Reds 12/11/21
Paramount Viacom CBS
Blu-ray + Digital
Warren Beatty’s show is a beautiful, one of a kind epic. Never mind that it is sharply critical of John Reed, an American who was buried in the Kremlin — Hollywood never approached the title subject directly: (whisper) Commies. Beatty’s production idiosyncrisies raised eyebrows but his picture is quite an achievement in filmic storytelling, cleverly accessing a political scene sixty years gone through testimony by notables that lived it. Beatty and Diane Keaton provide the romantic fireworks that make the film commercially viable, amid all the revolutionary fervor and political chaos. Co-starring Jack Nicholson and Maureen Stapleton. On Blu-ray + Digital Code from Paramount Home Video.
12/11/21