Hollywoods tribute to the weather underground is set for limited release in the u. Whats worse, robert redford is 78 years old and looks it. Leftwing actors like robert redford, susan sarandon and other stars in the. Redford, michigan hourly weather forecast the weather network. The company you keep can be seen as a cat and mouse game between two men journalist ben shepard shia labeouf and fugitive jim grant robert redford both attempting to expose the truth and, in the process, redefine their lives. Find the most current and reliable hourly weather forecasts, storm alerts, reports and information for redford, mi, us with the weather network. Directing the film, he also portrays jim grant, a public interest lawyer and single father raising a daughter in albany, new york. Redford will play a former weather underground militant, wanted by the fbi, whose identity is. That a bank robbery resulted in the death of a guard has made the revolutionaries fugitives from murder charges. From either side of the camera, robert redford has been making movie magic for decades, building an incredible filmography that includes acclaimed dramas all the. With robert redford, brit marling, stanley tucci, nick nolte. As robert redford treks along the appalachian trail in a walk in the woods, take a trek yourself down the acclaimed actor and directors filmography. That a bank robbery resulted in the death of a guard has.
Megan kelly discusses weather underground and robert. For nearly 50 years, robert redford has been on quest to prove he is. The company you keep movie trailer, starring shia labeouf, robert redford and julie christie. Todays temperature is forecast to be much warmer than yesterday. Robert redford as the sundance kid, in butch cassidy and the sundance kid 1969 redford, now 76, in a recent picture weather underground terrorist kathy boudin, a convicted multiple murderer and armed robber in kathy shaidles new column on the abouttobe released movie that redford directed and starred in, the company they kept, shaidle asks. In the company you keep, robert redford stars in as well as directs a story of an exweather underground radical who has been living quietly as a publicinterest lawyer in upstate new york for more. May 10, 20 robert redfords latest, the company you keep, isnt a bad movie as thoughtful thrillers go. After all, here is a man who directed and starred in a movie that glamorized the weather underground, domestic terrorists who murdered cops and bombed the. What do you want people to take from this movie about the legacy of the weather underground. Robert redford allowed to promote movie glorifying. Robert redford, susan sarandon, the company you keep movie. Scattered thunderstorms in the morning becoming more widespread in the afternoon. Everything you need to be ready to step out prepared. Robert redford, shia labeouf, susan sarandon, julie.
Thirty years after the revolutionary weather underground resorted to. While covering the story, reporter ben shepard shia labeouf. From 2002 to 2018, redford has narrated the new environmentalists, a pbs series about grassroots activists around the globe. A fter cultivating a fruitful, successful career for more than 60 years, robert redford is a legend in the film industry. May 09, 20 robert redford doesnt know which way the winds blowing. Donate to get the truth out about the weather underground terrorists. Frantz fanon in robert redfords the company you keep, jim grant redford is an attorney on the lam for participating in weather underground antivietnam activities over 40 years ago. Redford, joined costars stanley tucci, brit marling and jackie evancho at a press conference in new york this week to discuss the film. Robert redford, shia labeouf to star in the company you keep. Apr 02, 20 last week, i reminded you about the bloody history of convicted weather underground terrorists kathy boudin and david gilbert, whom leftwing bleeding heart director robert redford pays homage to in his new fictional movie the company you keep. They portray former members of the weather underground. Aug 22, 20 now weve got a full, proper theatrical trailer for the movie. A recently widowed single father, jim grant robert redford, is a former weather underground militant wanted for a 1980 michigan bank robbery and the murder of the banks security guard.
In the company you keep, he looks and moves like a really fit, handsome 76yearold a real distraction, given hes playing a former 1970s radical who now has an 11yearold daughter and is living a quiet life under an assumed name. The characters are realistic and the plot is believable. Robert redford doesnt know which way the winds blowing. He has been hiding from the fbi for over thirty years, establishing an identity as a defense attorney near albany, new york. Robert redford s new film, the company you keep, intends to be a testament to a generationthe generation being arthritic boomers, raised on 60s radicalism, mashed and molded through adulthood in. In making this film redford and the others had to submit, at least in part, to the same state power and agency that illegally pursued the weather underground.
When i interviewed robert redford for an aarp the magazine cover story in 2011, he talked about movies he still wanted to make. Robert redford makes a welcome return to doubleduty as director and lead actor in this cleareyed drama about a former weather underground radical forced to reconcile with the past. Robert redford, the weather underground, and why we read books robert redfords latest, the company you keep, isnt a bad movie as thoughtful thrillers go. Hollywood has always found a way to glamorize bad people. Get your 3day weather forecast for redford charter township, mi. Decades after an illfated robbery, a former member susan sarandon of the weather underground turns herself in to authorities. Apr 05, 20 robert redfords company you keep, which also features julie christie and susan sarandon, follows 1960s radicals in later life.
Redford and his sundance organization have been closely associated with george soros for quite some time now. Robert redford brings his weathered but still shimmering charisma to the company you keep. In the movie, redford plays widower and single dad jim grant, who is an antivietnam war radical and former member of the weather underground. The film is a roman a clef about 60s and 70s radicals shedding longstanding, carefully guarded.
Megan kelly discusses weather underground and robert redford. Smalltown lawyer jim grant robert redford wonders that when he hears the news that susan solarz susan sarandon, a longago member of the weather underground who lived incognito for decades as a housewife and mother, has been arrested and charged with murder for her radical activities 40 years ago. If you saw the last two films robert redford directed 2007s lions for. Hollywoods tribute to the weather underground fox news.
Mary surratt is the lone female charged as a coconspirator in the assassination trial of abraham lincoln. Former weather underground radical jailed in 1981 killing. In this episode i examine whether they were a lethal terrorist organisation, or a nonlethal militant antiwar gang. In 1969, a group of radical antuwar protestors began a. Boudins son, chesa, was raised by americabashing and flagtrashing bill ayers and bernardine dohrn. Robert redford, susan sarandon, julie christie director. Robert redfords company you keep revisits radical 60s the. Redford sold out to george soros several years ago. Frantz fanon in robert redford s the company you keep, jim grant redford is an attorney on the lam for participating in weather underground antivietnam activities over 40 years ago. Megan kelly discusses weather underground and robert redford new movie part 3.
Redford and his sundance organization have been closely associated with george soros for quite some time now and their combined. While covering the story, reporter ben shepard shia labeouf discovers that recently widowed lawyer jim grant robert redford was also a. The company you keep 2012 official trailer youtube. Jul 21, 2011 robert redford and shia lebeouf will be starring in a film that glorifies members of the weather underground, portraying those terrorists as true american heroes. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe. Redford began acting on television in the late 1950s, including an appearance on the twilight zone in 1962. Redford, michigan hourly weather forecast the weather. Today on morning joe, joe scarborough slammed quentin taratino as a pornographer of violence. In short, the fbi won and the weather underground lost, both in terms of real history and in terms of its retelling through cinema. Company you keep robert redford and a new identity. In the company you keep, robert redford stars in as well as directs a story of an ex weather underground radical who has been living quietly as a publicinterest lawyer in upstate new york for. Redford, mi weather conditions weather underground. He had been speaking out concerning robert redford s movie glorifying the weather underground, the company you keep, and had noted redford s sympathy for fidel castro. Robert redford s company you keep, which also features julie christie and susan sarandon, follows 1960s radicals in later life.
Robert redford does doubleduty with his new movie, the company you keep, opening on april 5th. All robert redford movies ranked robert redford movies ranked. Chandor, features a forceful performance from robert redford as a. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life. Photos singer jackie evancho joins robert redford for. The new york post reports that kathy boudins return to respectability after her 2003 parole occurs a week before the release of robert redford s the company you keep, a movie loosely.
Apr 23, 20 in the movie, redford plays widower and single dad jim grant, who is an antivietnam war radical and former member of the weather underground. Robert redfords latest, the company you keep, isnt a bad movie as thoughtful thrillers go. It reimagines the autumn years of the weather underground. The company you keep 2012 directed by robert redford. Robert redfords company you keep revisits radical 60s. Redford charter township, mi three day weather forecast. Too bad joe didnt have even a small fraction of such moral outrage yesterday when he and the morning joe crew allowed robert redford to ramble on and on promoting his new movie the company you keep which glorified weathermen murderers. The terrorist delusions of robert redford quadrant online. The film is a roman a clef about 60s and 70s radicals shedding longstanding, carefully guarded, underground identities to emerge some unwillingly into the harsh light of the late twentieth century. An artful poster for one of the most acclaimed sports movies, michael ritchies downhill racer 1969, in which robert redford played an olympic skier whose competitiveness extends beyond the.
With robin wright, james mcavoy, tom wilkinson, kevin kline. Heck, he even helped alter the course of the marvel cinematic universe in captain america. Redford keeps great company in weather underground tale. He has suggested multiple times that he would retiremost notably in 2016, 2018, and 2019however the almost 83yearold actor cant quite seem to shake the acting bug loose. Robert redford and willem defoe were both at their best. He is of english, scottish, cornish, and irish ancestry. Jun 06, 2011 this blog has one main purpose, to get out the truth about the weather underground.
Apr 11, 20 i always admired robert redford as an actor and director,but i have a hard time with the release of his new movie the company you keep. Screen play has some twists which were not overdone. The winter soldier and hes an oscar winner in the bargain. Robert redford, and with all hes done for independent film with his. Clandestime 150 the weather underground spy culture. Redford charter township, mi hourly weather accuweather. Nick nolte, sam elliott, julie christie, richard jenkins, and robert redford have gone into hiding. A thriller rooted in the weather underground philadelphia inquirer. Get the redford charter township, mi local hourly forecast including temperature, realfeel, and chance of precipitation. The company you keep chronicles the story of a former weather underground militant wanted by the fbi for 30 years, who must go on the run when his true identity is exposed by a young, ambitious reporter hellbent on making a name for himself. Jun 04, 20 megan kelly discusses weather underground and robert redford new movie part 3. Robert redford, stanley tucci, brit marling and jackie. And, yes, the weather underground were deemed terrorists back in the day.
The company you keep is a 2012 american political thriller film produced, directed by and starring robert redford. But the way the movie goes about this is terminally odd. Robert redford, susan sarandon, the company you keep. The press has done a poor job of covering who they were, and what they were about. Filmmaker robert redford has released a fictional movie titled the company you keep being touted as the desperate attempt of a former weather underground student revolutionary to. In the company you keep, robert redford stars in as well as directs a story of an exweather underground radical who has been living quietly as a publicinterest lawyer in upstate new york for. All robert redford movies ranked apr 04, 20 sheesh. The movie will star robert redford, shia labeouf, sam elliott, nick nolte, and susan sarandon.
Redford who also directed plays nick sloan, a 60s radical gone underground after being accused of murder. Robert redfords film adaption of the novel, the company you keep, explores themes of loyalty and decision making with a historical background. Aug 03, 2011 instead, hollywood more often undermines our war effort including the war on terror, glorifies reprobates like che, and as we can expect in robert redfords upcoming movie excuses the terrorists of the weather underground. Ok, sure, guys in their 60s become fathers but the timeline of the company you keep tells us nick sloan redford is a former member of the weather underground wanted for his part in a bank robbery from some 30 years ago in which a security guard was killed. Last week, i reminded you about the bloody history of convicted weather underground terrorists kathy boudin and david gilbert, whom leftwing bleeding heart director robert redford pays homage to in his new fictional movie the company you keep. The script was written by lem dobbs based on the 2003 novel of the same name by neil gordon. A former weather underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers. Robert redford when i interviewed robert redford for an aarp the magazine cover story in 2011, he talked about movies he still wanted to make. Among them, he said, was a film about what its like for two people who had a. The film was produced by nicolas chartier voltage pictures, redford and bill holderman. I look at their relationship with the fbi and the cinema of the weather underground, including how the fbi rewrote robert redfords movie the company you keep. There are a probably a number of things to take away. Robert s mother died in 1955, the year after he graduated from high school.
Robert redford, in full charles robert redford, jr. Robert redford s latest, the company you keep, isnt a bad movie as thoughtful thrillers go. My goal with this blog is to pull together all the relevant infomation, and to set the record straight. They portray former members of the weather underground, which plotted to blow up. This trailer sets up the story a bit differently, using a dialogue cutandpaste to lay out the story of two former weather underground members, one of whom is captured susan sarandon, leading the other redford to go on the run. The company you keep is about the weather underground organization wuo, americas first homegrown terrorists. When his identity is revealed by cynical muckraking reporter ben shepard shia labeouf, sloan vanishes again. Among them, he said, was a film about what its like for two people who had a passionately romantic relationship in the past to come together years later given that redford s new drama the company you keep has been in the making for four years, the actordirector. Apr 02, 20 a former weather underground radical who spent 22 years in prison for an. Apr 11, 20 yet like so many great stars before him, redford, now 76, steadfastly refuses to go gently into that good grandfatherhood. He didnt fear for his life, but he was always on guard. Top 5 movies starring robert redford according to you.
A former weather underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity. Oct 06, 2016 katherine also known as the radical is a 1975 television film written and directed by jeremy kagan, and starring sissy spacek, art carney and henry winkler. Posts about the weather underground written by ericsteiner17. Redford is a former member of the weather underground wanted for. The director is robert redford who manages to give the entire film the feeling of mid19th century aura visually and politically and suggests there is little difference between the approach and consequences of that time and the current management of antigovernment prisoners. A wealthy businessman played by robert redford is kidnapped by a loser played by willem defoe. Grant is being sought by law enforcement in relation to a bank robbery and murder. Jim grant robert redford, is a former weather underground militant wanted. Robert redford, the weather underground, and why we read books. Robert redford doesnt know which way the winds blowing in. And now bill ayers is attempting to portray himself as a latter day robin hood. Throughout the film, the characters who are now established professionals in their.
Katherine the radical 1975 sissy spacek, henry winkler. This is a very low key movie that lets the suspense build slowly until the climax. Robert redfords company you keep, which also features julie christie and susan. After a journalist discovers his identity, a former weather underground activist goes on the run. Jun 06, 2011 the story that follows was written by agustin blazquez with the collaboration of jaums sutton and deals with robert redfords cuban connection which predates his involvement with the movie the company you keep. The film was produced by nicolas chartier voltage pictures, redford and. Movies robert redford, shia labeouf to star in the company you keep. That icon of movie liberalism rounds up some fine old starsjulie christie, susan sarandon, nick noltefor a thriller about veterans of the weather underground.
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