Reds (1981)

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10 Best Political Passion Projects
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"Oliver Stone has long been synonymous with political passion projects, but his latest film, W., may be his most ambitious effort yet, if only because of how quickly the thing came together and got made. Now the serio-comic biopic about our sitting president is about to hit theaters, less than ten months after anyone had heard of its inception, and it’s getting a number of favorable reviews, will possibly rule the box office this weekend, and could even garner an Oscar nomination for Josh Brolin, who portrays the man with the titular initial, George W. Bush. But not all political passion projects are quite as successful as W. is expected to be. Some such films have been banned, while some have simply failed to acquire an audience on more democratic grounds, whether in terms of box office, critical or awards recognition. Yet regardless of the reception of a political passion project, either at the time of release (or intended release) or decades later, it may be regarded as an achiev ... " [More]

Reds (1981, USA, Warren Beatty) ...
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"Reds and A Passage to India, released a few years, later represent the last of the old style Hollywood epics, before Gladiator and its decendants brought the genre back in vouge with faster editing and CGI effects. And Reds is a great way to go out. It has an intelligence rarely found in American films, expecting the audince to pay attention for three and a half hours to a complicated and esoteric subject that most people know little about. That subject is John Reed (Beatty) and his role in the early Communist movement in America. Reed is famed, as they tell you at the beginning of the film, as the only American to be buried in the Kremlin. He made early fame as a journalist, marrying feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). The film chronicles their personal relationship with Reed's increasing political activity, eventually leading his own faction in a break from the American Socalist Party, the writing of Reed's masterpiece, Ten Days that Shook the World and a truly epic act o ... " [More]

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