I was thinking they can't possibly just keep on touring every year so I checked out Metallica, and yes you can. They've been on some kind of tour every year since 1983 except for 01-02, 05 and 2020.

If they release 2 songs every year that's going to cover a good few years for them.

I have fond memories of Hannibal. In my country the rating rules are different from America. Sex and nudity is okay but if there is violence the rating becomes equivalent to NC17 pretty fast. This was the first "grown up movie" I could watch at the cinema without feebly lying to the ticket puncher. It was one of those moments which confirmed your status as an adult for the first time.

Movie as I remembered it back then was a bit underwhelming. Not bad, quite good actually, but as you say it couldn't live up to Silence.

Now though I think I prefer it. Hopkins has more to do, Moore's "Clarice" is certainly not worse than Foster's. And of course Ray shines here. Scott is also superior to Demme.

I dare say, watching this on the telly in the hotel room on my last visit to England, it was the most enjoyable experience of the whole trip.

Looked like Richard Burton at the end in the latest pictures. He was a little older than I thought but still too young.

Around 2000 is probably when he did his best work. Cop Land, Hannibal, Narc. Classic movies with parts that suited him. Too unlikable I guess to be a big leading star, but he could act.

This decade has and will see a lot of great names kick the bucket. Clint is not seeing past 2030 I can't imagine, De Niro and Pacino will be approaching 90. Pesci, Nicholson, Keitel. And directors, Scorsese, Coppola, De Palma, Lucas, Spielberg. All of them very old.

Yes I'd almost forgot about that movie but I remember it was good. I can't imagine Hollywood didn't want him for projects and for whatever reason he didn't do much of that at all. Part of the appeal with a Clint Eastwood movie, they always feel a tad different from the big studio productions yet delivers a similar level of brilliance you don't find in most independent efforts.

I guess it makes sense for a guy like Clint to be turned off by the Hollywood environment but I don't know if that's the reason he kept away from it. Maybe he just wanted to do his own thing.