Tag: Robert Redford
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The Twilight Zone Was Robert Redford’s Scariest Role … Or Was It?
There are a whole lot of things that Robert Redford is famous for: acting, directing, co-founding the Sundance Film Festival, being incredibly handsome, even running Hydra from within the United States government … the list goes on and on and on. He became a silver screen icon in classic films like “Butch Cassidy and the…
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Robert Redford Surprised Us Big Time in This Unexpected Movie Role
Robert Redford is one of the most revered actors in Hollywood history. During his decades-long career, he proved his versatility by playing a variety of characters across an assortment of genres. That said, like many of his peers several of his characters do share significant similarities which led him to be associated with certain qualities…
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Paul Newman and Robert Redford Nearly Did This Third Film Together
Unlike many stars from the New Hollywood era, Robert Redford didn’t peak in the 1960s and ‘70s. While he’s certainly best associated with films like Three Days of the Condor, Jeremiah Johnson, Downhill Racer, and The Candidate, that doesn’t mean that he hasn’t stayed active in the decades that followed. Many of Redford’s greatest roles…
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Sorry, Blockbusters: America’s Real ’80s Cinema Legacy Is Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute
For years, much of the film industry has considered Sundance as a ’90s legacy, one most famous for launching the festival that cemented a market for American independent film. However, the seeds for that phenomenon were sown in the previous decade.Hollywood raced into the ’80s with its blockbuster juices flowing, as the box-office sensations of…
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Robert Redford and Jason Segel Played Father-and-Son in This Sci-Fi Drama
The sheer quantity of Netflix’s output of original science fiction films can be overwhelming for genre films to separate the high-end prestige projects from generic rip-offs of other popular titles. When everything is cataloged under the same content bubble, a title like The Discovery can easily go unnoticed. Although the simple title and stark poster…