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When the Pi<\/a> filmmaker brought Requiem for a Dream<\/a> to the workshop, he had a front-row seat. \u201cHe had someone walk him from person to person, prodding him with their name. When you got time, which was only a few minutes, it was yours. He completely locked in,\u201d Aronofsky recalls. \u201cHe never looked over your shoulder. It was a short amount of time because he was hosting the whole thing but I was unbelievably impressed and inspired by his presence of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n A lot of people will be talking about Redford\u2019s presence at this month\u2019s festival, the last before it moves to a new home in Boulder, Colorado as it will be the first without its beloved founder following his death at 89 on Sept. 16, 2025. Though his health kept him from participating in festival events in recent years,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Darren Aronofsky still remembers Robert Redford\u2019s skill in working a room at Sundance. When the Pi filmmaker brought Requiem for a Dream to the workshop, he had a front-row seat. \u201cHe had someone walk him from person to person, prodding him with their name. When you got time, which was only a few minutes, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2244000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2243999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-King-on-Main-Street-What-Robert-Redford-Meant-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244001,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243999\/revisions\/2244001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}