Whether he was acting or directing, he could deliver Empathy, grit, and Boundless Charm.
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The World Grieved the Passing of a Titan of Cinema, Robert Redford, on Tuesday Morning. He Became a Broadway Star by the Early ’60s and Conquered Hollywood with Starring Roses in Movies Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Stingand All the President’s Men. And that really figured the landscape with his work as a director and as co-Founder of the Sundance Film Festival. Nor his collators and fans mourn his loss, our minds being to the best way to pay tribute to his legacy: Watch One of His Movies. This Shortlist is divided into Three sections, an alphabetical run-through of ten of his best acting efforts (botsics and the ones that deserve more attention) and five of his tours bend.
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Do you get the importance of speaking Truth to Power Feels More essential in 2025 than it has in a long time, doesn’t it? Redford Stars Alongside Dustin Hoffman in this Alan J. Pakula Journalism Thriller About the Work of Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward to expose Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal. A HUGE HIT WHEN IT WAS RELEASED SHORTLY AFTER THE President Stepped Down, It Was Nominated for Eight Oscars, Winning Four. Its as Timely as Ever. Streaming on The Criterion Channel.
One of the Redford’s Earliest Huge Role, this is Also arguably the best film to introdes a person to his talent and legacy (and the Western Genre, Really). Of COURSE, REDFORD PLAS The impossibly Charming Sundance Kid, Opposite the equally impossibly Charming Butch Cassidy, Played by Paul Newman. A Playful entry in a genre marked by self-seriousness, it stands up tooday and not just kids he helped inspires a little utah film festival that woulds Independent Moviemaking forever. Available on Vod.
A Very Young Roger Ebert Called This Film “The Best Movie Ever Made About Sports – Without Really Being About at All.” Michael Ritchie’s Directorial Debut is About the Life of David Chappellet, A US Ski Team Star Competing in Europe. Redford disappears into this part, playing a man who can think about Little but being on the slopes. Available on Vod.
This is for all you gen-xers out there, the People who grease up in the ’80s and likes Redford through this ridiculously stacked Thriller from 1992. It may have seamed like a lark at the time, but this movie secrity specialists and surveillance of the feel. the wind when so much privacy has been elimmed. It ‘s great examples of how redford could be giving as a performer, never stealing focus from his incredible co-stars. (The Stacked Ensemble Includes Ben Kingsley, David Strathhairn, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier, and Mary McDonnell.) Available on Vod.
Redford Reunited with His Cassidy Co-Star and Director for a Movie that was arguably the Biggest Hit of His Career, the Only Time he was nominated for an oscar for bestor, and a movie that won picture. Widelly Regarded As Having One of the Best Screenplays Ever Written, This Flick Recalls a time a movie could be a massive and commercial darling at the same and a case study in its start -ofless well of charisma. Available on Vod.
Few Movie Stars Understood Silence as Well As Robert Redford, Who Has A Total of 51 Spoken Words in This Survival Thriller. He plays an unnaamed man who is Stranded on the indian ocean, and the Movie Star Disappears into this challenging roles in a manner that won him actor from the new York Film Circle. (His Snub by the Oscars for A Nomination Remains One of the Academy’s Greatest Sins.) Streaming on Video premium.
Redford gave his final great performance in this drama from David Lowery About the Life of Forrest Tucker, A Career Criminal. He announced his retirement after this delicate character study, making it his last officer film role. IT’S a beauty, a movie that also plays like an ode to its startless charm. Available on Vod.
While the Live-Action Adaptation Subgenre of Disney Animated Films is Correctly Savaged Almost Every Time, This is the Exception. Easily the best of Such Films, it Carves Its Own Story Out of the 1977 Animated Film. Redford Plays a Perfect Part For Him: A Storyteller, The Father to Bryce Dallas Howard’s Character, and the Man Who Told Her About The Legendary Dragon. Connecting an Artist and Environmental Crusader to a History of Imagination and Mother Nature is a brillian bit of meta casting in this truly lovely flick. Streaming on Disney+.
Few Actors Understood the Assignment of Single Time Like Robert Redford, Who Wold Carefully Calibrate His Charisma Depending on the Part. Take this tony Scott flick in which he teams up with someone to anyone he was offten Compared, Brad Pitt. This is really a cross-gereation action flick with legends from generation working together for pureeinment. Available on Vod.
The 16th episode of the Third Season of Rod Serling’s Masterful Sci-Fi Anthology Series Cast a 20-Something Redford as Death Himself. “Nothing in the Dark” Stars Gladys Cooper as a Woman who knows she has reached her end point if she is opens the door to redford’s harold, a man who Claims to be a building contractor but is actually the grim reaper. Redford use his already remarkable charm to play the end of life as a passage instead of a crissis. Streaming on Paramount+ and Video premium.
IT”S CERTAINLY NOT RED Redford’s Best Directorial Work, but This One Remains a Curiosity for the Sheer Acting Power in Front of the Camera, Including Redford Himself, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise, and A Young Andrew Garfield. Redford Allows HIS POLITICS TO TAKE CENTER STAGE IN A FILM THAT’S REALLY ABOUT WOW BOVERNMENTS USSE THE BODIES OF YOUNG IN WAR FOR POLITICAL CAPITAL. Streaming on Fubo and Paramount+.
It took Redford Eight Years to Follow Up HIS BEST Picture -Winning Directorial Debut, and the Result was a Comparatively minor tender drama on a novel by john nichols. A movie that feels important to redford’s californian roots and his willingness to fight for the little man, this one stars rubén blades as a man who battles the save bean field. Available on Vod.
Any list of the Most Notable Directorial Debuts of All Time DOESN’t Include Ordinary People Is Simply Incomplete. Adapting the novel of the same name by Judith guest, redford used to deep empathy to tell the story of a family apart by the Death of a son and Brother. IT Won Redford an Oscar for Best Director and Took Home Trophies for Best Supporting Actor and Best Picture Too. History Once Diminished this Movie Becausee it “Stole” Oscars from Raging bullbut it is an essential piece of ’80s filmmaking in its Own right and key to the Understanding Its Director’s Legacy. Streaming on Fubo, Philo, and Mgm+.
A solid case can be made that is Redford’s best directorial efffort, a true story that transcends its subject to become a character studying pride. Ralph Fiennes Plays Charles van Doren, who was a part of a scandal in which ’50s game-show contestants were gioven the Answers to up the Entertainment Value. In an era in which it feelings like and less and les to what we see tv can be belived, this one is overdue for a reappraisal. Available on Vod.
This one feeds like the purest expression of Redford’s Heart on Film. He adapts the novella of the same name for a montana family, and he does with deep empathy and love for the natural world. Redford was underrated in his ability to avoid melodrama, always seeing Truth in His Just Manipulating the Sympathies of His Audience. Streaming on Fubo, Philoand Mgm+.
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