White Hunter, Black Heart PG
An adventure in obsession...
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 1, 2010
- Originally Released: 1990
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Clint Eastwood & Jeff Fahey | |
Performer: | Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson & George Dzundza | |
Directed by | Clint Eastwood | |
Edited by | Joel Cox | |
Produced by | Clint Eastwood |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
An ambitious and intriguing project that never amounts to anything more than the sum of its parts--a trait shared by many of Eastwood's other major project as an independent filmmaker, Bird.
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TV Guide
Eastwood's subject is wasted lives and wasted talent; Wilson's charisma and Hollywood's money prove irresistible, and their sheer power brings noteworthy results-but they emerge from a needless vortex of ruin.
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New Yorker
It's as if White Hunter, Black Heart had opened up the gap that exists in any Huston film between the playful surfaces and the depths beneath.
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Sight and Sound
This material marks a gutsy, fascinating departure for Mr. Eastwood, and makes it clear that his directorial ambitions have by now outstripped his goals as an actor.
New York Times
...A gutsy, fascinating departure for [Eastwood]....A film as brave as it is improbable...
New York Times
...[A] provocative and entertaining film...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 4/5 --
Clint Eastwood raises hell and finds his heart of darkness.
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eFilmCritic.com
Product Description:
When John Huston left for Africa to shoot THE AFRICAN QUEEN, he asked his friend, writer Peter Viertel, to come along with him, ostensibly to help him polish James Agee's script. Eventually, Viertel wrote a fictionalized account of his experience with Huston in Africa, WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART. Almost 30 years later, Clint Eastwood made a film of that novel. Eastwood plays director John Wilson, a man clearly modeled after Huston. Wilson is a gregarious and tremendously engaging character, very different from the strong, silent image of Eastwood his fans have grown to know. At the same time, like many of Clint's characters, Wilson is a man who lives by his own rules. He goes to Africa, far more interested in shooting an elephant on safari than in shooting his movie. His real obsession seems to be his image of himself as a man of action. Wilson is a rascal, somewhat admirable in his ideals, but he's also selfish, stubborn, and irresponsible. Eventually, his pursuit leads to tragedy in Eastwood's most scathing and powerful critique of the macho image he himself has built a career on. It's perhaps the most complex and compelling work Eastwood has done as an actor.
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- Sales Rank: 132,614
- UPC: 883929107964
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