Ep. 54 Eastwood Double Feature
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Ep. 54 Eastwood Double Feature

1:42:15 Jul 19, 2025
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For Clint Eastwood’s 90th birthday, hosts Christopher Funderburg and John Cribbs have each selected one of the actor/director’s films to discuss. This Eastwood Double Feature looks at Don Siegel’s The Beguiled and Eastwood’s own Unforgiven, a pair of films that illustrate why the star-auteur achieved his iconic status while remaining hard to pin down as an artist. The intense hothouse sexual politics of The Beguiled and the irony-soaked destruction (and rebuilding) of myths found in Unforgiven serve as a jumping off point to exploring Eastwood’s cinematic legacy, philosophies and elusive politics. It’s an unflinching discussion of one of cinema’s most towering, embattled, and controversial figures. The Pink Smoke site:? www.thepinksmoke.com Patreon: ?www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke The Pink Smoke on Twitter: ?twitter.com/thepinksmoke John Cribbs on Twitter: ?twitter.com/TheLastMachine Christopher Funderburg on Twitter: ?twitter.com/CFunderburg Intro & outro music by Marcus Pinn of Pinnland Empire.
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