17 September 2025 - Robert Redford dies aged 89
Robert Redford Was the Definition of a Movie Star
David Fear (Rolling Stone, 16/00/2025)
He was a Hollywood golden boy and the Sundance kid, the missing link between The Twilight Zone (check out the towheaded 25-year-old playing the Prince of Darkness) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe. An actor-turned-director who helped everybody from Scarlett Johansson to Brad Pitt become household names.
Robert Redford Was as Real as It Gets
K. Austin Collins (The Atlantic, 16/09/2025)
For a long stretch of its opening act, All the President’s Men—the canonical paranoid thriller from 1976—isn’t just about the brewing Watergate scandal, or about the battle between a cagey political machine and an enterprising newspaper. It’s also about Robert Redford, who died today at the age of 89, at work.
‘To my happy surprise, it grew beyond my imagination’: Robert Redford’s Sundance legacy
Jenny Cooney (The Conversation, 17/09/2025)
When Robert Redford launched the Utah-based Sundance Institute in 1981, providing an independent support system for filmmakers named after his role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), it would transform Hollywood and become his biggest legacy.
What Is It About Robert Redford?
Richard Rayner (The New Yorker, 10/05/1998)
Robert Redford told me a story recently about John Huston and his 1948 film “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.” The movie, based on a B. Traven novel, is about three American treasure seekers who find gold in the mountains of Mexico, go crazy, and end up trying to kill one another. Redford saw the film as a child of eleven, and regards it as one of the most meaningful cinematic experiences of his life.
Redford in 1997. Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
