At age 95, Clint Eastwood can claim to have directed every possible sort of movie.
He inaugurated his directorial career with a Hitchcockian thriller (1971’s Play Misty for Me) and most recently padded his 40-film résumé with a crackerjack courtroom thriller (2024’s Juror No. 2). In between, Eastwood has freely and rather restlessly applied his gifts to such unlikely projects as a biopic of jazz musician Charlie Parker (1988’s Bird), a soap opera set in flyover country (1995’s The Bridges of Madison County), and a jukebox musical (2014’s Jersey Boys). Eastwood is defined by an eye for the next challenge.
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