White Hunter Black Heart
Hard-living, macho movie director John Wilson arrives in 1950s Zimbabwe to prepare for his next film. There he desires to film the process of hunting down an animal but it turns out that hunting is more interesting than filming.
3 October 1957, UK
15 February 1947, New York City, New York, USA
8 June 1939, Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK
27 February 1957, Battersea, London, England, UK
1946, UK
29 April 1945, Kent, England, UK
27 January 1950, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
1947, London, England, UK
17 July 1946, Annfield Plain, County Durham, England, UK
16 September 1906, London, England, UK
2 April 1930, London, England, UK
19 July 1945, Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany
10 February 1945, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
4 October 1953, Hertfordshire, England, UK
29 November 1952, Olean, New York, USA
18 April 1935, West Ham, London, England, UK
14 March 1956, Lincolnshire, England, UK
26 April 1949, Marylebone, London, England, UK
3 June 1957, Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK
6 December 1955, Lambeth, Central London, England, UK
31 May 1930, San Francisco, California, USA
August 25, 2005
A fascinating character study about masculinity and the movies.
January 15, 2005
One of Eastwood's finest achievements.
March 17, 2004
Slow-moving but gently engrossing.
April 09, 2007
Clint Eastwood raises hell and finds his heart of darkness.
January 26, 2006
Ably aided by a fine cast and Jack Green's no-nonsense photography, Eastwood constructs a marvellously pacy, suspenseful movie which is deceptively easy on both eye and ear.
October 27, 2008
An ambitious and intriguing project that never amounts to anything more than the sum of its parts--a trait shared by many of Eastwood's other major project as an independent filmmaker, Bird.
August 30, 2004
This material marks a gutsy, fascinating departure for Mr. Eastwood, and makes it clear that his directorial ambitions have by now outstripped his goals as an actor.
October 27, 2008
Especially for those who have pegged Clint Eastwood too quickly as a masculine traditionalist, White Hunter, Black Heart is a movie to conjure with.
March 16, 2007
Interesting, but a bit pretentious
June 30, 2008
An intelligent, affectionate study of an obsessive American film director...
January 28, 2004
A devastating portrait of self-deceiving obsession, and a notable improvement on Viertel's book in terms of economy and focus.
December 29, 2014
Eastwood's subject is wasted lives and wasted talent; Wilson's charisma and Hollywood's money prove irresistible, and their sheer power brings noteworthy results-but they emerge from a needless vortex of ruin.
