Actor Robert Redford is Dead
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This flick is one of those flicks of his that gets overlooked.
Not much dialogue which forces you to watch and pay attention.
Definitely recommend checking it out.
All Is Lost
2013
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner (Robert Redford) awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may carry him into a shipping lane -- but, with supplies dwindling and the sharks circling, the sailor is forced to face his own mortality
Not much dialogue which forces you to watch and pay attention.
Definitely recommend checking it out.
All Is Lost
2013
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner (Robert Redford) awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and barely escapes with his life. With any luck, the ocean currents may carry him into a shipping lane -- but, with supplies dwindling and the sharks circling, the sailor is forced to face his own mortality
RIP, he was great movie star, however he'll be a forever a legend for creating Sundance....
RIP, he was great movie star, however he'll be a forever a legend for creating Sundance....
This GIF is a classic.
RIP, he was great movie star, however he'll be a forever a legend for creating Sundance....
Yo this whole time I never knew this was Robert Redford
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Rest In Peace
Euzhan Palcy: How Robert Redford Changed My Life
The director, the first Black female to helm a studio picture, says she owes it all the Hollywood icon.
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Euzhan Palcy: How Robert Redford Changed My Life
The director, the first Black female to helm a studio picture, says she owes it all the Hollywood icon.
By Euzhan Palcy
September 18, 2025 11:58am
Paul Newman, Euzhan Palcy and Robert Redford
When people ask how I, as a young woman from Martinique, ended up in Hollywood, I smile and think of Robert Redford. Without Bob, my life and career would have taken an entirely different path.
In 1985, Robert Redford hand-picked me among 10 young French filmmakers and invited me to the Sundance Directors Lab in Park City, Utah. It was only my second trip to the United States. At Sundance, I was surrounded by giants — Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Karl Malden, Waldo Salt and Bob himself — who watched me direct, offered notes and treated me as a peer. I was inspired, supported and free to create.
What made Sundance extraordinary was not just the caliber of people, but the setting. We were in the middle of nature, among the mountains, breathing clean air, thinking only about art and storytelling. The Sundance community felt like family: open and welcoming, without prejudice. Even Bob’s dog seemed to embrace me. Sometimes the pooch would follow me, and I started directing him, giving commands as if he were an actor. To everyone’s delight, he actually seemed to listen. It was hilarious but also revealing. I felt completely at home, and in my element.
I came to know Robert Redford quite well and also his daughter Amy. She and I have been close friends ever since. He was far more than a movie star and brilliant actor. He was a man of action, an activist, someone whose convictions matched my own. We sensed that in each other immediately. That is why I trusted him and took his guidance. Alongside François Truffaut and Aimé Césaire, former president of the Regional Council of Martinique, he truly became my godfather.
At Sundance, I worked on my adaptation of André Brink’s novel A Dry White Season, a story of conscience and resistance set in apartheid South Africa. It was a story I felt destined to tell; I once told my parents I would rather die than not make that film.
After the Lab, I was scheduled to return to Paris, but Bob had a different plan: He encouraged me to go to Los Angeles to meet Lucy Fisher, then an executive at Warner Bros., who had reached out to me several times. She had seen my first feature, Sugar Cane Alley, which had created quite a buzz. Like Robert, she recognized something in that film. Bob, man of action that he was, called his assistant Cindy to book my flight and set everything up.
I told him, “Hollywood? Life is too short. I won’t fit in!” But Bob insisted. He looked at me and said simply, “Trust yourself.” And I did. That changed everything.
Lucy offered me various projects — including Malcolm X, which I declined, believing it wasn’t my story to tell when there were very talented African American filmmakers for whom it was (Spike Lee later famously made that film). Instead, I placed a copy of A Dry White Season on her desk.
What followed was pure Hollywood, full of twists and turns. Ultimately, MGM with Paula Weinstein produced A Dry White Season, making me the first Black female filmmaker ever entrusted with a major studio production. That was in 1989. History was made, and Robert Redford opened the door for that. He truly saw me and my unique way of storytelling and respected my voice and vision. Without him, I would never have gone to Hollywood, and who knows if that film would have ever been made.
The Lab was also a lot of fun. I love the above picture with Paul Newman and Bob — we joked constantly, and Bob and Paul treated me like their little sister, even teasing me about my French accent. They made me feel at home in a world I had thought was closed to me. I like to imagine them together now, laughing somewhere beyond, perhaps even with Siméon, the spirit of music and the lead character from one of my films.
When I received my honorary Oscar in 2022 — also in recognition of being the first Black woman directing a Hollywood studio film, a milestone I truly owe to Robert Redford — I asked Bob to be one of the presenters. He was too ill to travel, but his daughter Amy read a beautiful message on his behalf. That gesture, like so many others over the years, reminded me of his generosity, his belief in artists and his commitment.
Robert Redford changed my life, and he helped plant a seed for change in Hollywood. For that, I will always carry him in my heart — with love, gratitude and reverence.
Robert Redford and Euzhan Palcy
Rest in peace.
thats fucked up ...
anyway i been compiling his movies gonna do an ongoing thread for him in the movie section sometime early nex week ...
RIP Bob ...
RIP
thats fucked up ...
anyway i been compiling his movies gonna do an ongoing thread for him in the movie section sometime early nex week ...
RIP Bob ...
Appreciate it
If you come across the movie brubaker, reach out to me please. I heard it was a great movie.thats fucked up ...
anyway i been compiling his movies gonna do an ongoing thread for him in the movie section sometime early nex week ...
RIP Bob ...
I watched The Sting a few days ago, and I'll be starting my own Robert Redford movie viewing. I'm always happy to find out that some of the actors whose work I grew up enjoying, were also really great people too
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