R.I.P., Robert Redford
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Robert Redford, movie star and Sundance founder, dies at 89
He won a massive following with "Butch Cassidy" and "All the President's Men." Through the Sundance Institute, he became a patron saint of independent film.
Tears in my eyes this morning. RIP The Natural
Your mom's secret crush she never told you about.
Sundance has made that leap to join Butch. RIP legends.
My mom’s was Powers Boothe. She always found time to stop puttering around in the kitchen to watch him. It wasn’t until late in life that she confessed. I got her to watch Deadwood just before she passed away after she asked me for some good shows to watch. I mentioned Powers Boothe and that’s all it took
Redford directed “A River Runs Through It,” one of my favorite films. You won’t find a film more beautiful than this one.
Oh, I heard about it.
The short stories are terrific also. Norman Maclean was a tragically underrated author. I wish he’d written more.
I give Redford a ton of credit for spotting a great story and for turning it into a classic film.
Also “Young Men and Fire,” excellent. Yes, Maclean wrote beautiful prose.
I typically am not a "drama" movie fan because life usually has enough of its own so I don't feel the need to pay to watch it .... but good call. Excellent movie.
The number of really great movies he was involved with--primarily acting and then later directing--boggles the mind. Make your own list of your favorites. Everybody has said he was a really great and unassuming guy who cared so much about the environment. He was truly sui generis (one of a kind).
Redford was in some great movies. But I always found it hilarious that he would never consent to getting his hair cut to fit his part. He kept his 60’s foppish hair style even in his westerns and in The Sting. I remember some old school director or actor bitching about Redford’s hair in some of his movies.
If you were Robert freakin’ Redford and you didn’t need to cut your perfect coif, would you?
Think I only ever saw two of his films - The Natural and Indecent Proposal. RIP.
Some of his older movies are classics that you would probably enjoy. The Sting, Butch and Sundance, Jeremiah Johnson, 3 Days of the Condor come immediately to mind.
“You’ve done well to keep so much hair, when so many’s after it!”
Reunited with fellow good guy Butch.
He also wrote the amazing Young Men and Fire. He died before it was done, so it had to be finished by a team, but it’s still a great story
“Young Men and Fire is a 1992 non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean. It is Maclean's story of his quest to understand the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 in Montana's Gates of the Mountains Wilderness, and how it led to the deaths of 13 wildland firefighters, 12 of them members of the USFS Smokejumpers. The book was a national bestseller and won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction.”
You beat me to it. I met the son of the Smokejumper’s Foreman (Walt Rumsey) - one of only 2 that survived as he set a backfire and crawled into the ashes as the fire leapt him) at a hostel in Clifden, Ireland in 1997. We were sitting in the common room and were discussing books we read. I mentioned it and he mentioned his father. Crazy coincidence
Butch and Sundance is a must. But really anything he was in he excelled. A true American treasure.
So many great movies he was either in or associated with as director or producer.
Sneakers is one of my favorites.
And I liked his evil turn in the Marvel Movies.
Wow I am really surprised at thisl
I mean Butch and Sundance, The Sting?
Pretty sure you saw Winter Soldier. Not a huge part but fun.
Sneakers is on of my favorites...Redford, Poitier and Ben Kingsley.
You might want to watch The Sting some night. Just sayin'. Also Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
RR got the Oscar for directing Ordinary People. I recall how hard that film hit me when I saw it. Redford got the best out of all the actors.
Was going to add this. Everyone forgets that he directed that film. Won Osca for best picture as well.
Great line here by Redford in abridge to far. True story that allies had a small window to move Their tanks forward but they didn’t. Window closed and the rest of that battle is history.
- Maj. Julian Cook: you’re not going to stop. Not now. Those are British troops at Arnhem. They're hurt bad. And you're just gonna sit here... and... drink tea?