Happy Trails Sundance 🙏

[T Boog]

 

[Old Joad]

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[57Gregy]

Three Days of the Condor is still one of my favorite movies. RIP.

[T Boog]

22 minutes ago, 57Gregy said:

Three Days of the Condor is still one of my favorite movies. RIP

Cool. I don't remember if I've ever seen it.

For me, besides Butch & Sundance,, I loved Jeremiah Johnson and The Sting. And I actually really loved The Electric Horseman. I think it's a beautiful story...  A Rodeo star who's come to resent fame sees himself in a famous race horse.  And by helping free the horse, he helps free his himself. I always thought it was an underrated movie. And Redford and Jane Fonda always had great chemistry. I rate it two thumbs up 👍 👍

[mettelus]

He has done so many iconic roles. "Sneakers" (1992) is one of my personal favorites because of the off-the-cuff humor in it with very serious undertones. All-star cast, yet seems quite a few have never even heard of it. RIP

[T Boog]

3 hours ago, mettelus said:

He has done so many iconic roles. "Sneakers" (1992) is one of my personal favorites

Cheers Mettelus. Yeah, Sneakers was a cool movie. I actually saw it at the theater when it came out.   (Too many secrets 😁 ) 

[aleo]

I've always admired Redford's directing, particularly in what may be his masterpiece, "A River Runs Through It" (1992).   More than just an ode to the great outdoors and the art of fly casting, it's a great and very moving exploration of the relationship between a father and his two sons, and the relationship between the two brothers with very different talents and personalities.  Highly recommended.  Then there's what he accomplished with the Sundance Festival and the support he gave helping many independent filmmakers get their start.

[mettelus]

+1. 20/20 did a special episode honoring him the other night and one of the first things they said was (paraphrased), "It seems that 'iconic' gets over-used, but in this case it is true." The interviews with others, his perception and reasoning for the Sundance Festival, and the profound impact that has had on others was phenomenal to watch all unto itself. I learned a lot from that episode even though I thought I already knew most of it.

A weird "holy crap" moment for me was that my high school class was forced to read The Great Gatsby (not the best method to get students to appreciate literature); but when all was said and done, we watched Robert Redford's performance of it (night and day contrast for me as a kid). When 20/20 got to that I was thinking, "How on earth did I forget about that movie????"

[Michael Hopcroft]

The memory that struck me was his 1980 directorial debut, Ordinary People. It was one of the first films to treat mental illness and suicidal ideation with a real degree of compassion that I saw. Previously, "crazy people" were portrayed as funny, dangerous, or both. The idea that they were suffering seemed to be overlooked. That changed with this film. Ordinary People was taut, powerful filmmaking from a first-time director, and to a troubled youth like myself, it was a revelation. 

My mother did not want to take me to see it because she had heard about the mother in the film and didn't want me to compare her to this fictional mother.