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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG
Release Date: 7-NOV-2006
Media Type: Blu-Ray
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #13922 in DVD
- Brand: WARREN,BETTY
- Released on: 2008-06-03
- Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
- Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of discs: 2
- Formats: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Original language: English
- Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
- Dimensions: .25 pounds
- Running time: 194 minutes
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117 of 127 people found a following examination helpful.
By Arnie Bernstein
Warren Beatty pulls off a formidable charge in "Reds." He's got to juggle several epic stories, including a arise of a American left in a early 20th century, a Russian Revolution, and a personal story of dual romantics in a attribute charged by passion both romantic and political.
Any of these story threads presents a formidable charge for a filmmaker and Beatty weaves his multilayered story together with skill. He pays tighten courtesy to detail, gives us a crowd of chronological characters and events, and mixes his story revelation with a difference of genuine people. Beatty buttresses his scenes with deceptively elementary "talking heads." These "witnesses" yield a genuine credentials to a John Reed/Louise Bryant story of "Reds," giving viewers a good education in a passions of a era. The courtesy to small sum (Reed bringing Bryant lilies, a consistent word "There's a cab waiting," etc.) yield a abounding mural of dual flighty tellurian beings.
Beyond a personal, Beatty knows how to hoop epic shade drama. The rousing montage that leads adult to a overpower of Russian supervision is wealthy and envigorating. Don't be cheated thought; this is not a "pro-Bolshevik" film by any good widen of a imagination. Reed's dissillusionment with a Soviet complement is portrayed in painful detail. Emma Goldman's story, a unequivocally good story in and of itself, gives another indicate of viewpoint to a problem ardent people have when holding on ruling authorities and amicable mores.
The performances are uniformally excellent. Beatty and Keaton are good matched and there's copiousness of gems in a ancillary roles. Standouts embody Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neil, Maureen Stapelton as Emma Goldman, Edward Herrmann as Max Eastman, author Jerzy Kosinski as Soviet proxy Grigory Zinoviev and Paul Sorvino as Louis Fraina.
I adore "Reds." It's one of my favorite films. Be forewarned, however, we could be mislaid and confused by a myrad of events in this film if we don't know most about domestic story of a radical left in early 20th Century America or a comrade Revolution and a aftermath. On a other hand, if you're intrigued by a film you'll find yourself adult to your eyeballs during a library reading about a loyal events and genuine people who desirous this film.
133 of 147 people found a following examination helpful.
By Barron Laycock
For those of us who conclude cinema that both perform and educate, Warren Beatty's vastly underrated magnum opus "Reds" is a smashing instance of how good a dual can be combined. Although it did not attain during a box office, this pretentious philharmonic concerning a impasse of an American insubordinate contributor in a comrade array is a superb movie, and also facilities Warren Beatty in a pivotal purpose of John Reed, an American publisher covering Soviet affairs for a on-going American insubordinate biography called "The Masses" who found his approach into a array of critical roles in a Soviet array and a regime that followed. Also found here is a generally noted opening by Diane Keaton as a companion, adore seductiveness and protégé of Reed's who also served in a accumulation of roles in a new comrade regime shortly after a revolution.
This film is mostly formed on Reed's relocating autobiographical mural of his personal practice during a Oct array in his best offered book "Ten Days That Shook The World". The film opens by exploring Reed's attribute with Keaton's early feminist character, and chronicles their expansion and expansion toward a insubordinate viewpoint and an contingent joining to domestic broadcasting that took them to a streets of Moscow in a days only preceding a Oct revolution. Also prominently featured in a film is Jack Nicholson as Reed's egghead friend, writer and playwright Eugene O'Neil. This is a utterly entertaining, sophisticated, and historically accurate bid to uncover America's possess cheating with unionism, socialism and communism and a greeting of some-more regressive army within a business and county community. The scrutiny of lifestyles and consistent doubt of tradition and consent make this a superb training apparatus by display how critically we can demeanour during a lessons of history. Enjoy!
33 of 37 people found a following examination helpful.
By John R Newton
Some films have a repute for being overpraised, and as a outcome - paradoxically - they turn underrated. This is one such film. Who cares that we now know communism unsuccessful in Russia? REDS is not meant to be a square of Soviet apologism. It is about dual people who take partial in sparkling and unconditional chronological events. we positively remonstrate with a politics of John Reed and Louise Bryant, though it doesn't matter. we enviousness a romanticism of a times they lived in (even if a romanticism isn't authentic), and that they were means to find, as one of a "witnesses" says during a finish of a movie, "things value vital and value failing for." The second half of a film - where we see a cost that contingency be paid for holding partial in story - provides good thespian change to a some-more nauseating viewpoint of insubordinate politics we see in a initial half. The cinematography is superb and a adore thesis by Stephen Sondheim is exquisite. As it is a film that should be seen on a large screen, I'm anticipating that REDS will be re-released for a 20th anniversary in 2001.
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