One of the classics currently featured in our Fan Favorites from Universal Pictures sale, The Sting is the 1973 blockbuster that won seven Academy Awards — including Best Picture. Originally released theatrically on Christmas Day of 1973, this cinematic journey…
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What’s Your Favorite Film Directed by Robert Redford?
Since winning a Best Director Academy Award first time out for 1980’s Ordinary People, Robert Redford has become as popular behind the camera as before it. Which of Redford’s directorial works is your favorite?
Read more →Newman/Redford: Butch & Sundance vs. Gondorff & Hooker
We’re shaking things up this time. Instead of the “one actor, two film roles” norm, we have the acting duo of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. Two magnificent movies! And…
Read more →Ordinary People with Extraordinary Issues
Guest blogger Kim Wilson writes: Ordinary People (1980) was nominated for six Academy Awards; it won four. To this day, some people are still upset over the fact that Ordinary People won the Best Picture Oscar over Raging Bull. These…
Read more →Charly (1968): Movie Review
Charly (1968) I’ve been re-watching a lot of my favorite Cliff Robertson movies recently. I’m having a tough time accepting the fact that he’s gone… I never saw any of his later films, so to me he was still a…
Read more →Barefoot in the Park (1967)
I finally watched Barefoot in the Park starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. Based on Neil Simon‘s play, the movie is about a girl –hereafter referred to as “The Kook”– who marries a kind of serious lawyer and then regrets it…
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