1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl…
Inside Daisy Clover, a fictional tale about a child star in the 1930’s, stars Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover. A fifteen-year-old tomboy, she lives with her senile mother Lucile (Ruth Gordon) on the beach, selling forged autographed pictures of movie…
The original Pete’s Dragon (1977) came out when I was a kid. I saw it quite a few times growing up and while I never remember considering it a great movie, I thought it was enjoyable fun. Now, almost forty…
Though Robert Redford had some big screen success with films such as Inside Daisy Clover (1965), This Property Is Condemned (1966) (both with Natalie Wood), and 1967’s big screen version of Barefoot in the Park with Jane Fonda, his breakout…
There is no overt biblical reference in J.C. Chandor’s (Margin Call) All Is Lost, but it’s hard not to think of Robert Redford’s character as the biblical Job, the man who endures one misery after another, with no justification for…
1976’s All the President’s Men dramatizes the Watergate scandal that had unfolded just a couple of years before. As with the book of the same name, the film witnesses the events through the eyes of young Washington Post reporters Carl…
Robert Redford’s first movie role since 2005 and his ninth directorial effort, The Company You Keep, based on the novel by Neil Gordon, is a fictionalized account of the radical anti-war movement called the Weather Underground. Old news footage at…
It was a highpoint of investigative reporting in the 20th century, and the resulting Watergate scandal put the pressure on President Nixon to resign from office–the only American president to do so. All the President’s Men tells the story of…
Criterion | 1969 | 101 mins. | Rated PG Though Robert Redford had some big screen success with films such as Inside Daisy Clover (1965), This Property Is Condemned (1966) (both with Natalie Wood), and 1967’s big screen version of…
Criterion is set to release Downhill Racer, starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, and Camilla Sparv on November 17th. Check out the trailer.