Film Fest

2:20 Video of ET segment includes red carpet interview with Clint Eastwood, interview with Sean Penn and onstage with Leonard Maltin interviewing Clint Eastwood.

Independent link
SBIFF '09: Shooting the Red Carpet, Clint Eastwood and Sean Penn
Seeing the Stars Through Paul Wellman's Lens, Take Seven

Saturday, January 31, 2009
By Indy Staff

Every time the Santa Barbara International Film Festival rolls out the red carpet, The Independent's photographer Paul Wellman is on the scene, shooting away as the stars go by.  Here's his work from the Clint Eastwood Modern Master Award ceremony.

Photo Gallery
SBIFF 2009 Clint Eastwood and Sean Penn
Enlarge photos | View thumbnails

[higashimori]

   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/

     

Speaking of intros, Thursday night brought the aforementioned man who doesn't need one. As in The Man, Clint Eastwood, who, at a sprightly 78 years of age and despite being as prolific as ever, is clearly not all work: He hopped the velvet rope upon his arrival to the wrong spot in front of the Arlington, and stuck around the afterparty for hours, signing autographs, taking photos, and humoring the scads of ladies surrounding him. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The Tribute was fabulous: Leonard Maltin was at his best — as were Paul Fagen's montages and clip sequences — somehow managing to cover Eastwood's fifty-year career in what seemed like the blink of an eye. Sean Penn was on hand to present Eastwood with the Modern Master Award, and had a hard time keeping a straight face through his speech. He began by telling us that, back in the day when Clint was born, there were no ultrasounds, so women found out their babies' gender when they were born. And when Clint popped out at a whopping 11-plus pounds, the doctor declared, "It's a man!" Penn had even prepared sound effects: "We have a recording of his first cry," he said, cracking himself up and cuing a low growl.

And then, there was the afterparty, the VIP version of which went down at Café Luck. The peeps were fired up and the raw bars were on ice, and Eastwood and Penn were both there, mingling downstairs in a flash-bathed flurry before making their way upstairs to the V-VIP area, which I somehow managed to infiltrate. As I told my tablemates, the whole scene had a very Alice-in-Wonderland kind of a feel: between the low ceiling and the mini-(and ooooooh, soooooo delicious)-bacon-cheeseburgers, the waiters who kept appearing bearing platters of beautiful treats like watermelon-ahi skewers and chocolate-covered-banana popsicles, and mountains and mountains of French fries and bottles and bottles of wine, and the fact that Clint and Sean were sitting right next to us, seemingly having as good a time as the rest of us — it was definitely a trip.

And yeah, I did feel lucky .