Film
Reds
- 7PM
Warren Beatty won the Oscar for Best Director for this masterpiece—an epic spanning half a decade and two continents. Reds tells the true story of the lives and loves of journalist John Reed (Beatty) and his wife, the writer Louise Bryant (Keaton) as they move from the Pacific Northwest to Bohemian New York, Provincetown, and Russia on the eve of the 1917 Revolution. Along the way they befriend—and sometimes seduce—major figures of their era, including Emma Goldman (Maureen Stapleton in an Oscar-winning performance) and Eugene O’Neill (Nicholson). Featuring a rare film score by Stephen Sondheim, Oscar-winning cinematography from Vittaro Storaro, and interviews with many of the real life people who knew Reed and Bryant, Reds is a complicated, conflicted, deeply-felt tribute to the utopian dreams of the early 20th-century—including those that helped birth the Method itself—and is fueled by great performances steeped in the American adaptations of Stanislavski.
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