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THE BULLETIN • MAY 27 - JUNE 2, 2021
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“Movie: Saint Maud”
“My Name Is Earl”
“Movie: The Seagull”
This chilling 2019 British horror
film stars Morfydd Clark (“His
Dark Materials”) as a nurse who
is shattered when she fails to save
the life of a patient in her care.
Relocating to an English seaside
town, she becomes a devout
Catholic, takes a job as a caregiver
with a hospice service and becomes
obsessed with saving the soul of a
cancer-stricken dancer.
This sitcom that originally aired on
NBC from 2005 to 2009 stars Jason
Lee (“Almost Famous”) as the title
character, a small-time thief whose
life is transformed when he wins a
bit of money in the lottery and hears
some inspiring words from Carson
Daly. He makes it his mission to
right all the wrongs he’s done. Ethan
Suplee, Nadine Velazquez and Jaime
Pressly also star.
Based on the Anton Chekhov play,
this 2018 comedy-drama is set in the
early 1900s and follows the story of
a love triangle that forms among an
aging diva, her lover and a neighbor
during a visit to the actress’ brother
at his picturesque lakeside estate.
Annette Bening, Corey Stoll, Saoirse
Ronan and Elisabeth Moss head a
talented cast for director Michael
Mayer (“Flicka”).
BY JAY BOBBIN
“The Bridges
of Madison
County”
“Million Dollar Baby”
“Gran Torino”
“Dom”
From Brazil comes this crime drama
series that’s inspired by the true story
of a police officer who dedicated his
life and career to the war on drugs
and wound up as one of the most
wanted criminals in Rio de Janeiro.
Gabriel Leone (“Mercy”) stars as
the title character Pedro Dom, in a
cast with Flávio Tolezani and Filipe
Braganca. (ORIGINAL)
BEST CLINT EASTWOOD MOVIES
“A Fistful of Dollars” (1964) During a
hiatus from his television Western “Rawhide,”
Eastwood went to Spain to work with director
Sergio Leone on what would be the first Man
With No Name saga. The rest, as they say, is
history.
“Hang ‘Em High” (1968) Proving he also
could make an effective screen Western in the
American style, Eastwood played a wrongful
hanging victim saved, deputized ... and filled
with vengeance. Turner Classic Movies shows
the film Saturday, June 5.
“Where Eagles Dare” (1968) In one
of his last films not under his creative control,
Eastwood teamed with Richard Burton in
novelist Alistair MacLean’s exciting World War
II adventure.
“The Beguiled” (1971) A banner year
for Eastwood started with this memorably
eerie drama of a wounded Civil War soldier
recuperating at an all-girl school.
“Play Misty for Me” (1971) Eastwood
turned director for the first time with this “Fatal
Attraction” forerunner about a disc jockey
plagued by an obsessed fan (Jessica Walter).
“Dirty Harry” (1971) Another iconic
Eastwood role began with director Don Siegel’s
original tale of the maverick San Francisco
police detective.
“Thunderbolt and Lightfoot” (1974)
Though Eastwood has top billing, he knowingly
lets Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy have the
showier roles in this engrossing robbery tale.
“The Outlaw Josey Wales” (1976)
Back in the Civil War milieu, director and star
excelled as a peaceable man driven to violence
by his family’s massacre.
“Bronco Billy” (1980) Eastwood tried
something enjoyably different with this character
study of a spirited showman whose traveling
Wild West attraction has fallen on hard times.
“Unforgiven” (1992) The Oscars finally
recognized Eastwood for his Western saga of
an ex-gunman opposing a corrupt lawman
(Gene Hackman).
“In the Line of Fire” (1993) Eastwood
was completely convincing as a Secret Service
veteran determined to protect the president from
a wily assassin (John Malkovich).
“The Bridges of Madison County”
(1995) As director and co-star, Eastwood was
inspired as Meryl Streep’s suitor in the middle-
aged romance based on Robert James Waller’s
bestseller.
“Million Dollar Baby” (2004) Again in
Oscar-caliber form, star and director Eastwood
did much to bring Hilary Swank her second
Academy Award in this boxing drama.
“Gran Torino” (2008) In what he said at
the time would be his last acting role, Eastwood
(again the director here, too) was ideal as a
crusty war veteran forced by a neighbor’s plight
to face his prejudices.