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Robert Redford has died

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Re: Robert Redford has died

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uncircle wrote: post #118
sho_hn wrote: post #38

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I loved this very much, and I've seen it a couple of times. Together with "Touching the Void" it ranks high on my list of the best survival pictures ever made, a specific genre I enjoy very much. And it's very intimate. 106 minutes of just you the viewer, and Robert Redford. I might just rewatch it tonight. It feels fitting.

I got into mountaineering (movies) after reading Into Thin Air, about the disaster atop Mount Everest in 1996. Haunting story, fantastic book. For real life lost at sea stories, there’s “438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea” telling the story of fisherman Salvador Alvarenga that spent more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

If you love survival stories, checkout “Deep Survival “ that analyzes why some people survive and others don’t. Brilliant

Re: Robert Redford has died

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Post by m463 »

lapcat wrote: post #21

Redford's Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival was a monumental contribution, changing the film industry for the better, a boon to indie filmmakers. IMO this is Redford's most important legacy. This is so essential now especially as Hollywood has become more consolidated and corporate.

I just realized this is probably from the sundance kid in some way

Re: Robert Redford has died

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Post by itisit »

lapcat wrote: post #21

Redford's Sundance Institute and Sundance Film Festival was a monumental contribution, changing the film industry for the better, a boon to indie filmmakers. IMO this is Redford's most important legacy. This is so essential now especially as Hollywood has become more consolidated and corporate.

Had Redford passed some 30 years ago, your remarks would have been true. By the early 2000s, Sundance became nothing more than a marketplace for a formulaic film type (quirky dramedies with offbeat characters) that big studios (a.k.a. Hollywood) would bid over. Sundance ultimately commodified "independent film".

Re: Robert Redford has died

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Post by xarope »

IndySun wrote: post #43
uptown wrote: post #2

"Sneakers" is such an entertaining watch for anyone that's never seen it. Well worth your time. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

Haven't rewatched since it was first released. As an audio person I was particularly impressed with a scene whereby someone who was locked in a trunk determined their location by remembering the sound made by bumps on a specific road. Is that right? Or am I thinking of the last time I was kidnapped?

I think you are right. What did it sound like? The road? When you were in the trunk, the last time you were kidnapped, what did the road sound like?

/j

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Post by iancmceachern »

kkylin wrote: post #92
ascagnel_ wrote: post #34

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They're not on the roof for that scene; they're in his office, using the computer room's air conditioning as a sound mask (and using a Cray Y-MP as a bench). While the movie takes some very early-90s liberties with technology (especially the scene where they use the chip), it's remarkably respectful of hacking -- there's a stronger emphasis on social engineering then the purely technical, and my "head canon" is that…

It's also remarkably respectful of Bay Area geography -- they got the major bridges right. None of that Dustin Hoffman going the wrong way on the Bay Bridge stuff.

Totally, one of my dogs favorite stops on our walk is that plaza where they met the "NSA agents"

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testing22321 wrote: post #141
uncircle wrote: post #118

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I got into mountaineering (movies) after reading Into Thin Air, about the disaster atop Mount Everest in 1996. Haunting story, fantastic book. For real life lost at sea stories, there’s “438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea” telling the story of fisherman Salvador Alvarenga that spent more than a year adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

If you love survival stories, checkout “Deep Survival “ that analyzes why some people survive and others don’t. Brilliant

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Post by jhbadger »

duxup wrote: post #65
greesil wrote: post #64

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"Alexa, buy me three tons of toilet paper"

Little riff on that: I miss when Amazon had the "Dash" buttons, it was better than voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Dash

Those buttons were fun and cheap to hack for your own projects too!

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Post by JKCalhoun »

uncircle wrote: post #116
mrexroad wrote: post #104

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“Spy Game” is one of be one of the best spy films I’ve seen in terms of recruiting and handling assets.

Thanks for the recommendation. If you want realistic, modern spy show, I strongly recommend “Le Bureau Des Legendes”. I heard there’s an American remake, which probably makes it over-the-top for their audience, but the original is top-tier TV.

Plus one on the French, "The Bureau". Amazing series on spy-craft, double-think, and of course the risks.
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