Producer · Actor · Director · 1930

Clint Eastwood

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Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

Charlotte Zwerin · 1988

Charlotte Zwerin’s 1988 documentary assembles rediscovered 1967 footage of Thelonious Monk in performance, rehearsal, and daily life, supplemented by interviews with collaborators and family. Produced by Clint Eastwood’s Malpaso Productions, it avoids narration and chronology in favour of sustained, intimate observation — capturing Monk’s physicality, discipline, and reserve with unprecedented fidelity. Selected for the National Film Registry in 2017, it remains the definitive visual record of the pianist at work.

13:00

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Sergio Leone · 1966

Sergio Leone's 1966 close to the Dollars Trilogy follows a bounty hunter, an outlaw and a hired gun across the American Civil War as they hunt buried Confederate gold, shot in Techniscope across Spain on a $1.2 million budget that returned nearly $39 million, built around Eli Wallach's performance and Ennio Morricone's score.

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Unforgiven

Clint Eastwood · 1992

Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven follows a widowed farmer and reformed killer pulled back into one last bounty job, made on a $14.4 million budget that returned over $101 million and won four Academy Awards including Best Picture, with Gene Hackman's affable, brutal sheriff as its centre of gravity.