Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story

Richard Schickel

Exploring Clint Eastwood's style of direction, this documentary highlights the more than 40 films that Clint Eastwood has made over a truly magnificent career. Told from the firsthand perspective of other legendary filmmakers and stars, interviews include Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Gene Hackman, Tommy Lee Jones, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Hilary Swank, and Brian Grazer among others.


You Must Remember This

Richard Schickel

The power and the stories. The trends and trendsetters. The mirror that reflects our life and times. It's Rick sticking his neck out for nobody. Superman rescuing Lois Lane. Bette Davis pumping lead into the man she loves. George Clooney masterminding a Vegas heist. Harry Potter wielding his powers. You must remember these....Clint Eastwood narrates Richard Schickel's perceptive five-episode, 85th-anniversary salute to the studio that gained a four-footed hold with an unlikely star (Rin Tin Tin), championed tough guys and dames who gave the Depression and the Nazis the raspberry, countered the box-office onslaught of TV and emerged as a 21st-century giant. Art, business, stars, moneymen, America - it's an enthralling tale. And it's all here.


The Eastwood Factor (Extended Version)

Richard Schickel

Back in 1975, legendary actor and director Clint Eastwood opened up offices for his new production company, Malpaso, on the Warner Bros. lot. Over the next 35 years, he acted, directed and produced 35 movies for the studio, including his most recent, "Invictus." To celebrate this milestone, and Eastwood's 80th birthday, noted film documentarian and Emmy Award-nominee Richard Schickel ("You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story," "Eastwood on Eastwood") uses his personal relationship with Eastwood to explore Eastwood's personal drive and passion for film, and examine his long-standing relationship with Warner Bros. Featuring clips from 11 of Eastwood's best films, including Academy Award-winners "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby," this documentary is a "must-see" for Eastwood lovers, fans of Warner Bros., and film historians alike!


Ask the Dust

Robert Towne

Colin Farrell is Arturo Bandini, a young would-be writer who comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself. While there, he meets beautiful barmaid Camilla (Salma Hayek), a Mexican immigrant who hopes for a better life by marrying a wealthy American. Both are trying to escape the stigma of their ethnicity in blue-blood California. The passion that arises between them is palpable – if they could only set aside their ambitions and submit to it. Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Towne (Chinatown) directs this outcasts’ tale of desire in the desert, co-starring Donald Sutherland (Pride and Prejudice).