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4 December 1981 (USA)
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Not since Gone With The Wind has there been a great romantic epic like it!
Plot:
A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars.
Another 18 wins
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21 nominations
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Warren Beatty, Steven Spielberg, Dino de Laurentiis: Governors Awards 2009
(From Alternative Film Guide. 15 November 2009, 4:33 PM, PST)
Shadows of Russia Schedule
(From Alternative Film Guide. 3 November 2009, 11:31 PM, PST)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 15 November 2009, 4:33 PM, PST)
Shadows of Russia Schedule
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Warren Beatty | ... | John Reed |
 | Diane Keaton | ... | Louise Bryant |
 | Edward Herrmann | ... | Max Eastman |
 | Jerzy Kosinski | ... | Grigory Zinoviev |
 | Jack Nicholson | ... | Eugene O'Neill |
 | Paul Sorvino | ... | Louis Fraina |
 | Maureen Stapleton | ... | Emma Goldman |
 | Nicolas Coster | ... | Paul Trullinger |
 | M. Emmet Walsh | ... | Speaker - Liberal Club |
| Ian Wolfe | ... | Mr. Partlow |
| Bessie Love | ... | Mrs. Partlow |
| MacIntyre Dixon | ... | Carl Walters |
| Pat Starr | ... | Helen Walters |
| Eleanor D. Wilson | ... | Mrs. Reed |
| Max Wright | ... | Floyd Dell |
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194 min
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Colour (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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USA:PG (certificate #26524) (re-rating after appeal) |
USA:R (original rating) |
Australia:M |
UK:15 (cut) |
Singapore:M18 |
Argentina:Atp |
Chile:TE |
Finland:K-16 |
Norway:12 |
Sweden:11
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The first film to use the ENR variable silver retention development process developed by Ernesto Novelli Rimi at Technicolor Rome. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro would go on to play with shades of color shooting Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) and Dick Tracy (1990).
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Factual errors: During the tram ride in Petrograd there is a modern traffic sign visible (a yellow line on red background: forbidden driving direction).
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: K&R: Part 3 (#1.21)" (2007)
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Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
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Warren Beatty's Reds follows only Gone With The Wind in my list of favourite films. This movie is both a love story, and a documentary. It educates the viewer not just on John Reed and his comrades, but on WWI era society in general.
This brilliant script, (which, like the writings of Jack Reed expresses his political feelings with the same poetic eloquence as his love poems to his wife Louise), is interspersed with commentary from Jack's contemporaries, who tell the history from their own unique perspectives. As the truth of what was going on in that community is such an illusive thing, the only way to tell this story accurately was to show the often completely opposite view points of what was going on as told by the people for whom this history is a first hand memory.
The acting in Reds is breath taking. Every member of this, extremely large, cast committed fully to their characters. One feels a true connection to even those characters who lurked in the background with only occasional lines. The most notable performances were by Beatty himself, (who's embodiment of Jack Reed was incredible), Diane Keaton, (who portrayed all the facets of Louise's personality with stunning realism), Jack Nickelson, (who delivers O'Neil's quick witted dialogue with an almost frightening cynicism), and Maureen Stapelton, (who conveyed an amazing strength as Emma Goldman). While these actors were the most prominently featured, all the actors delivered noteworthy performances as far as I'm concerned.
The political history covered in this movie is nothing if not vast. This is proof of Beatty's most impressive knowledge of history. This is a film I would recommend be shown in schools, as one the most in depth study of American communism on screen to date.
Reds is truly an inspiration, and should be seen by every actor, director, writer, liberal, film maker, history buff & movie lover! You will not be disappointed!