Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ROBERT REDFORD Godfather of Independent Film...
Look at an American independent film, and chances are the background trees will be in bloom. You can thank Robert Redford for that. Sundance Film Festival, the Park City, Utah, showcase he took over in 1985, is now so crucial for indie auteurs that many plan their movies around it. "They'll shoot in the spring," says Todd Solondz, whose Welcome to the Dollhouse won Sundance's top prize this year, "then edit in the summer and finish by the fall deadline so they can be shown at Sundance in January...
...springtime for off-Hollywood film, with maverick hits like Fargo, Flirting with Disaster, The Brothers McMullen--and Pulp Fiction by that spawn of the indies, Quentin Tarantino. Redford had a fine, leathery hand in all that too. In '85 some 50 independent films were made; last year there were 700. They earned $735 million at the U.S. box office, nearly triple the gross in 1992. Redford's festival created an aura that welcomed young directors and persuaded Hollywood to do the same. Says indie producer John Pierson: "Sundance totally dominates the independent landscape...
Joshua D. Powe '98 describes the families of the students from his high school as "very influential." Graduates of the Dalton School, located on Manhattan's posh Upper East Side, include the children of Diana Ross, John Lennon and Robert Redford. About 10 percent of each graduating class goes on to Harvard...
...plays an Oscar Madison-like newspaper columnist and single father; Pfeiffer is an architect and single mother. They meet and immediately fall in loathe. What do you think will come to pass? In any case, plot turns are one thing, chemistry another. Seasoned superstars--including Al Pacino and Robert Redford--have failed to ignite the screen when paired with the ultracool Pfeiffer. Clooney will at least have this advantage: much of the mating ritual in the movie is conducted via cell phone...