Utah moviegoers will get a chance to see the movies of Robert Redford in a theater during a monthlong retrospective celebrating his iconic acting roles at Salt Lake City’s Broadway Centre Cinemas.
The nonprofit Salt Lake Film Society announced Wednesday that it will stage “Redford Remembered,” a 12-movie program of Redford’s best-known movies, through the month of November. Redford, a longtime Utahn and founder of the Sundance Institute, died Sept. 16 at age 89.
“Robert Redford’s artistry shaped generations of cinema-goers, both through his legendary acting roles and his visionary leadership as founder of Sundance Institute and the Sundance Film Festival,” said Tori A. Baker, the film society’s president and CEO. The retrospective, she said, is “celebrating the timeless power of his performances and the indelible mark he has left on American film and culture.”
The retrospective features only Redford as an actor. The film society said it plans a program next year that will include the movies he directed, such as his Oscar-winning. “Ordinary People.”
Tickets for “Redford Remembered” will be on sale shortly at slfstix.org. The Broadway is located at 111 E. 300 South, in downtown Salt Lake City.
What’s playing:
(20th Century Fox / Utah Film Commission) Robert Redford, left, and Paul Newman star in the 1969 Western "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid."
Nov. 2-3 • ”Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” (1969), featuring Redford’s star-making role as one of a pair of Western outlaws — the other played by Paul Newman.
Nov. 4 • “The Electric Horseman” (1979), with Redford as a washed-up rodeo cowboy who runs off with a prized horse and is pursued by a reporter (Jane Fonda).
Nov. 5-6 • “The Candidate’ (1972), in which Redford plays a long-shot Democratic U.S. Senate candidate who finds his principles slipping away as he gets closer to winning.
(Warner Bros. Pictures) Robert Redford (left) and Dustin Hoffman play reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the 1976 Watergate drama "All the President's Men."
Nov. 9-10 • “All the President’s Men” (1976), in which Redford and Dustin Hoffman play Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, chasing down leads that tie a simple burglary to the Nixon administration.
Nov. 11 • “All Is Lost” (2013), with Redford as a solitary man sailing around the world who must fight for survival when his boat is damaged in the Indian Ocean.
Nov. 12-13 • “The Way We Were” (1973), the classic romance that paired Redford and Barbra Streisand, set against the backdrop of the Red Scare in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s.
Nov. 16-17 • “The Great Waldo Pepper” (1975), starring Redford as a barnstorming stunt pilot in the years after World War I.
Nov. 18 • “Downhill Racer” (1969), in which Redford plays a world-class skier whose determination to win overwhelms everything else in his life.
(Tri-Star Pictures) Robert Redford in "The Natural" in 1984.
Nov. 19-20 • “The Natural” (1984), an adaptation of Bernard Malamud’s novel, with Redford as a one-time baseball phenom trying to make a comeback.
Nov. 23-24 • “The Great Gatsby” (1974), an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s legendary novel, with Redford as the charismatic Jay Gatsby, seducing the wealthy Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow).
Nov. 25 • “Jeremiah Johnson” (1972), with Redford as a former Army soldier who tries to live a solitary life as a mountain man. The movie was filmed largely around Redford’s Sundance resort.
Nov. 26-27 • “The Sting” (1973), the Best Picture Oscar winner that once again paired Redford and Newman, this time as conmen in Depression-era Chicago, scheming to swindle a ruthless tycoon (Robert Shaw).