In 2012, I had the idea of reuniting the PRINCESS BRIDE cast and creative team for a special 25th anniversary screening at @TheNYFF. Months in advance, my first call was to Rob Reiner, who said yes, after which everyone else quickly fell into place. If Rob was in, they were in.
The world of cinema has lost one of its great, impish, radical geniuses, Ken Jacobs, who could create the most dazzling of cinematic illusions with or without any actual film in the projector. From @LAWeekly on the occasion of Ken's 2009 L.A. residency.
RIP Robert Redford, an outlaw in cowboy couture, who spent much of his remarkable 65-year career celebrating what he loved about the American experiment while holding a mirror up to our unsightly blemishes.