Reds (1981)

Recommended

USA
Feature Film/Feature Documentary
Director: Warren Beatty
Writers: Warren Beatty, Trevor Griffiths
Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro
Composer: Stephen Sondheim
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton

Beatty’s engrossing epic, following the life of journalist-turned-revolutionary, John Reed, during the 1910s in America and Russia, is a well-made and even-handed portrait of passionate people attempting, and generally failing, to bridge the horribly messy gap between ideals and cold, hard reality. Iain.Stott