Drama · History · Romance
American
1981 · Directed by Warren Beatty · 195 min
Warren Beatty's three-hour epic follows the American journalist John Reed and the writer Louise Bryant through the radical politics, bohemian circles and world upheavals of the 1910s. Real people recall the period in interviews, and a love story runs through the history.
Why it matters in cinema history
A late flowering of the 1970s American auteur spirit and the classical epic, Reds applied David Lean-scale filmmaking to a subject Hollywood had long avoided: the American radical tradition.
Watch with intention
Watch it as two arguments running together: one about politics and history, and one about whether love and ambition can live in the same house.
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