Rather than scraping Fathers, Clint felt lucky enough to make Letters from Iwo Jima at roughly the same time. War is hell. Every war movie made in the last twenty years seems dead set on driving ...

Both “Flags of our Fathers” and “Letters from Iwo Jima,” Clint Eastwood’s elegant pair of World War II dramas, end on a wordless, haunting note: “Flags” concludes with the sound of a ...

Clint Eastwood conceived Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima as companion pieces, telling the same story — the 1945 battle of Iwo Jima — from opposing (American and Japanese ...

Letters from Iwo Jima promptly earns a place as one of the best movies about World War II, and it confirms Clint Eastwood's place as one of the greatest American film directors ever. I am not ...

Lee, wrote about it in one of hundreds of love letters he exchanged with his wife ... days before the first wave of Marines landed at Iwo Jima. A month after the battle ended, he wrote, "You ...

Letters From Iwo Jima Something rare in the history of war movies -- a case of a filmmaker from one country sympathetically telling a combat story from the perspective of a former enemy. The ...

It's hard to explain exactly why Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima is so much better than its companion World War II film Flags Of Our Fathers, except to say that Flags tries too hard to ...

Letters from Iwo Jima is the companion film to Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers, and tells the story of the battle for the island of Iwo Jima during the Second World War. General Kuribayashi (Ken ...