Robert Redford: Leaping from 1973 to 2013
Blu-ray reviews of two films showing Robert Redford in peak form – 1973’s The Way We Were (Twilight Time) and 2013’s All Is Lost (eOne).
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BR: All Is Lost (2013)
J.C. Chandor’s lone-man-on-the-sea film is an unpretentious survival tale of a confident, stoic, practical minded man (Robert Redford) who does everything right to avoid hunger, wayward drift, and death, but is repeatedly foiled by Mother Nature at every turn…
BR: Way We Were, The (1973)
When a highly reluctant Robert Redford finally buckled under Sydney Pollack’s pleading and agreed to co-star with Barbara Streisand in The Way We Were, the actor probably assumed the film wouldn’t do little more than maybe nudge his marquee status, given his role consisted of a pretty boy to whom writing comes easy, and life’s conflicts are never truly dire…
Best Laid Plans + Wandel’s
A review of the CBC’s recently broadcast 6-episode adaptation of Terry Fallis’ novel Best Laid Plans, set and filmed in Ottawa, and because I’m the editor, links to an extract of a garden video I shot in the Gatineau region.
TV: Best Laid Plans (2014)
Based on the novel by Terry Fallis, this 6 episode CBC series follows the surreal events which push a skilled but poorly respected speechwriter to make a deal with his abusive boss and agree to run a loser candidate in a small Ottawa riding to fend of threats of an unwarranted RCMP investigation of fiduciary impropriety…
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