REDS
Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 –  Oct 2006]
Director: Warren Beatty , Country: USA, Release: 1981, Runtime: 195

NYFF BLURB: The idea of a movie about an American communist produced by a major studio seemed at one time impossible—until Reds
went on to be nominated for twelve Oscars® and win three, including one
for director (and star, producer and co-writer, Warren Beatty). This
glorious epic, photographed by the incomparable Vittorio Storaro, is an
overwhelming big-screen experience shown in a sparkling new 35mm print
on the 25th anniversary of its release.

The story of journalist
John Reed (Beatty) and his love affair with political activist Louise
Bryant (Diane Keaton), set against the background of World War I and
the Bolshevik Revolution, Reds
brilliantly captures the sense of an old world dying while an exciting
new one is trying to be born. With a star-studded cast including Jack
Nicholson as Eugene O’Neill, Maureen Stapleton (Oscar® for Best
Supporting Actress) as Emma Goldman, and the late novelist Jerzy
Kosinski as the Soviet official Zinoviev, as well as a host of real
life “witnesses” to history.

Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.