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 MMI Movie Review: Reds
A poet and chronicler of strikes, war and revolution, Reed traveled to peasant uprisings lead by Pancho Villa in Mexico, strikes by silkworkers clubbed by the police in New Jersey and coal miners in gunned down by the National Guard in Colorado, and eventually traveled to Petrograd to witness firsthand the Bolshevik revolution in 191.
Reds deals with the period of Reed's life when he wrote for The Masses, a socialist magazine edited by Max Eastman.
Reds centers on the relationship between Bryant and Reed, an enduring friendship that began in 1915 and lasted until Reed's death in Russia in 1919.
www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/reds-ms-120787480.html   (500 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Movie star
A movie star is a celebrity who is well known for his or her starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures.
Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general.
In the days of early silents the names of the actors and actresses appearing in movies were not publicized or credited.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Movie-star   (908 words)

  
 Chicago Reader Movie Review
It only goes to show the risks you run when you try to make a movie that tells the truth politically and then limit this "truth" to a series of sound bites; sooner or later that form of TV abbreviation is going to bite you back.
A movie by a control freak that's slightly--and, it appears, deliberately--out of control, Bulworth is full of delirious risks, and that may be the most likable thing about it.
Because the movie begins with his nervous breakdown and forgoes flashbacks--summing up his past with a few framed photographs in his office--it never gives us any sustained sense of what provoked his personal crisis or what he was like beforehand.
www.chicagoreader.com /movies/archives/1998/0598/05228.html   (888 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Reds
For other uses see film (disambiguation) Film refers to the celluliod media on which movies are printed Film — also called movies, the cinema, the silver screen, moving pictures, photoplays, picture shows, flicks, or motion pictures, — is a field that encompasses motion pictures as an art form or as part of...
The movie won Academy Awards for: Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema.
This Academy Award was first given for movies made in 1948 when separate awards were given for fl-and-white and color movies.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Reds   (1224 words)

  
 Exiform: Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Jennifer Lopez, who has made some terrible movies recently, has finally found a role that works for her, as the ex-competitor who seeks a reason to continue dancing.
It seems unlikely that that accurately reflects Japan's view of dancing, and it would have been impossible to use that as a premise for a movie set in Illinois, so the director has settled for the American belief that ballroom dancing is slightly peculiar, and left it at that.
The main conflicts in the new version come from the suspicions of the wife (a character who was mostly absent from the 1996 version) and the conflicted feelings of the husband.
www.exiform.com /archives/000034.html   (1137 words)

  
 :: rogerebert.com :: Reds
The movie never succeeds in convincing us that the feuds between the American socialist parties were much more than personality conflicts and ego-bruisings, so audiences can hardly be expected to care which faction is "the" American party of the left.
The action in the movie takes Reed to Russia and back again to Portland, and off again with Louise Bryant (Keaton), and then there is a lengthy pause in Greenwich Village and time enough for Louise to have a sad little love affair with the morosely alcoholic playwright Eugene O'Neill (Jack Nicholson).
In REDS, understating his desire, apologizing for his passion, hanging around Louise, handing her a poem, throwing her out of his life, he is quieter but much more passionate than in the overwrought THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19810101/REVIEWS/101010361/1023   (1004 words)

  
 John Reed (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the husband of the writer and feminist Louise Bryant and was the subject of a 1981 movie Reds.
Reed was born in 1887 in Portland, Oregon.
The film Reds starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, and Jack Nicholson, was based on his life and won several Academy Awards.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Reed_(journalist)   (1914 words)

  
 Diane Keaton
A group of movies that one does not equate to Diane Keaton is The Godfather (1972) where she played the character Kay Adams who is the girlfriend of Don Vito's (Marlon Brando) youngest son.
This movie raised a lot of eyebrows at the time it was released but is a classic standard today.
Diane was at one time involved with Warren Beatty and she appeared in his movie REDS (1981), this movie was not a huge success but is well worth seeing.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/movie_stars/112399   (466 words)

  
 MIM Movie Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Reds Paramount Pictures, 1981 Warren Beatty & Diane Keaton 195 minutes This is a romance movie centered on John Reed and Louise Bryant that is a big plus for the communist movement because of its highly useful historical background.
While MIM has not bothered to check every historical detail of the film, the main issues discussed in the film as the background to the love story are all real.
"Reds" is a great gift to the communist movement and we heartily recommend it for entertainment.
www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/movies/review.php?f=short/Reds.txt   (311 words)

  
 Eastern Europe: History and Politics: Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley
Presents a found footage essay featuring home movies and photographs of the philosopher Istvan Bibo, who served time in prison for supplying Jews with fake documents during the Holocaust and was one of the leaders of the 1956 Hungarian revolution.
As the illusions of this Jewish Hungarian family are eroded step-by-step, their happy, banal moments are framed against a recitation of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary during the Nazi era and descriptions of the deportation of Hungarian Jews.
From Red Square to the Budapest Ghetto, the fall of the Reichstag to Yalta and the Nuremberg trials, Evgueni Khaldei chronicled many of the world's most important events with an artist's eye and a journalist's timing.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/easterneurope.html   (14233 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Reds (1981) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The movie opens by exploring Reed's relationship with Keaton's early feminist character, and chronicles their growth and evolution toward a socialist perspective and an eventual commitment to political journalism that took them to the streets of Moscow in the days just preceding the October revolution.
The movie is an ambitious one - it shows a strong affinity and feel for the chaotic political times of the WW I era.
In REDS their appearances are sometimes frustrating curtailed, in order, of course, to serve the dramatic arc of the movie as a whole.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300214028?v=glance   (1912 words)

  
 Reason magazine -- June 2000, Hollywood's Missing Movies by Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley
Ayn Rand, then a Hollywood screenwriter and one of the few in the movie community who had actually lived under communism, was to point out that, in their zeal to provide artistic lend-lease, American Communist screenwriters went to extraordinary and absurd lengths.
In such wartime movies as North Star and Song of Russia (both 1943), they portrayed the USSR as a land of joyous, well-fed workers who loved their masters.
Odd as it may seem, one of the few Hollywood movies that does depict violence in communist countries on screen is a Disney film.
reason.com /0006/fe.kb.hollywoods.shtml   (3998 words)

  
 Modamag | Budget Busters: Losing Money in Hollywood Movies
If there is one thing to learn from that fiasco it might be that, "Movie makers never learn." Movie fiascoes are not done on purpose.
Some movies are made and are even never released in order to save money.
When you consider they actually put together some of the TV episodes of Spider-Man and put that out as a movie, you have to wonder how bad was this version.
www.modamag.com /budgetbusters.htm   (855 words)

  
 Reds (1981)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Reds (1981) Dir: Warren Beatty Ah, a new decade, a new boyfriend (Beatty) and an epic movie to star in!
Reds concerns itself with the life of John Reed, radical journalist who went through the Russian revolution and lived to tell about it (though not for too long) in his famous book Ten Days that Shook the World.
Not the runaway hit it was supposed to be, but still a fascinating movie with some great performances and striking cinematography.
french.imdb.com /title/tt0082979   (404 words)

  
 Big Reds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Big is a 1988 comedy film which tells the story of a teenaged boy who isaged to adulthood by a magical fortune telling machine.
The movie was written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, and directed by Penny Marshall.
It was adapted by Warren Beatty, Peter S. Feibleman (uncredited), TrevorGriffiths, Elaine May (uncredited) and Jeremy Pikser from Reed's memoir.
www.daikaiju.com /edge/35657-big%20reds.html   (355 words)

  
 Reds movie info - dvds - Warren Beatty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution.
Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton deliver a surpassing performance in the Oscar winning movie "Reds."It follows the love affair of journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant as they support-and are quite active in- the wave of Communism in Russia.
The on-again-off-again relationship between the two main characters is represented by the movie's theme song "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard." It is definitely the movie of an era not so long ago, and can captivate the hearts and emotions of...
www.mooviees.com /3704-reds/movie   (494 words)

  
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 Reds - Reviews on RateItAll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
"Reds" (1981) is a drama starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.
It's one of the few movies to do justice to that time in history, wether you agree with Beatty's veiw or not.
I rate it high as a drama movie and realistic in portraying the Soviet Union.
www.rateitall.com /i-16414-reds.aspx   (165 words)

  
 Discovering John Reed by Howard Zinn excerpted from the book Howard Zinn on History
The appearance in 1981 of a Hollywood movie, Reds, in which the main character is a Communist, the journalist John Reed, and is sympathetically portrayed, was startling.
It was one of many pieces of evidence that the nation had moved a critical distance away from the Communist hysteria of the Fifties.
If even a tiny fraction of these are led thereby to think about war and injustice, art and commitment, about enlarging friendship beyond national boundaries for the possibility of a better world, that is a huge accomplishment for one brief, intensely-lived life.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Zinn/John_Reed_HZOH.html   (2160 words)

  
 Reds -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Reds is a 1981 (A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement) movie starring (additional info and facts about Warren Beatty) Warren Beatty and (additional info and facts about Diane Keaton) Diane Keaton.
The movie won (An annual award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance) Academy Awards for:
According to the (A periodic paperback publication) magazine (additional info and facts about Total Film) Total Film in 2004, this was the 4th "dumbest decision in movie history": the extras duly went on (A group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions) strike, demanding higher (Something that remunerates) wages.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Re/Reds.htm   (357 words)

  
 reds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
From The Movie Guide: "Produced, directed, and cowritten by Warren Beatty, who also stars as radical journalist John Reed, REDS is a sprawling yet highly personal epic.
Keaton fails to bring the necessary depth to her portrayal and relies too much on her familiar, quirky film persona; but Beatty gives a highly nuanced, appropriately energized performance, and the supporting players are uniformly excellent.
In presenting an up-close, personal look at the lives of its famous figures --- particularly Reed and Bryant in their love affair and marriage --- the film sometimes gives short shrift to the world-shaking events that are its unique subject.
yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/r/reds.html   (397 words)

  
 Living My Life, Vol 1 - RadioDirectory.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Emma Goldman was one of America's first feminists and a contemporary of John Reed, the guy made famous by Warren Beatty's 1981 movie "Reds".
If you've seen the movie and you want to get beyond the Hollywood gloss or if you want to understand what motivated the early radicals then read this book.
The story starts with Emma as a young immigrant in NYC, which is a vivid first-hand account of the radical battles of the late 19th century in the USA; abortion, contraception, housing, workers' rights.
www.radiodirectory.com /ukstoreproducts0486225437.html   (215 words)

  
 Turner Classic Movies This Month Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In 1981, with the Reagan Era dawning, the American movie-going public might have been by and large disinclined to embrace an epic-length historical romance centered on two prominent radical socialists of the 1910s.
The timing ultimately proved less than precipitous for Warren Beatty, who had nurtured the concept since the early 1970s, and whose belief in the project was sufficient to get the green light from the powers that be at Paramount.
The critical praise garnered by the film was considerable, however, and it stands as a work of considerable sweep and scope with a realistic and, at times, painfully honest love story at its core.
www.turnerclassicmovies.com /ThisMonth/Article/0,,87926,00.html   (1122 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Reds (1981): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
For those of us who appreciate movies that both entertain and educate, Warren Beatty's vastly underrated magnum opus "Reds" is a wonderful example of how well the two can be combined.
In Reds, director-actor Beatty creates for himself in John Reed a positive role--a man who is way ahead of his time, not just politically but personally.
The best part of the movie was seeing, in plain fl and white, and so elegantly photographed, actual men and women who were alive before WWI and who (mostly) remembered Bryant and Reed or other Village intellectuals.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JKO9   (1910 words)

  
 MovieMaker Magazine | HOP Volume 1, Issue #8 | Longtime David Lynch producer/editor Mary Sweeney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
While films such as Wild at Heart, Lost Highway and Twin Peaks could only be constructed from the mind of David Lynch, you'd be hard pressed to find an editor more capable of bringing the complexities of his vision to the screen than Mary Sweeney.
Beginning her career as an apprentice sound editor on Reds, Sweeney moved on to work as an assistant editor on Lynch's Blue Velvet.
Here, she talks with MM about her longtime collaboration with one of the world's most original directors, as well as balancing the roles of editor and producer and the struggles of being a woman in what many still see as a man's industry.
www.moviemaker.com /hop/08/editing.html   (1189 words)

  
 MusicSearcher.com: Stephen Sondheim | Reds (1981 Film)
Even though this isn't the place to say it, I loved the movie "Reds", tho' it's not without flaws, and the soundtrack is just as admirable.
However, it's probably most enjoyable to those who admire the movie; I mean, it's not by any mean "easy listening", except for certain tracks.
To say that the film was sympathetic to Communism is to miss the point entirely--it wasn't, in fact, it was quite complex in its dealings with John Reed's love and eventual disillusion with the Party.
www.musicsearcher.com /Items/793018220323/Reviews   (326 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Movies: We asked what you'd like on DVD and you fired back
Anyhow, dozens of other requests poured in, detailing hundreds of injustices — that is, movies and shows most wanted on DVD that didn't involve a trio of young witches and the assorted dudes in their lives.
More than 80 percent of U.S. households will have a DVD player by the end of this year, and as the format spreads, studios are digging deeper, says George Feltenstein, senior V.P. of marketing for Warner Home Video's classics catalogue.
"Reds" (1981): Paramount's Arkin says of Warren Beatty's Oscar-winner, "The issue for us is more about working with the filmmaker and the talent to make sure we have the most appropriate presentation.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/movies/2002219584_mostwanted27.html   (1747 words)

  
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 Directory - Arts: Movies: Titles: R: Reds
Reds  · Discussion of the film, with focus on the significance of references to Walt Whitman in the story.
The Austin Chronicle Movie Guide: Reds  · Brief review with links to cast information.
IMDb: Reds (1981)  · iweb · Plot summary, trailer, cast and crew information, and user comments.
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