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Eastwood’s nod Actor, producer, director Clint Eastwood will be at the third annual Maui Film Festival at Wailea next month to accept the 2002 Silversword Award, the event's top honor.
makes Maui’s day
The star/director will accept
an award at next month's
Maui Film FestivalTHE SCHEDULE
By tim ryan
tryan@starbulletin.comEastwood will also be the subject of an open-to-the-public interview with entertainment reporter Joel Siegel from 5 to 7 p.m. June 14 at the Grand Wailea Resort. The event runs from June 12 to 16.
Eastwood, 72, is being honored for his numerous contributions to "the art and soul of filmmaking," said an ecstatic Barry Rivers, the festival's founder and director.
"No matter the theme in his films, Clint Eastwood always held the moral high ground. His body of work is phenomenal."
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It also catapults the Maui Film Festival to a higher level of prestige in drawing Eastwood -- known to shy from the public eye when he is not working -- to accept the award at the well-attended event.The festival's first Silversword winner was director Tim Burton; last year, the honor went to the Earth Communication Office of Santa Monica, Calif.
Festival officials also are pursuing an actor, most likely the co-star of a prominent Eastwood film, to present the award, but that deal hasn't been finalized.
Eastwood, who lives in Carmel, is a frequent visitor to Maui, where he has just built a home. His wife, Dina Ruiz, will attend the festival with him.
Eastwood got his first acting role in the television show "Rawhide" while visiting a friend at the CBS lot, where a studio exec noticed he looked like a cowboy.
THE TALL, squint-eyed star of more than 80 spaghetti westerns and cop thrillers ended up directing several art movies in a career that has consistently confounded expectations.
He moved to Hollywood in 1955, wrangling a contract at Universal, playing bit parts that year in "Francis in the Navy," "Tarantula" and "Revenge of the Creature." In 1959 he signed to star in the TV series "Rawhide," which kept him busy for the next six years.
On hiatus in 1964, Eastwood flew to Italy to star in the western "A Fistful of Dollars," which was a huge success. He went back the next summer to film "For a Few Dollars More," and again for "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." All three were released in the United States in 1966, and "The Man With No Name," as his character was billed, suddenly found himself atop the box-office charts.
In 1968 he began his collaboration with director Don Siegel that resulted in such distinctive films as "Coogan's Bluff" (1968), "Two Mules for Sister Sara" (1970), "The Beguiled" and "Dirty Harry" (both 1971), which spawned four sequels. These films invented the loose-cannon cop genre and gave Eastwood his most memorable screen character.
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Eastwood made his directorial debut in 1971 with the chiller "Play Misty for Me," and has continued to direct ever since. He also set up his own production company, Malpaso, and for the next 15 years churned out several hits, alternating action films with offbeat comedies. They included "High Plains Drifter" (1973), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "The Gauntlet" (1977), "Every Which Way but Loose" (1978), "Escape from Alcatraz" (1979), "Pale Rider" (1985) and "Heartbreak Ridge" (1986).Eastwood directed "Bird" (1988), starred in and directed "White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990, playing a film director modeled after John Huston) and assumed the same chores on "The Rookie" (1991) with Charlie Sheen.
Eastwood's "Unforgiven" (1992), a revisionist western, won him Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.
In 1993, Eastwood appeared in someone else's movie for the first time in years, as an aging Secret Service agent in "In the Line of Fire."
In 1995, Eastwood won the Academy's Irving Thalberg award, then directed and acted opposite Meryl Streep in "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995). He has also served as mayor of his hometown of Carmel, Calif.
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Here are the films that will screen during the Maui Film Festival, with show times subject to change. Ticket prices start at $10 for single tickets or $50 for festival passes. Call (808)579-9244 on Maui or toll-free (888)999-6330. Or go online at www.mauifilmfestival.com. THE SCHEDULE
June 12
>> "Ski Bums": Ten free spirits offer a glimpse of extreme skiing; 6 p.m. at Castle Theater.>> "Tadpole": A sensitive teenager sets his heart on his stepmom (Sigourney Weaver); 8 p.m., Celestial Cinema.
>> "Strapped: The Origins of Big-Wave Surfing": A visual history of tow-in wave-riding; 8 p.m., Castle.
June 13
>> "The Chateau": Two American boys inherit a French chateau. With it comes hilarious culture-clashes and serious responsibilities; 5 p.m., Castle.>> "The Shaman's Apprentice": An ethnobotanist searches Amazon rain forests to find medicinal plants; 5 p.m., McCoy Theater. Repeats 2 p.m. June 15.
>> "Sounds Sacred": An essay about sounds that make the spirit soar, with commentary by Deepak Chopra. Precedes "The Shaman's Appentice," 5 p.m., McCoy.
>> "A Shot at Glory": Robert Duvall manages a Highlands team that challenges the Glagow Rangers; 7:30 p.m., Castle.
>> "Ram Dass": Biography of the spiritual explorer shows him learning about life and death after a stroke; 7:30 p.m., McCoy. Repeats 5 p.m. June 16.
>> "Mostly Martha": A chef's orderly life turns upside down when her 8-year-old niece arrives; 8 p.m., Celestial Cinema.
>> "Searching for Debra Winger": Rosanna Arquette gets Jane Fonda, Sharon Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow, and other actresseses to talk career nitty-gritty; 10 p.m., Celestial Cinema.
>> "La Tropical": Behind the scenes in a Havana nightclub; 8 p.m., Maui Digital Skydome. Also, 7:30 p.m. June 15, McCoy.
>> "The Return of Draw Egan": In a 1916 silent, a former outlaw is appointed sheriff and is law-abiding until a buddy shows up; 11 p.m., SandDance.
June 14
>> "The Perfect You": Jenny McCarthy and Chris Eigeman play a TV news reporter and writer who despise each other, then fall in love; 2 p.m., Castle.>> "Young Love": Bittersweet Finnish story of a 13-year-old boy who photographs the older girl next door and enters her photos in beauty contest without her knowing; 5 p.m., Castle.
>> "Resin": A nobody sells weed and finds himself fighting "justice." Photographed verite style with digicams; 5 p.m., McCoy. Repeats 9:30 p.m. June 15.
>> "Green Dragon": Patrick Swayze and Forest Whitaker star in stories about Vietnamese refugees in U.S. camps circa 1975; 7:30 p.m., Castle.
>> "The Power of Truth": A visit with the Dalai Lama; 7:30 p.m., McCoy. Repeats 2 p.m. June 16, McCoy.
>> "The Good Girl": Jennifer Aniston plays a woman who finds crime gives her more passion than her dull marriage and job; 8 p.m., Celestial Cinema.
>> "Pleasure & Pain": Documentary captures musician Ben Harper on tour; 8 p.m., Maui Digital Skydome.
>> "The Photographer": Max Martin goes on a Wizard-of-Oz-like trek through New York City in search of 10 images to save his career; 9:30 p.m., Castle.
>> "The Tantric Journal": Two women travel to southern India to learn ancient secrets of Tantra; 9:30 p.m., McCoy.
>> "Unforgiven": Clint Eastwood's 1992 tale about over-the-hill gunslingers (Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris) won four Academy Awards, including best picture. This is Eastwood's own print; 10 p.m., Celestial Cinema.
>> "The Son of the Sheik": Rudolph Valentino (his last film) plays the sheik and the son who falls in love with a dangerous dancing girl in this 1926 silent film; 11 p.m., SandDance.
June 15
>> "Cinema Paradiso": Director's cut adds 51 minutes to the 1989 Foreign Language Academy Award winner; 10 p.m., Celestial Cinema.>> "The Last Kiss": A pregnancy sets off romantic upheaval in this Italian comedy; 2 p.m., Castle.
>> "Lovely and Amazing": Brenda Blethyn is the mother of two grown daughters, all facing crises; 5 p.m., Castle.
>> "Cherish": Robin Tunney plays a shy dotcomer who falls for her parole officer as a stalker closes in; 7:30 p.m., Castle.
>> "Laird": Documentary on surfer Laird Hamilton. Plays with "Strapped" and "Ski Bums," 8 p.m., Maui Digital Skydome.
>> "Bug": Silverlake residents are linked in a common destiny; 9:30 p.m., Castle.
>> "Show People": Marion Davies stars in a 1928 silent Hollywood lampoon with cameos by Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks; 11 p.m., SandDance.
June 16
>> "Virginia's Run": Virginia defies her dad (Gabriel Byrne) with secret night rides on her beloved steed; noon, Castle.>> "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys": Kieran Culkin plays a Catholic-school teen who creates rebellious comics. Jodie Foster plays a nun; 5 p.m., Castle.
>> "The Business of Fancydancing": An American Indian poet's fame alienates him from the rez -- to which he returns for a funeral; 7:30 p.m., Castle.
>> "Ultimate Surf": Documentary look at surfing Jaws' monster waves; 7:30 p.m., McCoy.
>> "Igby Goes Down": Kieran Culkin plays Igby, who runs from his old-money family (Susan Sarandon and Jeff Goldblum); 8 p.m., Celestial Cinema.
>> "Sherpa: Unsung Heroes": Documentary on the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute; 8 p.m., Maui Digital Skydome.
>> "The Man Who Sued God": Australian courtroom drama pits insurance companies against the church; 10 p.m., Celestial Cinema.
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