Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Cannes Film Festival. Jeanne Moreau commented, "Its remarkable that a man so important in European cinema has found the time to come here and spend twelve days watching movies with us". The jury included two people Eastwood knew well: Catherine Deneuve, with whom he had an affair back in the mid-1960s, and Lalo Schifrin, who had composed most of the jazz tracks to his "Dirty Harry" films. Clint Eastwood in the 1990s Clint Eastwood directed the film "White Hunter Black Heart", an adaptation of Peter Viertel's "roman à clef" about John Huston and the making of the classic film "The
Clint Eastwood in the 1990s parking space in the Malpaso Productions parking lot. Eastwood won the lawsuit and agreed to pay McLaughlin's court fees if she would not appeal. In 1992, Eastwood revisited the western genre in the self-directed film "Unforgiven". He played aging ex-gunfighter William Munny, long past his prime. The film was first conceived of in 1976 under the titles "The Cut-Whore Killings" and "The William Munny Killings". The project was delayed, in part because Eastwood wanted to wait until he was old enough to play the principal character and to savor it as the last of his western films. The film re-imagined