Currently in production in the Boston area on an adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel Mystic River, the actor-director Clint Eastwood has spent the past thirty years working behind the camera. While he came of age as a filmmaker with the generation of New Hollywood auteurs, Eastwood represents a very different achievement in his singular conjoining of the legacy of Hollywood professionalism with an independent cinema. We acknowledge his current production with this retrospective survey drawn from the HFA collection.