Even if you’ve never seen Jeremiah Johnson, you’ve seen The Nod. It’s been floating around social media for years now — the slow, zoom-in GIF of a beaming, bearded Robert Redford (not Zach Galifianakis, as many have mistakenly assumed). You know Gen-Zers are gonna explode into applause when that moment appears in this wild 1972 adventure, playing this week as part of the Belcourt’s Redford retrospective. In one of several films the star did with director Sydney Pollack (Tootsie) throughout his career, Redford stars as the titular Mexican American War veteran (based on actual mountain man John “Liver-Eating” Johnson) who gets fed up with civilization and roughs it out in the snowy mountains with wolves, bears and Natives. Johnson is another visually stunning but downer-ass revisionist Western from the ’70s that surprisingly made a lot of money — and remains a not-so-subtle reminder of how Vietnam did a real number on us back then. One viewing and you’ll discover that The Nod is one of the few blissful, reassuring moments this movie’s got. Visit belcourt.org for showtimes.
Jan. 24 & 27 at the Belcourt
2102 Belcourt Ave.
