A Second Look at Bird

Wow…it’s been a long time since I reviewed Bird, Clint Eastwood’s biopic of the jazz musician Charlie Parker. Revisiting it again for the first time in three years, I find that my overall opinion has not changed.

I would say that I’ve added a dimensions to my thoughts on the film, and that’s in large part due to watching it in the context of Clint Eastwood’s body of work as a film director. Throughout all of Eastwood’s work up to this point, the words that I used most consistently were “c...