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...provided a valuable antidote to Hollywood in its post-Jaws era of quick thrills and saturation bookings. But while moviegoers have benefited from Sundance, the institute has exacted a high price from its godfather. "Sundance turned out to be something far more personal than I ever imagined," says Redford, who has poured much energy into developing labs for screenwriting, directing, theater and music, as well as the Sundance cable channel. "All that commanded my attention to the point where I got conflicted about my own career. When you're passionate about something, you get so far into...
Sure enough, while nurturing young talent at Sundance, Redford lost his footing as a filmmaker. He cast himself in the popular but sappy 1998 romance The Horse Whisperer. "I had a plan never to direct myself," he says. "I didn't exactly enjoy it." He also directed last year's expensive bomb, The Legend of Bagger Vance, starring Matt Damon and Will Smith as a golfer and his mystical caddy. "It was disappointing, but you live with that," says Redford. "I felt the point of the film was missed. Critics just didn't go with the mythological part...
...Last Castle that depicted an upside-down flag (though in the film, it's merely a sign of distress). Scott toned down some of the explosions in Spy Game. "Right now the scrambling [in the movie industry] has to do with, Is it gonna sell or not?" says Redford. "Moral concerns are overwhelmed by a larger concern, which is business. If this is a sustained mood in the country, then you'll see a reduction of violence. The business will shift to whatever sells...
...question now is whether Redford still sells. Unlike Michael Douglas, who is 57, Redford hasn't courted a younger audience. He turned down the 1997 President-in-peril action film Air Force One, for example, because "it felt like it was approaching a cartoon." (Harrison Ford took the job, and the picture earned $300 million worldwide.) Redford says that when reading scripts these days, he misses "wit and subtlety. You either bring the audience in or you go out there and hammer them in the face to get their attention. That seems to be the general state of things. That...
...movie houses Redford has been eyeing is the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica. He saw his first film there--a Nazi thriller starring John Garfield called The Fallen Sparrow--when he was six. Recalling the Saturday matinees in which half a dozen cartoons and serials played at a stretch, he says, "Movie theaters were not only for entertainment--they were a gathering place for people." This memory kindles a smile and, for a moment, restores the youth of the Sundance...