Reds

UPC: 097361197746

Studio: Paramount

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language]

Summary: Few filmmakers other than Warren Beatty would have had the courage and vision to fashion an epic film from the life of famed American Communist John Reed (who is the only US citizen buried in the Kremlin). The film is an effort to humanize a political movement that has previously been depicted on screen in a series of unsubtle and prejudicial broad strokes. The film begins in 1915, when Reed (Beatty) makes the acquaintance of married Portland journalist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). So persuasive is Reed's point of view--and so charismatic is Reed himself-- that Bryant kicks over the traces and joins Reed and his fellow radicals. Among the famous personages depicted herein are Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton), Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson) and Max Eastman (Richard Herrmann). The second half of this nearly-200-minute film skims through the years when Reed, now a Russian resident, becomes disillusioned by the harsh realities of Bolshevism. Despite the celebrity line-up of real-life "witnesses" to the events depicted in the film (ranging from novelist Henry Miller to comedian George Jessel!), historians took Reds to task for its oversimplification of events and its laundering of the notoriously promiscuous Louise Bryant. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Epic

Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Supporting Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Supporting Actress – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Cinematography – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – null Best Supporting Actress – null Best Director – null Best Screenplay – null Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Art Direction – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Costume Design – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Editing – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Supporting Actress – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – National Board of Review Best Director – National Board of Review Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – National Board of Review Best Picture – New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actor – National Board of Review Best Supporting Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Director – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Moti – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Supporting Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – Directors Guild of America

Features: Witness to Reds:
-The Rising
-Comrades
-Testimonials
-The March
-Revolution - Part 1
-Revolution - Part 2
Propaganda
New DVD trailer

Reds

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 11/07/2006

Audio: DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 195 Minutes

Sides: 2

Number of Discs: 2

Language(s) English,French,Spanish

Subtitles: English,French,Spanish

Lucia Bozzola

An achievement in epic storytelling and historical romance, Warren Beatty's Reds (1981) combines American Communist John Reed's experience of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath with the intimate relationship between Reed and Louise Bryant, his match in progressive thinking. Structured through the reminiscences of two dozen actual witnesses, from Henry Miller to George Jessel, the film meticulously recreates the culturally volatile World War I period, from the bourgeois Portland abandoned by Diane Keaton's Louise to the passionate Greenwich Village bohemia of Beatty's Reed, Maureen Stapleton's no-nonsense Emma Goldman, and Jack Nicholson's cynically romantic Eugene O'Neill. Reed's final reunion with lover/comrade Bryant poignantly reveals the personal cost of his political beliefs. Praised as an impressive accomplishment, regardless of its historical liberties, Reds earned 12 Oscar nominations, including Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor for Nicholson, and four for Beatty as producer, director, actor, and co-writer. One of the last vestiges of artistically ambitious 1970s "auteur" Hollywood, Reds won Oscars for Vittorio Storaro's cinematography, Stapleton's supporting performance, and Beatty's direction, but it lost Best Picture to Chariots of Fire. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Ramon Bieri  Actor 
Will Durant  Actor 
Ake Lindman  Actor 
Roger Sloman  Actor 
Joseph Buloff  Actor 
Stefan Gryff  Actor 
Christopher Malcolm  Actor 
Patsy Pollock  Actor 
Leigh Curran  Actor 
Eleanor D. Wilson  Actor 
Marion Dougherty  Actor 
R.G. Armstrong  Actor 
Noel Davis  Actor 
Gerald Hiken  Actor 
Shane Rimmer  Actor 
Nancy Foy  Actor 
Jerry Hardin  Actor 
George Plimpton  Actor 
Dolph Sweet  Actor 
Harry Ditson  Actor 
Max Wright  Actor 
Hamilton Fish III  Actor 
Roger Baldwin  Actor 
MacIntyre Dixon  Actor 
Jack Kehoe  Actor 
Tony Sibbald  Actor 
Rebecca West  Actor 
Dave King  Actor 
Jane Jenkins  Actor 
Brenda Currin  Actor 
Stuart Richman  Actor 
Jan Triska  Actor 
George Jessel  Actor 
Gretchen Rennell  Actor 
Arthur Mayer  Actor 
Phil Brown  Actor 
Kathryn Grody  Actor 
Adela Rogers St. John  Actor 
Norman Chancer  Actor 
Gene Hackman  Actor 
Jack O'Leary  Actor 
Pat Starr  Actor 
William Daniels  Actor 
Josef Sommer  Actor 
Art Shields  Actor 
Dede Allen  Executive Producer 
Dede Allen  Producer 
Warren Beatty  Director 
Warren Beatty  Producer 
Warren Beatty  Screenwriter 
Trevor Griffiths  Screenwriter 
Simon Relph  Executive Producer 
Simon Relph  Producer 
Stephen Sondheim  Composer (Music Score) 
Warren Beatty  Actor 
Diane Keaton  Actor 
Edward Herrmann  Actor 
Jerzy Kosinski  Actor 
Jack Nicholson  Actor 
Paul Sorvino  Actor 
Maureen Stapleton  Actor 
Nicolas Coster  Actor 
M. Emmet Walsh  Actor 
Ian Wolfe  Actor 
Bessie Love  Actor 

Country: USA