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Reds. 200 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1981. The original John Reed was a dashing young man from Portland who knew a good story when he found one, and, when he found himself in the midst of the Bolshevik.
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American journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) journeys to Russia to document the Boleshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. His fervor for left-wing politics leads him to Louise Bryant ...
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- Warren Beatty
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- Warren Beatty
Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World.
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Beatty‘s long-time passion project had been to take Reed’s larger-than-life story and turns it into a larger-than-life film. Using his star-power and probably lots of Beatty charm to secure funding, he packed it with an all-star team that’d make Oscar-baiters of today tremble. Behind the camera, he had legendary Italian cinematographer Vittorio Sto...
In many ways, Redsseems like what we’d now call “Oscar bait,” with its epic love triangle of powerhouse stars set amid the backdrop of a massive historic moment, but the details keep it far from that. The film deals with, in great detail, the conflicts within the American labor movement at the time of the Russian Revolution—the difference between t...
No one in 1981 could have imagined how ubiquitous neoliberal ideology would become in American politics after that decade, and while it certainly is surprising that the film was made back then, it is much harder to imagine it getting made now. While Heaven’s Gate (1980) may have symbolized the end of auteur-controlled epics, Reds may be the final p...
With Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski. A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Warren Beatty
- 1981-12-25
In the midst of the Cold War, Warren Beatty set out to bring history to life with an epic tale of the Russian Revolution and the rise of the American Left. After an introduction at this year's 44th New York Film Festival, Beatty's Oscar gold shines through on REDS Silver Anniversary DVD.
Reds seems like what we'd now call Oscar bait, with its epic love triangle of powerhouse stars set amid the backdrop of a massive historic moment, but the details keep it far from that.
