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The Next Picture Show

#148: Robert Redford, Pt. 1 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

David Lowery’s new THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN draws purposely and purposefully on the legacy of Robert Redford, which makes it a perfect bookend to Redford’s star-making turn in George Roy Hill’s elegiac 1969 blockbuster BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. In this first half of our Redford double feature, we dive into that earlier film’s legacy, considering its place in the Western tradition, its quirky yet widely appealing tone, and the complimentary but very different performances of Redford and his co-star, Paul Newman. Plus, some feedback on our recent episodes on MALCOLM X and BLACKKKLANSMAN. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730.   Outro Music: BJ Thomas, “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.2

Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.

0:08.4

Tea break.

0:09.4

Lunch break.

0:10.2

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.1

Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?

0:15.1

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.

0:29.3

Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:36.2

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:42.9

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:50.6

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast,

0:53.4

devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here with Genevieve Koski and Scott Tobias. Tasha Robinson is not here this week, but has been spotted in the wilds of Bolivia. Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context. So every week we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a

1:13.4

current movie.

1:14.4

This week, we're contemplating how much dynamite we need to get into one of those newfangled

1:18.4

safes.

1:19.2

Scott, got to figure it out yet?

1:20.9

I'm thinking just a little more.

1:22.8

A little more it is then.

1:24.2

While you're at it, can you tell us what film we'll be covering this week?

1:30.9

Well, for our next two episodes, we'll be looking at films from opposite ends of Robert Redford's career, but united by more than just their star. The first is the first of two

1:36.0

team-ups between Redford and Paul Newman, both in films directed by George Roy Hill in which

1:40.8

they played partners in crime. We might get to the 1973 film The Sting

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