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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 3 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 3, 2006
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton & Jack Nicholson | |
Performer: | Maureen Stapleton, Edward Herrmann, Nicolas Coster, Gene Hackman, William Daniels & Paul Sorvino | |
Featured: | Jerzy Kosinski | |
Directed by | Warren Beatty | |
Edited by | Craig McKay | |
Screenwriting by | Trevor Griffiths & Warren Beatty | |
Composition by | Dave Grusin & Stephen Sondheim | |
Director of Photography: | Vittorio Storaro |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1981 -
Best Cinematography: Vittorio Storaro
Academy Awards 1981 -
Best Director: Warren Beatty
Academy Awards 1981 -
Best Supporting Actress: Maureen Stapleton
Entertainment Reviews:
There is plenty to admire here....It takes a certain gumption to make a three-hour Hollywood epic centered on the Russian revolution.
Sight and Sound
Rating: 4/4 --
Vittorio Storaro, who won an Oscar for his cinematography, keeps the long film moving at a healthy pace, mixing static shots with subtle camera movement, never showing off or detracting from the story.
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Arizona Daily Star
Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 DVDs Of The Year -- [T]he movie has only increased in power and relevance.
Entertainment Weekly
Warren Beatty doesn't manage to take control of his project, taking history through the path of information or melodrama. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Beatty, who produced, directed, helped to write and starred in this impressive work, may be forgiven for not having the heart to cut it.
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The Nation
Rating: 2.5/5 --
Despite its impeccable credentials, Reds is an overlong, often boring epic that can't decide where to focus the story.
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The Film Yap
If no one will learn much about politics from this film, Beatty has nonetheless put the fire of two burning lives in it. There is plenty in it about the risks that commitment entails, but it is about commitment.
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The New Republic
Product Description:
Riding high after the box office success of SHAMPOO and HEAVEN CAN WAIT, Warren Beatty used his seemingly limitless power to write, produce, direct, and star in this epic historical romance. The film recounts a particularly eventful period in the life of notorious American communist John Reed (Beatty), who journeyed to Russia to witness the Bolshevik Revolution firsthand. Before that, he met the already wed Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) in Portland in 1915. However, they shared such a mutual attraction for words, and each other, that soon Bryant was living with Reed in New York City. It was here where they befriended some of the early 20th Century's most recognizable faces: Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson), Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton), Max Eastman (Richard Herrmann), and Horace Whigham (George Plimpton). Yet Reed's commitment to his craft caused an endless friction in the relationship, until Louise found her own journalistic voice, leading the couple to Russia at a crucial moment in history. But just when they appeared to have come to a perfect place in their relationship, tragedy struck.
REDS is one of the last vestiges of early Hollywood, a broad, sweeping spectacle that is simultaneously thought provoking and unabashedly entertaining. Beatty inserts fascinating interviews with actual participants from that earlier era throughout the film to provide even more context and insight. At a time when Ronald Reagan had just become the president of the United States, Beatty's sympathetic portrait of notorious American communist John Reed seemed even more daring. Yet, as it continues to age, the film only continues to grow in relevance, assuring its rightful place at the top of the Hollywood canon.
REDS is one of the last vestiges of early Hollywood, a broad, sweeping spectacle that is simultaneously thought provoking and unabashedly entertaining. Beatty inserts fascinating interviews with actual participants from that earlier era throughout the film to provide even more context and insight. At a time when Ronald Reagan had just become the president of the United States, Beatty's sympathetic portrait of notorious American communist John Reed seemed even more daring. Yet, as it continues to age, the film only continues to grow in relevance, assuring its rightful place at the top of the Hollywood canon.
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