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Oct 17, 2006 · It took only 25 more years for Beatty to decide he was ready to do press for the movie. The occasion — speaking of a long wait — was the film’s first-time-ever release on DVD (see review ...
Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty, about the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the October Revolution in Russia in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World. Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack ...
Jan 29, 2022 · He was larger than life. Dianne interviews Robert Rosenstone, the historical consultant on Warren Beatty's Reds, probing his ideas about film and history. Those ideas changed dramatically for Rosenstone after Reds, as he reveals. He now sees fiction as sometimes revealing more truths, especially through film.
- Bugsy (1991) Director: Barry Levinson. Writer: James Toback. Starring Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley. Beatty let others handle the directing and writing on this film and that perhaps freed him up to do his most acclaimed work as an actor.
- Reds (1981) Director: Warren Beatty. Writers: Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths. Starring Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Maureen Stapleton. Beatty once again did the unthinkable by earning four Oscar nominations as producer, director, writer, and star and would also have actors from his film nominated in all four of the acting categories for this biopic of John Reed.
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Director: Arthur Penn. Writers: David Newman, Robert Benton. Starring Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons. “Bonnie and Clyde” ushered in the revolution that would takeover American filmmaking in the seventies where darker more violent stories would become the norm in movies.
- Heaven Can Wait (1978) Directors: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry. Writers: Elaine May, Warren Beatty. Starring Julie Christie, Dyan Cannon, Jack Warden. Beatty earned four Oscar nominations as producer, co-director, co-writer and star of this comedy which also earned five additional nominations including Supporting Actor and Actress for Jack Warden and Dyan Cannon.
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- Red Hollywood
- Reds: End of The Revolution
Beatty‘s long-time passion project had been to take Reed’s larger-than-life story and turns it into a larger-than-life film. Using his star-power and probably lots of Beatty charm to secure funding, he packed it with an all-star team that’d make Oscar-baiters of today tremble. Behind the camera, he had legendary Italian cinematographer Vittorio Sto...
In many ways, Redsseems like what we’d now call “Oscar bait,” with its epic love triangle of powerhouse stars set amid the backdrop of a massive historic moment, but the details keep it far from that. The film deals with, in great detail, the conflicts within the American labor movement at the time of the Russian Revolution—the difference between t...
No one in 1981 could have imagined how ubiquitous neoliberal ideology would become in American politics after that decade, and while it certainly is surprising that the film was made back then, it is much harder to imagine it getting made now. While Heaven’s Gate (1980) may have symbolized the end of auteur-controlled epics, Reds may be the final p...
Dec 2, 2021 · By. Jim Poe. In 1981, Warren Beatty directed Reds, a retelling of John Reed’s classic firsthand account of the Russian Revolution. The film still stands up today as one of the greatest and most faithful depictions of revolutionary politics. “Trumpism,” our issue focusing on the global right, is out now. Subscribe to our print edition at a ...
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Aug 13, 2017 · But no movie caught the feral allure of living “outside of society” (to quote Patti Smith from the “Natural Born Killers” soundtrack) the way that “Bonnie and Clyde” did. Beatty and ...
