 | Out of Africa
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.42 Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)'s ode to Kenya, one of the profoundest love stories ever written by life itself ... and 100% pure Redfordness (never mind Finch Hatton was really an Oxford-educated Brit).
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 | All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $14.99 A 3rd-rate burglary attempt that turned into the 20th century's biggest political scandal. Redford co-produced & starred as Woodward, next to Dustin Hoffman (Bernstein). Journalistic dynamite.
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 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.25 Redford & Newman #1; the movie that made him a megastar. 2 of the West's most feared outlaws running from a superposse to Bolivia; turning the Western genre on its head on the way. And those 1-liners!
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 | The Sting (Universal Legacy Series)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $9.30 Redford & Newman #2: Johnny Hooker (created specifically with Redford in mind) and Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) play the Big Con on mob boss Doyle Lonegan (Robert Shaw). And it's a hell of a ride!
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 | A River Runs Through It
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $0.25 Based on Norman Maclean's memoir; a tender, sad story of parental/brotherly love & loss. My favorite movie directed by Redford: cinematic poetry celebrating the beauty of Montana & its rivers & skies.
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 | Three Days of the Condor
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.87 Redford as cornered spy "Condor" in the adaptation of James Grady's novel, co-starring Faye Dunaway. His 4th of 7 collaborations with Sydney Pollack & my favorite besides "Out of Africa" (see above).
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 | The Great Gatsby
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $5.02 The quintessential Gatsby, and a visually stunning realization of Fitzgerald's elegy to a bygone era & faltering dreams; costarring Mia Farrow. Ah, to have loved and lost... Ah, to know who we are...
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 | This Property Is Condemned
Buy new: $5.49 / Used from: $4.17 Redford/Pollack #1: "Suggested" by Tennessee Williams's play, costarring a radiant Natalie Wood & the birth of Redford as the alluring stranger (even with pink slips): sad & quintessentially Southern.
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 | The Natural
Buy used from: $1.95 "There goes Roy Hobbs, the greatest there ever was" ... and Bernard Malamud's hero is, you guessed it, your very own Mr. Redford, who could draw on his own baseball training for the role.
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 | Brubaker
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $5.45 Redford going political again; this time in the fact-based story of prison warden Henry Brubaker, whose reform efforts are ground to shreds between political intrigue, conformism and lack of vision.
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 | Havana
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.48 Redford & Pollack Take 7. A sumptuous drama set in the twilight days of Batista's Cuban regime; costarring Lena Olin & Raul Julia (uncredited; his own choice). It undeservedly flopped...but I love it!
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 | Ordinary People
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.46 Redford as director, Take 1; and an instant Academy Award. Based on Judith Guest's novel; a gritty story of a seemingly happy and normal family's difficult adaptation to tragedy.
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 | Quiz Show
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $2.75 More proof of his qualities as a director & America's loss of innocence Part 2 (besides Watergate): The "Twenty-One" quiz show scandal. Brutally realistic but emphatic, too, plus outstanding actors!
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 | The Milagro Beanfield War
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.56 His directorial sophomore; a low-key story of corporate greed, community values and the life on the land, based on the novel by John Nichols. Now finally out on DVD!
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 | Jeremiah Johnson
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $3.95 Redford & Pollack No. 2: The story of "liver eating" Johnson, the loner/mountaineer who took on the Crow nation for murdering his wife. Gritty and realistic; allegedly his personal favorite.
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 | The Clearing (2004)
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $0.01 His best movie in years; a low-key but tight kidnapping/marriage drama with outstanding costars (Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe, Matt Craven), who all perfectly understand the meaning of "less is more."
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 | The Way We Were (Special Edition)
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $4.42 Redford/Pollack No. 3: Keep your hankies out for this one. Bob & Barbra are perfect as WASP novelist Hub & Jewish activist Katie. To think what this could've been w/o politically correct editing ...
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 | The Horse Whisperer
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $4.39 Redford & Pilgrim the horse... oh yeah, and Ms. Scott Thomas. (I love 'em both individually, but the pairing doesn't quite work for me - or maybe it's the topic?) Still, beautiful horse & nature pics!
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 | A Bridge Too Far
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $2.02 His Redfordness in the all-star cast of one of the quintessential WWII epics (about "Operation Market Garden," the allied invasion in Holland). Directed by Richard Attenborough; intense & compelling.
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 | The Candidate
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $11.00 The story of idealistic young politician Bill McKay, whose dreams and goals are slowly watered down by politics as usual. (There was recent talk about a sequel ... wonder what became of that?)
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 | The Great Waldo Pepper
Buy used from: $39.99 His 3rd cooperation with director George Roy Hill ("The Sting," "Butch & Sundance") alas didn't pay off commercially, but is a moving tale of heroism, missed chances and giving up a dying world.
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 | Spy Game (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $0.39 Robert Redford & Brad Pitt as master spy and rookie/maverick in a CIA drama flashing back to the cold war. Fast-paced & well-acted; largely routine, but great fun to watch.
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 | Sneakers (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.90 (Similarly) higher on entertainment value than on coherent content, but a great thriller dealing with computer espionage and the dangers of unchecked governmental intrusiveness.
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 | The Hot Rock
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.74 Don't say he can't do comedy (and forget "Barefoot in the Park"). This adaptation of D.E. Westlake's first Dortmunder novel has great banter, plus stunning NYC vistas & thrills galore.
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 | Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (Broadway Theatre Archive)
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $18.48 Redford's career began on stage: Directed by Sidney Lumet and although primarily Jason Robards's breakthrough piece, this excellent production provides an early (and very uncharacteristic!) glimpse.
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