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	<title>RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers, Reviews and More &#187; Letters from Iwo Jima</title>
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		<title>Clint Eastwood Tells Spike Lee to &#039;Shut His Face&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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At the Cannes Film Festival Spike Lee called out Clint Eastwood and his films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima saying:

&#034;There were many African-Americans who survived that war and who were upset at Clint for not having one [in the films]. That was his version: the negro soldier did not exist. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spike Lee Condemns Clint Eastwood&#039;s &#039;Iwo Jima&#039; For Its Absence of Black Soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 17:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting argument was brought forward (and ignored) at the Cannes Film Festival by director Spike Lee as the Times Online brings us news that in a press conference Lee brought up the fact that black soldiers were conspicuous by their absence from Clint Eastwood&#039;s Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima.

Lee is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastwood&#039;s &#039;Iwo Jima&#039; Takes Board of Review Top Honors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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The National Board of Review has published its kudos for 2006 and at the top of the list is the soon to be released Clint Eastwood follow-up to the dreadful Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, which hits theaters on December 20.

Granted, this throws a wild wrench into the Oscar framework as this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watanabe Looks to the &#039;Red Sun&#039;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Brevet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Variety is reporting that Clint Eastwood&#039;s companion piece to his World War II drama Flags of Our Fathers is moving forward as Ken Watanabe joins the cast of Red Sun, Black Sand.

The film is described as &#034;the Japanese companion piece&#034; to Flags of Our Fathers the film will look at the same period in time [...]]]></description>
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