Clint Eastwood really found the Battle of Iwo Jima interesting. While preparing the movie Flags of Our Fathers, focusing on the effect of the grueling battle and its aftermath on the American ...

This one act of kindness in the midst of utter madness brings the two clashing sides together, uniting the opposing forces in their common humanity. The acting in “Letters from Iwo Jima” was ...

It's a shame that the two parts were released separately, but they will make one heck of a DVD box set for any Clint Eastwood fan or World War II buff. Last Word: Letters from Iwo Jima is a ...

Clint Eastwood's "Letters From Iwo Jima" was supposed to be a tag-on coda to his World War II epic, "Flags of Our Fathers." But it's received a much better critical reception than its predecessor ...

Last fall, amidst a wave of Oscar-attracting hype, the first of Clint Eastwood’s two movies dealing with the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers, arrived in cinemas. Flags was ...

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 ...

With two movies shot back to back, and Flags of Our Fathers coming out in October before quickly being followed by Letters from Iwo Jima, to see how Eastwood addressed the Japanese perspective of ...

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 ...

He got it right the second time. Clint Eastwood's latest pass at the battle of Iwo Jima is the brilliant and heart-rending masterwork that the first one might have been: a brave, assured war film ...

Letters From Iwo Jima ... but two of the top Japanese officers depicted here had spent time in the U.S. before the war, liked the country and had friends there.

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 second installment in Clint ...

The second of Clint Eastwood’s two Iwo Jima themed movies, Letters from Iwo Jima retells the battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective. The first, Flags of our Fathers told the story as ...