Top Five Robert Redford Films
Robert Redford announced that he will retire from acting after the release of his upcoming film Old Man and the Gun. I have been watching Redford films throughout my life and lately have truly appreciated that he continues to contribute interesting material. Redford used his star power to get some of the best films of the 1970s made. I will leave it to others to sum up his career and discuss the overall impact of the Sundance Film Institute. I think he is an intelligent and underrated actor who brings both a star presence and a sense of authenticity to any part he plays. Redford has only be ennominated once for an Oscar as an actor (for The Sting). Below as a brief tribute are my top five favorite films in which he appears as an actor. For the sake of brevity I omitted his directing career. All is Lost (2013) Some of my favorite films are survival stories. A few years ago I wrote a post on Cast Away. Another film I am very...