War games, was one of the first Western movies appeared in USSR at time of "global discharge" (or better translation global easing), it was so fresh wind.

I have seen movies with Redford later, but unfortunately, I just now got info about connection of Redford with War games.

RIP Great man.

"Sneakers" is such an entertaining watch for anyone that's never seen it. Well worth your time.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

Oh no - we’ve lost a great defender of democracy and the environment. Throughout his personal life and professional film career, he consistently sought to spotlight government, corporate, and military-industrial corruption while shining a light on the importance of democracy. The world has lost a remarkable person!

Do yourself a favor and watch some of his most important movies that represented his ideology "Truth", "Brubaker", "Sneakers" or "Spy Game".

"All is Lost" (2013) funny enough got me interested in offshore sailing in my late teens.

Incredible performance by Redford, first film that really left an impression on me. There is only one or two lines of dialogue in the entire film.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/all-is-lost-2013

Redford's Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival was a monumental contribution, changing the film industry for the better, a boon to indie filmmakers. IMO this is Redford's most important legacy.

This is so essential now especially as Hollywood has become more consolidated and corporate.

I used to feel some sort of strange reassurance whenever I'd see him on screen, in any kind of film, in any kind of role.

Being an espionage lover, of course, Spy Game will have a special place; then there's him playing Sundance Kid, but I remember him for Out of Africa and The Way We Were. I know many might say, 'But he was not central in them'; I'd say that he was. And no, not the only central role. That's how I remember him and these films. What masterpieces of films, and how beautifully he played his roles in these; and the things he stood for.

What a loss. Sneakers inspired me to pursue my dream of being a penetration tester.

I first discovered his acting via a long forgotten torrent site.

I used to go onto Suprnova[0] and sort by "most seeded" and alongside a sea of pornography, up filtered gems like the 1992 cult classes we all know and love. (As well as, at the time, a lot of really got big beat electronic albums, but the uhn tiss tiss is a conversation for another thread.)

I had been a big gamer growing up, but found that folks weren't growing out of toxicity, and migrated to being a film/tv geek. More art galleries, less LAN parties, that sort of thing.

I guess he's jammin' revolvers into Russian dude's backs at the opera in heaven now...

I haven't found another film that captures the feeling of blowing past building security, the front desk, and the CEO's secretary to inform them if you were the guy who'd been threatening their NGO, they'd be dead -- and oh, by the way, here's a list of the systems I could own without setting foot in your building.

Nowadays, you're weird if you socialize offline and eschew social media, but back in the day being a hacker was not considered cool or interesting -- if anything, we were scary.

Truly a film before it's time, truly a loss.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprnova.org

Ordinary People, Redford's directorial debut, is one of my favourite movies. A movie that deceptively appears simple but that is wonderfully emotionally deep with great performances from the entire cast. I must give it a rewatch.

Last few minutes of Three Days Of The Condor[1] should be required watching for everyone.

[1] https://youtu.be/vZNnDiDSUiI?si=6hLz0X00uDhfVdPE

They really don't make them like Robert Redford anymore — truly one of my favorite actors who could elevate anything he was in. 89 is an impressive run — especially given how sharp he was right up til the end.

If you've never seen his movies, you can basically pick them at random and you'll find a good one. But All the President's Men is one of my favorite films of all time.

Any actor with even 10% of successful movies that Redford would be considered an "A" lister. Thanks for all the entertainment for 5 decades, Robert. RIP.

I still re-watch Spy Game every now and then, classic Redford acting.

this gets me everytime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsDnrFBpsBk

RIP RR

I found the Watchmen HBO series alternate universe version of Redford as “liberal version of president Ronald Reagan” a fascinating thought experiment

His directing skills were legend too: Quiz Show, The Legend of Bagger Vance, A River Runs Through It, ....

Rest easy "Sundance Kid".

RIP "Wonderboy" ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural_(film)

"Lions for Lambs" is widely panned, but I think spoke to a particular subset of people interested in doing over talking. RIP to a great.

The introduction to a river runs through it is an interesting read. I never realized how much creative influence Redford had over the production of the movie until I read it a few months ago.

Redford was an excellent human off screen. Applied his fame and resources in meaningful ways. His biography is worth a read.

#SETEC_ASTRONOMY

Sad. He was so prolific and such a good actor. I liked a lot of his films. Two in particular were The Last Castle and Spy Game.

Him at 89 was more handsome than me in my 20's.

RIP. The Last Castle.

Oh wow, last night I was just listening to his commentary on "All the President's Men" (which came up a couple of weeks ago here on HN when we were talking about ratfucking).

Great movie, great commentary.

RIP Bob Redford, your movies will stay with us forever.

...and a river runs through it.

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I know we live in an age where if someone dies, you cannot criticize him, but Redford is famous for the blackballing of James Woods. I vehemently disagree with Woods' politics but that shouldnt preclude him from employment. Its very clear people like Redform made sure people like Woods were targeted for their political and personal views. Redford was a huge Hollywood power, not just this 'kindly grandpa' actor but a power-player of the highest order. Redford ran a major film and television production company and as such decided, personally, who to hire or fire on his own whim.

Robert Redford is also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival, so getting on his bad-side is strongly career-effecting. People lived in fear of getting on this guy's bad side.

On set, he sounds like the typical Hollywood nightmare with famous clashes with his costars and directors. Arthur Laurents, the writer of The Way We Were, described Redford as an "ego maniac" and control freak for his on-set behaviors.

I say this as a leftist, but "The Truth" is liberal catering-to, and whitewashes Rathers's lack of due diligence in the Bush document, which even to a largely uniformed person like me thought, "Uh isnt that a modern font?" Dan Rather's rush to to this story is not a 'victim' but the failure of basic journalism. I dont think Rather should have resigned, but the idea that's he's this kind-hearted innocent, as the film mostly portrays him as, is just dishonesty. Rather saw money and fame in breaking a big story, and ran with it without much care.

Shrug, I've always seen his PR as very heavily manufactured and played towards the NYTimes and Variety and Sundance crowd in a very targeted way. And it worked, Redford died with an estate worth at least $200m. Capitalism gonna capitalism I guess, but the reality is Redford was quite the vindictive partisan who used his wealth and power against his perceived political enemies and whitewashed some questionable people.