The Last Picture Show?
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one more time
Clint Eastwood is 91, and has made another western.
Clint Eastwood doesn’t seem to have any interest in retiring. At age 91, Eastwood is the director and star of the new Warner Bros. movie Cry Macho, which will be released September 17 in both theaters and on the streaming service HBO Max. He is also one of the film’s producers.
This is a movie that has been trying to get made for a long time now, and with some rather heavyweight names attached to it. It took Eastwood’s legendary clout and prodigious talent — he’s got two “Best Director” and “Best Picture” Oscars — to finally get it done.
With his latest film “Cry Macho,” Clint Eastwood treads where many men have tried, but failed, before. The neo-Western is based on a book by N. Richard Nash from 1975, and since then, a handful of Hollywood leading men have tried to tackle the role of a washed-up horse breeder on the road to redemption, from Roy Scheider and Burt Lancaster, to Pierce Brosnan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
I see maybe one movie every 5 years or so, but c’mon, man, how many films does this guy still have left? I’m going.
(I thought I’d seen my last western when this one ended.)
