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JEREMIAH JOHNSON
January 6, 2015  | By David Bianculli

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This 1972 Robert Redford movie was filmed in Utah, near the ski area of what was then known as Timp Haven. The rugged, beautiful scenery, filmed during several drastically different seasons, is a major character in this story of a reclusive mountain man played by Redford – and the scenery had a major impact on Redford as well. After the movie was finished, he bought the ski resort and some of the surrounding land, and named it after one of the other cinematic alter egos. Presto: Sundance was born, and the Sundance film festival, and the Sundance Channel, all followed. But this movie came first, and it’s another Redford triumph, with him spending almost as much time alone on screen as in All Is Lost.

 
 
 
 
 
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