Things begin in the sixties in Robert Redford’s "The Company You Keep." A group of radicals rob a bank in Michigan. The ringleader, shown in dusty old FBI wanted posters, looks remarkably like The Sundance Kid. Who are those guys? That’s the question the Feds are asking, and they have asked for more than thirty years. More accurately, where are those guys? The robbers long ago blended into ... more >
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The company you keep
Under surveillance
Robert Redford, Shia LeBeouf and Julie Christie
Directed by Robert Redford
Buck
Meet the original horse whisperer
Buck Brannaman and Robert Redford
Directed by Cindy Meehl
"I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn, / Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return." Does Buck Brannaman ever give the lie to Auden’s famous lines! Coming out of a miserable childhood where he and his brother were brutalized for years by their murderous, perpetually drunk father, he has turned into an adult who is all the world’s understanding and compassion rolled into ... more >
In the news: ROBERT REDFORD biography
Here's something we saw on the Washington Post, a review of the new Robert Redford biography by Michael Feeney Callan-- recommended reading for anyone. ... more >
The Conspirator
A river runs through it
Robin Wright, Evan Rachel Wood, and James McAvoy
Directed by Robert Redford
Robert Redford is a good man. He is earnest and decent and his heart is in the right place. He is also an essential figure in cinema as he has single-handedly probably done more for cinema—with the Sundance Festival and Sundance channel and other film-related ventures—than anyone else in the history of this art. The late Henri Langlois, one of the founders of the Paris Cinémathèque and its head ... more >