A family of five travels down a single dirt road, endless desert on either side, toward a destination they must reach before dark. They don’t quite make it, a torrential storm batters their car, and they’re being followed by a mysterious stranger whose intentions are unknown to them. Both cars stop for a shelter at a remote shack, where raw meat hangs on hooks. If that doesn’t … [Read more...]
Eastwood’s ‘Hereafter’ exquisite, unforgettable
A few years ago, when Clint Eastwood directed Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima – his sobering companion films about World War II, told evenhandedly from both sides of the conflict – it seemed the best time to reflect on Eastwood’s directorial canon. At the time, I analyzed Eastwood’s evolution from a two-dimensional icon of Western-movie chauvinism and hard-right … [Read more...]