'Australia' Emotional Trip Home For Director Nov 27, 2008
The director said that he sought to connect with audiences' Western movie sensibilities early on in the film to capitalize on Jackman's striking resemblance to a film icon in his younger years -- during the time when Clint Eastwood was making his name as a high plains drifter. "It was intentional to make the introduction of Hugh's character to feel a little bit like those Sergio Leone Westerns," Luhrmann explained. (Click2Houston, TX)
Being a coward has some advantages Nov 13, 2008
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973): Poor Clint Eastwood. Imagine being a gun-slinging tough stuck in a town full of ninnies. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Marc Wehrs: Credit crisis prompts comparison with 1930s Oct 23, 2008
High Plains Drifter wrote: Good thing they weren t released in Galesville. The city council woulda had a bird. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Who’s at fault for the big, bad pigs? Former Gays Mills elk farm owner accused of releasing the hogs in Crawford County Oct 20, 2008
High Plains Drifter wrote on Oct 20, 2008 7:00 AM:" Good thing they weren't released in Galesville.......the city council woulda had a bird. ". Misty038 wrote on Oct 20, 2008 2:40 AM:" Was he planning on charging people to hunt the pigs? He must have thought this would be a huge money maker to go through with hauling all those pigs from Texas. How many pigs do they think are living around there now? ". (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Women charged in theft of 50 TVs Sep 24, 2008
High Plains Drifter wrote on Sep 24, 2008 6:22 AM:" If women had balls,then these two would have brass ones. I give 'em credit for that.If you're gonna do something,do it big instead of breaking into a bank and stealing a couple of rolls of quarters like that bozo in Sparta. ". Rickey wrote on Sep 24, 2008 5:54 AM:" Wal-Mart is a right wing anti-union outfit ,It borhers Me to see something like this...Ha Ha ". (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Three face charges in drive-by shooting Sep 23, 2008
High Plains Drifter wrote on Sep 23, 2008 5:41 AM:" I believe "white,male,American-born" is now the minority. ". wangchung wrote on Sep 23, 2008 5:23 AM:" Let's hope ramona doesn't get a hold of this case, with their "minority" status these scumbags will serve less than a week in jail. " i completely agree. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Clint Eastwood tackles 'Changeling' May 21, 2008
Eastwood met the great Hollywood director back in 1973 when he was shooting "High Plains Drifter" and Capra was in his mid-70s. "He seemed like such a vital guy, his brain cooking on all eight cylinders. You could tell the same story about Billy Wilder, you could go on and on. That could have been such a productive time for them. People have their peak at different times in life." A smile creases his face. (Los Angeles Times)
Clint Eastwood feels 'sorry' for Clinton... May 21, 2008
Clint Eastwood feels 'sorry' for Clinton - Jeffrey Ressner - Politico. Clint Eastwood feels 'sorry' for Clinton. (The Drudge Report)
'The walls are coming down' Nov 23, 2007
This godfather of the graphic novel has always exhibited a cinematic sensibility in his comics, referencing the likes of High Plains Drifter and the Japanese Lone Wolf eries of comics and films. But Miller's influence has itself become apparent on cinema ever since the publication in 1986 of his graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, without which Tim Burton's Batman, and all its moody, superhero-oriented descendants, would most likely never have existed. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Hollywood saddles up as Old West returns Sep 8, 2007
" From the 1930s through the '60s, legendary actors such as John Wayne, ("The Searchers," "Stagecoach"), James Stewart ("Destry Rides Again," "Shenandoah"), Gary Cooper ("High Noon," "The Westerner") and Henry Fonda ("My Darling Clementine," "Fort Apache") made Westerns one of their specialties. Studios churned Westerns out by the dozen, with major directors led by John Ford continually returning to the genre. A new breed of bloody Old West tale emerged in the 1960s and '70s with the Spaghetti... (The Advocate)
In Hollywood, venerable Western rides again Sep 7, 2007
Over the next 20 years, Leones star Clint Eastwood, who rose to fame on the TV Western Rawhide, almost single-handedly kept the Western alive with such films as High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales and his masterpiece of the genre, the 1992 Academy Award best-picture winner Unforgiven. . (MSNBC -- News)
Television movies for the week of August 26 Aug 26, 2007
TV Movies: August 26-September 1. G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Guns blaze in 'El Topo';part of ... May 10, 2007
98), assembling the allegorical oater High Plains Drifter (1973) something of an "El Topo" Lite along with Joe Kidd (1972) and Don Siegel's Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970), co-starring Shirley MacLaine as an unusual nun. Elsewhere in a busy week for reissued classics, Sony Pictures goes the extras-enhanced collector's edition route with an eclectic quartet Humphrey Bogart in Edward Dmytryk's excellent 1954 Herman Wouk adaptation The Caine Mutiny ($24. (Washington Times, DC)
Answers In Game Show Of Love Feb 23, 2007
(I, too, was a teenage TV quizzee, yet this movie resembles my life about as much as "High Plains Drifter" did. Where were my groupies. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Crime and punishment Feb 17, 2007
Imagine, if you will, The Wicker Man and High Plains Drifter forming a loose alliance with The League of Gentlemen, Midsomer Murders and Heartbeat; then stir in a whole bunch of action movies featuring maverick cops or feds. You have to admire the nerve, even if the comedy doesn't hit as many true notes as the first film did. (Independent)
Change is as good as arrest Feb 12, 2007
Hot Fuzz gives it a modern twist by bringing on the firepower and doffing its cap to the kind of back-from-the-dead avenging angels that Clint Eastwood played in High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider. When Pegg comes riding down a silent village street armed to the teeth and ready for death you fear genre spoofing may have reached its limits. (Scotsman)
The Last Cowboy Feb 3, 2007
The festival kicks off with a showing of Eastwood's breakout role as the nameless stranger in A Fistful of Dollars, then follows the mysterious Western character he defined in High Plains Drifter (the first Western he directed) and Pale Rider ... "He has a little bit of a laconic style, sort of in the mold of Gary Cooper. (Part of it was) the first films he was in, these cheap Italian spaghetti Westerns that were considered junk. We look at those (Italian director Sergio) Leone films now and... (Hopewell Valley News, NJ)
