`Letters' puts Eastwood back on Iwo Jima
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If one Clint Eastwood picture does not capture audiences' fancy, another one is never far behind.
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The Clint Eastwood film âLetters From Iwo Jima,â about the lives and deaths of Japanese soldiers in the battle for Iwo Jima in World War II, was named best foreign film at the 31st Japan Academy Awards ceremony on Friday in Tokyo, Variety reported. Joji Matsuokaâs âTokyo Tower: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad,â about a mother-son relationship, took the prizes for best film, best director, best actress (Kiki Kirin as the dying mother), best supporting actor (Kaoru Kobayashi as the absent father) and best screenplay (Masuo Suzuki). Hidetaka Yoshioka, who won the best actor prize in 2006 for his performance as a struggling novelist in âAlways,â won again for reprising the role in the nostalgic drama âAlways 2.â.
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When Alison Eastwood decided to follow  in the footsteps of her famous father Clint and direct a movie,  she got some odd advice from dad.
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Movie scripts and personal letters belonging to the late star Katharine Hepburn are to go on show.
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Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara launched a publicity campaign for a film celebrating the bravery of its wartime "kamikaze" suicide pilots on Friday, as Japan wrangled again with Asian neighbors over its World War Two history.
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Clint Eastwood, that most American of actors and directors, has a film nominated for a best-picture Oscar, "Letters from Iwo Jima," that is in Japanese, a language he doesn't speak, and was shot in Iceland because it looks a lot like Iwo Jima but was cheaper.
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In his first film since the Oscar-winning 'Crash,' Paul Haggis takes on the Iraq warâwith a little help from Tommy Lee Jones
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Paul Verhoeven, best known for Hollywood   hits "Basic instinct" and "Total Recall," has returned to his   native Netherlands with a film challenging the view that the   anti-Nazi resistance there was a movement only for heroes.
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Rambo is coming to get theater audiences this week with Sylvester Stallone back on the big screen as the touch-as-nails Vietnam veteran.
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Fact-based fiction ruled  this year's National Board of Review selections as Clint  Eastwood's Japan-centric World War II drama "Letters From Iwo  Jima" took home best film of the year honors.
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Twenty-four years after its initial release, Samuel Fuller's World War II film has hit the screen in a messy, muscular form close to what he intended.
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Clint Eastwood's upcoming war film  "Letters from Iwo Jima" picked up two critics' awards on  Sunday, four days after a New York-based group gave its top  honor to the Japanese-centric view of World War Two.
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A letter found in Iraq shows that the group sees the war as a boon for its cause.
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French President Jacques Chirac inducted American actor-director Clint Eastwood into the Legion of Honor on Saturday, saying he represents 'the best of Hollywood.' The Oscar-winning director was named a knight ...Comment
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Bob Bolus was flipping through Parade magazine two years ago when he came across an article about Sgt. William H. Genaust, who filmed the raising of the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945.
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The National Archives on Thursday unveiled a handwritten note by Abraham Lincoln exhorting his generals to pursue Robert E. Lee's army after the battle of Gettysburg, underscoring one of the great missed opportunities for an early end to the Civil War.
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Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima wins the first major prize of the film award season, which culminates in the Oscars.