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Reds: 25th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray] | ![Reds: 25th Anniversary Edition [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TM0K74Z1L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Warren Beatty
Actors: R.g. Armstrong, Roger Baldwin, Ramon Bieri, Phil Brown, Joseph Buloff
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 24920
Format: Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: PARBR119774
UPC: 097361197746
EAN: 0097361197746
ASIN: B000IOM0YC
Theatrical Release Date: 1981
Release Date: November 7, 2006
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Amazon.com Essential Video
Warren Beatty's lengthy 1981 drama about American Communist John Reed and his relationships with both the Russian Revolution and a writer named Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) is a compelling piece of little-known history told in a uniquely personal way. Beatty plays Reed as he did the title gangster in IBugsy/I and Senator in IBulworth/I, as a visionary likely to die before anyone fully recognizes the progressiveness of the vision, including those who are supposed to be on the same page. Jack Nicholson has an interesting part as fellow intellectual Eugene O'Neill, and the late author Jerzy Kosinski--himself a refugee from then-Soviet-controlled Poland--makes a strong impression as Reed's problematic Russian liaison. I--Tom Keogh/I
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 Politics aside... March 24, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a GREAT film -- a magnificient epic and a remarkable acheivement!!pAt least a 2-disc set, please -- although that may not happen (for political reasons) unless, or until, Warren ponies up his own $$$ to get a DVD out!!??
 USEFUL IDIOTS June 24, 2004
Steven Travers (CALIFORNIA)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
EXCERPTED FROM STEVEN TRAVERS' GOD'S COUNTRYpThe 1920s were a strange time. John Reed's Ten Days That Shook the World reached a large audience in the United States and internationally. Many wanted to know why an entire planet could be thrust into war. In an attempt to address that issue, some decided that nationalism, governmental agendas, realpolitik, racism, class warfare, capitalism, Democracy, and corporations in bed with politicians and militarists were to blame. pNationalism was part of it. German unification and Balkan nationalism played a role. Governmental agendas and realpolitik always have played a role in conflict. Since Communism addressed the concept of one world government and a world without borders, some concluded that Communism offered the answer to these problems.brRacism was never an original part of the war, but would emerge as an ugly by-product. The Turks unleashed an open can of worms resulting in ethnic cleansing and genocide pitting Christians against Muslims, Turks against Arabs, secular vs. religious. In Germany, an easy scapegoat began to emerge: The Jews. Lies began to spread that Jewish banking interests profited from the war. In the American South Jewish influence was an affront to their sensibilities. The Ku Klux Klan rose again after a period of dormancy. The KKK's mandate pitted them against a worldwide Jewish conspiracy somehow in league with Papal domination. They said Catholics pledge allegiance not to the U.S., but to the Vatican. But few Catholics and fewer Jews lived in the South. Many blacks did. They were becoming a more prominent segment of society. Blacks were emerging as professional athletes in the Negro baseball leagues, and as musicians in the jazz world. As they asserted themselves, this infuriated the white underclass.brBut the most pernicious thing that emerged out of World War I were Westerners who believed that the war had occurred because of the failure of capitalism, Democracy, and corporations who were in bed with politicians and militarists. When Reed's book came out, a segment of society allowed themselves to believe that the new political system in Russia should be given a chance. Communism became the answer to society's many problems, including racism and poverty. The failure of Communism, already evident by 1920, was not exposed to the world. Reed either chose not to write about the thousands and thousands of famine victims, the secret police, the crackdowns and forced marches, the banishments, assassinations and disappearances, or he was controlled by the hierarchy, and not allowed to see it. He probably did not want to see it. He had found his story and he was going to stick to it. The great failure of the free press, of governments and political figures, of humanists and truth-seekers, was the failure to pin Russia - Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, and the rest of them - down before they became too powerful. To expose them for what they were.pSTEVEN TRAVERSbrAUTHOR OF BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMANbr...
A film as novel April 20, 2004
G. A. Readman (London)
There is only one way of watching this film; it has to be watched as if one were reading a novel. What unfolds, however, is a love story told in terms of tense relationships. The story becomes increasingly absorbing with every passing minute.pSublime!
Second Only to "Schindler's List" March 11, 2004
Michael Raines (Dallas, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Of the wide-release, narrative, political films made in the second half of the 20th century, surely "Reds" ranks as one of the best. "The Manchurian Candidate," "All the President's Men," "The Candidate," and "Sweet Bird of Youth" are all interesting mixtures of fact and fiction that actually pale next to Beatty's gutsy work. Even Oliver Stone's work on historical situations and figures, "Platoon," "Salvador," "JFK," and "Nixon," seems--as fine as it is--too slick and slightly impersonal compared to the political vigor and sexual dynamics explored in this bio-pic of Jack Reed, Eugene O'Neill and Louise Bryant. The depths of feeling and intelligence in this film, despite your feelings about Communism, can make you glad to be alive. Thank you, Warren Beatty, for giving this story to the world in such a powerful and even-handed way. I can't wait until this movie is available on DVD. Hopefully, Warren will add a commentary track or two w/Jack and Diane, of course.
 Spiteful and small and important November 5, 2003
Tom Blair (Perkiomenville, PA USA)
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
pbrThis movie has an awful lot of chutzpah, but does not go so far as to try to glamorize communism - at least not as it developed in the early Soviet. pBut communism was a hideous and genocidal ideology. And Warren Beatty needed to justify John Reed's (clearly Beatty's alter ego) attachment to it. So he gave Reed something to hate - namely his parents.pCommunism was as much about hatred as it was about ideology. This movie unintentionally shows that. The movie treats Reed's parents in a gratuitously ugly manner. I guess Beatty thinks that if you mock the people you hate - they somehow deserve it.pI'm glad this movie was made, because this imaginary autobiography by Warren Beatty's could have been written by a whole class of people in the baby boom generation. It does not hide the hatred at its core. That's a good thing to have as part of the historical record. pIf he matures well, Warren Beatty will one day be embarrassed by this movie he made.
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