70s Bikes, Trucks and Hairy friends

I thought it would be nice to finish off the month of February with a 1970s flashback. These great photos were taken at Clint's Carmel, timber beach house or nearby in the surrounding woodland.  

Prepare to get saddle sore - An Eastwood Fest at the NFT

‘A lifetime in movies is the same as a lifetime in any profession: you are constantly a student’

 Clint Eastwood

With a huge body of work as an actor and director, Clint Eastwood turns 90 in May and we mark the occasion with this bijou season featuring some iconic yet sometimes morally ambiguous roles. Whether it be a ‘dirty’ cop who challenges how far a democratic society should go to protect itself, a bounty hunter who uses the ruthless methods of the criminals he hunts against them, or a war veteran who finds himself either caught up in a gang war or working for a drugs cartel, Eastwood is able to hold his own as an anti-hero. Having learned his directing craft from being on set with some of the very best, Eastwood creates films that are always challenging, powerful and traditionally accomplished pictures. For a full list of movies being show, check out the list below.

Clint Eastwood: Loner, Lover, Star Tuesday 31 March 2020 18:15 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

A richly illustrated series of presentations about Eastwood’s image and star persona.

In a richly illustrated group of presentations, film scholars Lucy Bolton, Hannah Hamad and Julie Lobalzo Wright will examine Clint Eastwood’s star persona. Join us for an insightful discussion on how physicality influenced his image, his particular brand of masculinity, and his complex relationship to female characters throughout different phases of his career.

The Mule Wednesday 29 April 2020 18:15 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Dirty Harry Monday 30 March 2020 20:50 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Tightrope Tuesday 31 March 2020 20:20 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

A Fistful of Dollars Tuesday 31 March 2020 20:40 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Unforgiven Wednesday 01 April 2020 20:30 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Mule Thursday 02 April 2020 18:20 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

A Fistful of Dollars Friday 03 April 2020 18:15 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Enforcer Saturday 04 April 2020 18:10 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

A Fistful of Dollars Sunday 05 April 2020 13:50 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Tightrope Friday 10 April 2020 18:00 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Unforgiven Saturday 11 April 2020 18:00 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Dirty Harry Sunday 12 April 2020 14:30NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Enforcer Sunday 12 April 2020 20:15 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Gran Torino Monday 13 April 2020 17:30 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Tightrope Thursday 16 April 2020 20:50 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Unforgiven Monday 20 April 2020 18:10 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Mule Tuesday 21 April 2020 20:40 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

A Fistful of Dollars Saturday 25 April 2020 13:50 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Gran Torino Tuesday 28 April 2020 20:40 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Dirty Harry Thursday 30 April 2020 18:20 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

For a Few Dollars More Monday 30 March 2020 18:05 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

A Fistful of Dollars Relaxed Screening: Monday 30 March 2020 18:15 Studio General Admission On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Escape from Alcatraz Wednesday 01 April 2020 18:10 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Thursday 02 April 2020 14:00 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Magnum Force Thursday 02 April 2020 20:35 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Friday 03 April 2020 14:30 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Friday 03 April 2020 18:10 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Friday 03 April 2020 20:25 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Saturday 04 April 2020 15:10 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Saturday 04 April 2020 18:00 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Saturday 04 April 2020 20:20 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Sunday 05 April 2020 14:15 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

For a Few Dollars More Sunday 05 April 2020 16:00 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Sunday 05 April 2020 16:50 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Sunday 05 April 2020 19:00 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Sunday 05 April 2020 19:45 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Monday 06 April 2020 18:10 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Monday 06 April 2020 20:15 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Tuesday 07 April 2020 14:30 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Tuesday 07 April 2020 18:10 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Escape from Alcatraz Tuesday 07 April 2020 18:20 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Tuesday 07 April 2020 20:30 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Wednesday 08 April 2020 14:30 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Wednesday 08 April 2020 18:05 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Wednesday 08 April 2020 20:25 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Thursday 09 April 2020 18:10 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Thursday 09 April 2020 20:20 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Friday 10 April 2020 14:30 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Friday 10 April 2020 18:10 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Friday 10 April 2020 20:20 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

White Hunter, Black Heart Friday 10 April 2020 20:35 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Saturday 11 April 2020 15:20 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Saturday 11 April 2020 18:05 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Saturday 11 April 2020 20:25 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Sunday 12 April 2020 14:00 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Sunday 12 April 2020 17:00 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Magnum Force Sunday 12 April 2020 17:15 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Sunday 12 April 2020 19:45 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Pale Rider Monday 13 April 2020 14:35 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Monday 13 April 2020 14:40 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Monday 13 April 2020 17:00 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Monday 13 April 2020 19:50 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Tuesday 14 April 2020 17:45 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Tuesday 14 April 2020 20:25 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Wednesday 15 April 2020 18:10 Studio On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Wednesday 15 April 2020 20:25 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Thursday 16 April 2020 18:05 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Outlaw Josey Wales Thursday 16 April 2020 20:25 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

For a Few Dollars More Saturday 25 April 2020 16:15 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Saturday 25 April 2020 19:30 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Pale Rider Sunday 26 April 2020 17:50 NFT1 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

White Hunter, Black Heart Monday 27 April 2020 18:10 NFT2 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Escape from Alcatraz Wednesday 29 April 2020 20:30 NFT3 On sale 10-03-2020 11:30 am

Clint Eastwood Says Electing Michael Bloomberg Is "the Best Thing We Could Do"

'The Mule' actor also said he wished President Trump acted "in a more genteel way" and stopped "calling people names." by Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter..Seemingly undeterred by the withering reviews out of the former New York City mayor's first appearance at a Democratic debate, Clint Eastwood is expressing some early support for Michael Bloomberg for president.

Asked about his views on President Donald Trump and the current political scene in a new interview with The Wall Street Journal, The Mule actor and self-professed libertarian said "The politics has gotten so ornery.” While he said he agrees with “certain things that Trump’s done," he added that he wished the president acted “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names. I would personally like for him to not bring himself to that level."

He then told the reporter, "The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there."

Eastwood, who has historically leaned conservative on the political spectrum, famously criticized former President Barack Obama and once served as the Republican mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea between 1986 and 1988. During a speech in August 2016, he appeared to express his plans to vote for Trump, saying, "I’d have to go for Trump… you know, ’cause [Hillary’s] declared that she’s gonna follow in Obama’s footsteps.”

Above: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg 2006 National Board of Review awards, Best Film – Letters from Iwo Jima

The actor-director also took the opportunity of his latest interview to clarify his position on a controversy over the depiction of a female journalist in his latest film, The Ballad of Richard Jewell. In the film, written by Billy Ray and based off of a Vanity Fair story by Marie Brenner and book by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen, Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs is portrayed as having exchanged sex for the name of a bomb suspect (Jewell, who was falsely accused) with an FBI agent. The AJC has publicly denied that this portrayal contains any truth; Scruggs died in 2001.

Eastwood told the WSJ that the AJC was "ultimately responsible" for Jewell's early death at age 44 in 2007 (Jewell died due to heart failure after complications from diabetes). He added of the film's portrayal of Scruggs, “Well, she hung out at a little bar in town, where mostly police officers went. And she had a boyfriend that was a police officer. Well, we just changed it in the story. We made it a federal police officer instead of a local."

Actor Olivia Wilde, who portrayed Scruggs in the film, said of her role to The Hollywood Reporter in December: "I have an immense amount of respect for Kathy Scruggs." She added, "She’s no longer with us, she died very young, and I feel a certain responsibility to defend her legacy — which has now been, I think unfairly, boiled down to one element of her personality, one inferred moment in the film."

As for AJC's fierce rebukes of the portrayal of Scruggs in the film, Eastwood said the publication was working to erase its "guilt" due to a "reckless story" naming Jewell. He added that he wished Warner Bros., which produced the film, had told AJC to "go screw themselves."