Robert Redford – Classic Star, Maverick Director, 1993
I recommend all of these to view (including Brubaker) – The Chase, Barefoot in the Park, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, Downhill Racer, The Candidate, Jeremiah Johnson, The Sting, The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, All the President’s Men, Brubaker, The Natural, Out of Africa, Legal Eagle, Havana, Ordinary People, The Milagro Beanfield War, Sneakers, Incident at Oglala, River Runs Through It, and Indecent Proposal
It is thanks to this insightful special episode that I now rank Robert Redford alongside Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper and Michael Douglas as having one of the most fascinating and remarkable careers of all Hollywood leading men (Eastwood for his being a “man for all seasons” artist, Cooper for his being a continual evolution of the American action hero – and his being arguably the most authentic film star – and Douglas for his topical career choices and creating an emotionally-authentic and resonant portrait of the “modern man” in the 1980s and 1990s).
All the President’s Men (1976) is one of the greatest films ever made, and the lyrical and poetic A River Runs Through It (1992) remains a personal favourite of mine.