Reds (1981)
Country: US
Technical: col 196m
Director: Warren Beatty
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Nicholson
Synopsis:
A thoroughly researched portrait of the Russian Revolution from the perspective of the American journalists and intellectuals who witnessed it, partly filmed as talking heads documentary, with actors playing the real life participants.
Review:
Beatty's labour of love about the U.S. socialist John Reed could not have been made at a more challenging time commercially, being the beginning of the Reagan era. The gambit paid off critically, however, and it is a magnificently staged piece of historiography, albeit an exhausting one.
Country: US
Technical: col 196m
Director: Warren Beatty
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Nicholson
Synopsis:
A thoroughly researched portrait of the Russian Revolution from the perspective of the American journalists and intellectuals who witnessed it, partly filmed as talking heads documentary, with actors playing the real life participants.
Review:
Beatty's labour of love about the U.S. socialist John Reed could not have been made at a more challenging time commercially, being the beginning of the Reagan era. The gambit paid off critically, however, and it is a magnificently staged piece of historiography, albeit an exhausting one.
Country: US
Technical: col 196m
Director: Warren Beatty
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Maureen Stapleton, Jack Nicholson
Synopsis:
A thoroughly researched portrait of the Russian Revolution from the perspective of the American journalists and intellectuals who witnessed it, partly filmed as talking heads documentary, with actors playing the real life participants.
Review:
Beatty's labour of love about the U.S. socialist John Reed could not have been made at a more challenging time commercially, being the beginning of the Reagan era. The gambit paid off critically, however, and it is a magnificently staged piece of historiography, albeit an exhausting one.