Country: USA
Year: 2003
Duration: 90


Clint Eastwood investigates piano blues, using rare documents, interviews and performances by famous professional blues musicians.
The film is part of the series The Blues, which was created and coordinated by Martin Scorsese in celebration of the year of the blues. Other episodes were directed by Charles Burnett, Marc Levin, Mike Figgis, Wim Wenders, Richard Pearce and Martin Scorsese.

"The blues have always played a fundamental part in my life and I have always been particularly fond of the piano ever since my mother started bringing home records by Fats Waller. Music has also played an important part in my films. A documentary about piano blues gives me the opportunity of making a film that is tied more directly to music than all the other films I have made in my career" (C. Eastwood).

Biography

film director

Clint Eastwood

(San Francisco, CA, USA, 1930) became famous with Sergio Leone’s westerns and in 1971 he made his directorial debut with Play Misty for Me. In the following years he played the part of the inspector Callahan and continued to make westerns and films of other genres such as the biographical Bird (1988). In 1992 he won four Academy Awards with The Unforgiven and later imposed himself as a great contemporary director with works such as Absolute Power (1997), Mystic River (2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), with which he won the second Academy Award for Best Director and for the Best Film. In 2015 he returned to receive six nominations from the Academy for American Sniper. In 2016 Sully had its Italian premiere at the Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Play Misty for Me (Brivido nella notte, 1971), High Plains Drifter (Lo straniero senza nome, 1973), Breezy (1973), The Eiger Sanction (Assassinio sull'Eiger, 1975), The Outlaw Josey Wales (Il texano dagli occhi di ghiaccio, 1976), The Gauntlet (L'uomo nel mirino, 1977), Bronco Billy (id., 1980), Firefox (Firefox - Volpe di fuoco, 1982), Honkytonk Man (id., 1983), Sudden Impact (Coraggio… fatti ammazzare, 1983), Tightrope (Corda tesa, 1984), Pale Rider (Il cavaliere pallido, 1985), Gunny (id., 1986), Bird (id., 1988), White Hunter Black Heart (Cacciatore bianco, cuore nero, 199o), The Rookie (La recluta, 1990), Unforgiven (Gli spietati, 1992), A Perfect World (Un mondo perfetto, 1993), The Bridges of Madison County (I ponti di Madison County, 1995), Absolute Power (Potere assoluto, 1997), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Mezzanotte nel giardino del bene e del male, 1997), True Crime (Fino a prova a contraria, 1999), Space Cowboys (id., 2000), Blood Work (Debito di sangue, 2002), Mystic River (id., 2003), The Blues (id., doc, 2003), Million Dollar Baby (id., 2004), Flags of Our Fathers (id., 2006), Letters from Ivo Jima (Lettere da Iwo Jima, 2016), Changeling (id., 2008), Gran Torino (id., 2008), Invictus (Invictus - L’invincibile, 2009), Hereafter (id., 2010), J. Edgar (id., 2011), Jersey Boys (id., 2014), American Sniper (id., 2014), Sully (id., 2016), The 15:17 to Paris (Ore 15:17 - Attacco al treno, 2018), The Mule (Il corriere - The Mule, 2018), Richard Jewell (2019), Cry Macho (2021).  

Cast

& Credits

Regia/Director: Clint Eastwood
Soggetto/Story, Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Peter Guralnik
Fotografia/Director of photography: Vic Losick
Scenografia/Set designCostumi/Costumes designMontaggio/EditingJoel Cox
Musica/MusicSuono/Sound:
Musicisti e interpreti/Cast and musicians: Marcia Bell, Dave Brubeck, Ray Charles, Jay McShann, Pinetop Perkins
Produttore/Producer: Bruce Ricker, Susan Motamed
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