Park City • Robert Redford retired from acting last year, and this year, without saying so outright, he more or less retired from explaining his Sundance Film Festival to reporters.
“I don’t think the festival needs a whole lot of introduction now,” Redford said Thursday, greeting members of the media at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival’s traditional opening-day news conference. “I think it runs on its own course. … I can move on to a different place.”
With that, and a quick shout-out to the festival’s purple-clad volunteers “who stand out there in the cold and rush people this way and that,” Redford exited the stage at Park City’s Egyptian Theatre.