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https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/9202-REVIEW-THREE-DAYS-OF-THE-CONDOR-1975-STARRING-ROBERT-REDFORD-AND-FAYE-DUNAWAY,-UK-DUAL-FORMAT-SPECIAL-EDITION-FROM-EUREKA-VIDEO.html BY DARREN ALLISON Posted by Cinema Retro in Blu-ray/DVD/Streaming Reviews & News on  Wednesday, June 1. 2016 It was always going to be something rather good that would eventually topple Jaws (1975) from the box office number one slot. Sydney Pollack 's compelling political thriller, Three Days of the Condor , achieved that feat. It is a film steeped in speculative government dealings and the shady side of its associations with large business corporations. Three Days of the Condor is arguably one of the greatest thrillers to emerge from the 70s. it arrived directly in the slipstream of the Watergate scandal that had witnessed the toppling of a president and a severe shifting of the United States political arena. The ripple effect from such political scandals bought about a change in American c...

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/sydney-pollacks-three-days-condor-one-finest-spy-thrillers-ever-filmed/ By Sven Mikulec CINEPHILIA & BEYOND The paranoid, skeptical, post-Watergate America gave birth to Sydney Pollack’s first-class thrilller Three Days of the Condor . The film, carried out on the shoulders of glorious Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway and orchestrated masterfully by Pollack, is based on James Grady’s novel Six Days of the Condor , adapted by screenwriters Lorenzo Semple, Jr., the writer of The Parallax View , and David Rayfiel , a frequent collaborator of Pollack ’s. In a nail-biting way, the film delves into the moral ambiguity that characterized the early 1970s US government and deftly reflects the prevailing feelings of distrust and betrayal in the American society .  We urge you to take a careful look at Semple Jr. and Rayfiel’s screenplay , one of the more prominent examples of fine spy thriller writing. Also, don’t make the mistake of ignoring Lorenzo Semple...

Brian Hamill / TriStar Pictures / Alamy https://www.theatlantic.com/author/k-austin-collins/ The late actor’s talent could seem invisible until the right conditions made it heroically apparent. By K. Austin Collins September 16, 2025 For a long stretch of its opening act, All the President’s Men —the canonical paranoid thriller from 1976 — isn’t just about the brewing Watergate scandal, or about the battle between a cagey political machine and an enterprising newspaper . It’s also about Robert Redford , who died today at the age of 89, at work. A group of burglars is arrested while attempting a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, and a reporter, Bob Woodward (Redford), gets a call from his editor, who tells him to start asking questions. He begins pestering attorneys, listening in at court hearings, and making phone calls—potential leads; strangers who may know something; names jotted down, circled, and scribbled out haphazardly on his yellow legal pad. He, in ...

(Top photo of Robert Redford in “The Natural”:  Film Publicity Archive / United Archives via Getty Images) https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6636356/2025/09/17/robert-redford-roy-hobbs-the-natural/ By Tyler Kepner Sept. 17, 2025 LOS ANGELES — Two retired ballplayers, left-handed hitters with hundreds of career home runs, stood by the batting cage at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday when a visitor mentioned a name: Roy Hobbs. Both replied with the same five words. “The Natural,” Raúl Ibañez and Chase Utley said. “My favorite movie.” Ibañez was 12 when Robert Redford, who died on Tuesday , starred as Hobbs, the best there ever was. In high school, Ibañez said, he would watch “The Natural” before every game. He went on to play 19 years in the majors, teaming with Utley for a while on the Philadelphia Phillies. Both played the game hard, with an understated grace. If either ever launched a ball into the lights, setting off an electrical explosion, they’d have put down their heads and trotted ...

Ruth Ann Steinhagen, then-19, in the Cook County Jail  after she shot Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Eddie Waitkus in 1949.  On the table: a photo of Waitkus taken in the hospital where he was recovering from his bullet wound. The story of his shooting was the inspiration for Bernard Malamud's novel The Natural.  Steinhagen died this past December. AP https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/03/18/174623312/stalker-who-inspired-the-natural-dies-lived-real-life-in-obscurity MUST READS MARCH 18, 2013 - 11:50 AM ET HEARD ON ALL THINGS CONSIDERED By   Mark Memmott Though we've seen The Natural many times, we have to confess we didn't know that a real woman shot a real baseball player in 1949 and that their story inspired Bernard Malamud's 1952 book and Robert Redford's 1984 movie. But over the weekend, obituaries appeared about Ruth Ann Steinhagen, 83, who "disappeared into near obscurity" as the Chicago Tribune says and died last Dec. 29 with li...

https://royhobbs.com/about-us/who-is-roy-hobbs#:~:text=According%20to%20Wikipedia%2C%20Author%20Malamud,in%201941%20and%201946%2D55. Roy Hobbs is the character in the book, “The Natural,” by Bernard Malmud, written in 1952 , and turned into a Hollywood production in 1984 , thrusting the fictional baseball hero Roy Hobbs on the American public. The book was hardly a best seller … the movie, however, has survived 25+ years and remains a staple of cable television, with Robert Redford playing the role of Roy Hobbs. Ron Monks chose the name “Roy Hobbs” for his baseball organization in 1989 . For Monks, the choice of Roy Hobbs was easy as he could see the parallels from the Roy Hobbs character to our own participation in baseball as adult amateurs. Roy Hobbs is drawn away from baseball at an early age and returns in later life to enjoy and appreciate the game for what it is. The history of Roy Hobbs as a fictional character is interesting since it brings several of our oldest mythological...

American actor Robert Redford on the set of the skiing drama 'Downhill Racer', Kitzbuhl, Austria, 1969. (Photo by Ernst Haas/Getty Images) (Photo: Ernst Haas / Getty Contributor) https://www.skimag.com/culture/robert-redford-ski-tribute/?utm_medium=organic-social&utm_source=SKI_Magazine-facebook&utm_content=comment&fbclid=IwY2xjawM6IfxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF6MlYzcGV0NWNUREx4ejBJAR613ljvu13-N9ITD2A66wDYqx5GI0tNzXXH1Xa-_pj3T4XpS5iIoNfv2VrVLw_aem_fWSfWnHmIZLROjLCc1jJXg In honor of the late Robert Redford we revisit an interview with him from November 1975. Dick Needham   Jamie Aranoff   Updated September 18, 2025 02:29PM Robert Redford passed away this week at the age of 89. He was a pioneer both in the film and ski industry and the founder of Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah. To celebrate a storied career in the ski industry, we revisit an interview from 1975 written by Dick Needham, a longtime editor of SKI, on Mr. Redford, where he shares his take on learning to ...

Ralph Fiennes, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, James Vanderbilt and more on working with cinema’s blue-eyed boy "He was always the coolest, calmest person in the room" "He looked at me through the crowd and smiled. It was the sweetest smile – I’ll always treasure it" With his kindness, his generosity and his extraordinary aura, Robert Redford won hearts all over Hollywood. Here, co-stars and colleagues pay tribute to the late actor 19 Sep 2025 G2 - THE GUARDIAN 'At every turn he chose to disarm, to put you at ease'    - James Vanderbilt ( Truth , 2015) He knew the effect he had on people. Crew members who’d been working on movies for 30 years would turn into teenagers at the sight of him. Cate Blanchett told me she changed clothes three times before coming to work in case she bumped into him before she went into wardrobe. He started out as a stage actor, then became the most handsome and famous movie star in the world, then decided he wanted to become a producer, an...