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Is there any precedent at all for a major director remaining active and capable into his mid-90s? Hell - is there any precedent for *anyone* performing at the level Eastwood still performs, at anything, into their mid-90s? It's truly remarkable, and as much as all coverage of his new movies always mentions his age, I think we've gotten inured to the "Clint's getting old" narrative---but there's "old for 'Dirty Harry'", "old to be making movies", and then there's "94". It's amazing.

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Manoel de Oliveira made films from the 1930s to the 2010s; Gebo and the Shadow came out when he was 104

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Yeah it's bonkers. Ridley Scott's getting up there too though and the scale of his movies dwarf Eastwood's. Curious to see how long he's going to keep at it although I suspect he's got other people handling a good deal of the production headaches.

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I think about SPACE COWBOYS, an okay film but one in which Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, and James Garner were test pilots everyone thought were already too old to be worth anything. And that was damn near a quarter-century ago!

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It movie equivalent of Rolling Stones going on "Steel Wheelchairs" tour 30 years ago.

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"Clint is too old for this shit" was a theme of really a *lot* of his acting career - it was a bit of a frog-in-a-pot-of-boiling-water situation where that piece morphed from being a thoughtful criticism of how certain types of machismo don't age well into being "he's old, ha ha old".

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Frederick Wiseman's still kicking pretty hard...

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