Reds

Director: Warren Beatty

1981 / 195min / 4K DCP

Beatty’s brawny historical drama about the life of John Reed, an American journalist who witnessed the Russian Revolution first-hand and chronicled it in his book Ten Days That Shook the World, clocks in at an imposing 195 minutes, but Allen’s dab-handed cutting keeps this epic of political ardor and fractious in-fighting scudding along at an extraordinary clip, giving scenes from the distant past the urgency and immediacy of right now. Featuring Beatty as Reed, a stacked cast including Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and cinematography by Vittorio Storaro at his most audacious, Reds is Hollywood at, in at least two senses of the word, its most radical.