Robert Redford
Robert Redford has made some classics, Butch
Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, The Sting, both with Paul Newman,
The Way We Were, with Barbara Streisand, The Great Gatsby,
All The President's Men... The list is long and distinguished.
He obviously had an eye for a great script and I've got to
mention The Great Waldo Pepper and Three Days Of The Condor,
a beautifully written and very cleverly plotted script, but,
perhaps, Robert Redford's greatest creation is The Sundance
Film Festival, which now offers support to independant film
makers and is an important venue for independant film makers
to launch their films.
Robert Redford himself has turned to producing
films and made his directorial debut with Ordinary People
and later directed and produced the excellent A River Runs
Through It and, of course, the superb, The Horse Whisperer...
I don't think I've seen a bad Robert Redford
film and apart from the brilliant Butch Cassidy And The Sundance
Kid and the mesmerising The Sting, Robert Redford films that
leap to mind when I hear his name is the wonderfully funny
Barefoot In The Park where he starred with Jane Fonda, Sneakers,
which offers a new and refreshing light on Redford's broad
and deep talent and The Spy Game, where he stars with Brad
Pitt in a film that places your bum firmly on the edge of
your seat. Both Robert Redford and Brad Pitt are superb and
I deem that film a classic.
But I can't leave Robert Redford with mentioning
a films that leave a taste in the mouth and resonate with
unique atmosphere, films such as Out Of Africa, and The Natural,
a film that offers a deeper poignancy and a movie with a theme
that lingers long after it has finished...
Tim Rees
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