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This movie is going to be up for a lot of awards, and rightfully so. It was wonderfully written (aside from the goofily absurd amount of racial slurs—more on that in a moment), brilliantly directed, and excellently acted. Except for one minor problem. Clint should hang up his acting hat and stick to directing. You gotta love the man playing a bad ass character at his age. And it actually worked, his age wasn't a problem. It's just that he's been doing "Clint" for so long that his acting comes out as over-baked. When he's growling his lines it's hard not to laugh when a laugh isn't intended because he's more like a cartoon character bully than an actual racist Michigan retiree.

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We'll probably feature this again in tomorrow's CinePhillyist column, but we wanted to give it a quick mention today because it starts tonight: it's the International House's three-day double feature program, Beyond Leone – Lost Spaghetti Western Classics! "Spaghetti Western" is a term used to describe the series of low-budget Westerns shot in other countries - usually Italy - during the '60s and '70s. The most popular and well known entries in the genre are probably the Man with No Name Trilogy, starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone (that's A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, all excellent films). But the I-House's program is something really special: a double feature each night, tonight through Saturday night, of really rare, hard-to-find Spaghetti Westerns. Tonight's screening, for instance, includes Quentin Tarantino's personal print of Day of Anger, which stars genre veterans Lee Van Cleef and Guiliano Gemma as an experienced gunfighter and an outcast orphan, respectively. Friday, meanwhile, features two films with the famous Spaghetti Western character Sartana as the main character, including the original Sartana film, If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death, as well as a cross-over film where Sartana meets another famous genre character: Django Challenges Sartana (like most superhero cross-over stories, this one starts with the legendary gunmen at each other's throats, but ends with them working together to beat the real bad guys). Finally, Saturday will see a screening of a Magnificent Seven rip-off called Five Man Army, co-written by infamous horror director Dario Argento, with a score by the great Ennio Morricone, and starring Peter Graves, Tetsuro Tamba and Bud Spencer. The last film is screening under the name They Call Me Hallelujah, but we don't know why, because its alternate title is one of the best movie titles we've ever heard: Heads You Die, Tails I Kill You.

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When I heard about Clint Eastwood's latest film project - to create two different movies about the Battle of Iwo Jima, one from the American perspective (Flags of Our Fathers), and one from the Japanese perspective (Letters from Iwo Jima) - I was very intrigued. Because, first of all, I like Clint Eastwood. I've liked him since seeing him first as an actor in old Spaghetti Westerns, and I only liked him more when I saw his incredible work as a director. I also tend to like WWII films - really, in my opinion, it's hard to make a bad WWII film. The subject is so ripe for incredible stories, moving drama, and breathtaking action. And indeed, Eastwood has not made a bad one - although he has also not made a truly great one.

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