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...years divisible by five - and, since Sunday?s award ceremony honors the films of 2005, this is one of them - a first or second film directed by a famous actor wins (three of the last five times, when Robert Redford, Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson walked home happy). By that logic, the front-runner is George Clooney?s Good Night, and Good Luck...
...Absolutely, because they helped nurture my work. So yes, I'm really glad. Everything they taught me in the workshops has paid off in my work. And Robert Redford. He hugged me. That was comforting...
...Robert Redford, what began 25 years ago as a sanctuary where he could nuture budding filmmakers in Sundance, Utah has blossomed into an international institute for the arts and one of the most popular independent film festivals going. TIME's Desa Philadelphia caught up with Redford to talk about the Sundance Film Festival as it's about to kick off for the 22nd time tonight (January 19th). She'll be posting more interviews with stars and directors and telling us the latest buzz as the event unfolds. TIME: Why did you create the institute and the festival...
...ROBERT REDFORD: At the very very beginning in 1979 when I had the idea I had reached a point in my career where I directed my first movie and had been producing and acting for a decade and had a very very heavy workload. I decided to stop and put something back and I had the idea of creating a place for more independent type artist to come and work and have a place to develop. The mainstream was already showing signs of moving toward a more centralized position. Also there was new technology coming, there was video, there...
Savvy viewers think they can spot a Sundance film a mall away: the liberal viewpoint, the slow pulse, the precise and subdued acting. No question that, in the 25 years since Robert Redford founded his film institute in Utah, the "Sundance film" has become its own genre. This selection of 10 films spawned at the institute or launched at its festival provides a corrective of sorts, showing that the range is wide and imposing. You can still savor the romantic desperation of sex, lies, and videotape, the working-class wit of Clerks, the community of self-aware losers in American...