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Good evening! Thank you for joining me for tonight’s broadcast of Warren Beatty’s REDS. Hope you brought plenty of provisions for tonight’s film. It’s gonna be a long one! #LetsMovie #TCMParty
I forgot Stephen Sondheim contributed additional music to REDS. He would work with Beatty again for DICK TRACY in 1990. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Part-documentary, part-biopic. REDS is a hybrid of genres, politics and romance. Truly an epic with depth. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
John Reed, the inspiration for REDS, fascinated Beatty. In REDS, we’ll see his lifetime from the moment he meets Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), but before then he was born into privilege and graduated from Harvard before entering journalism. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Bryant was a feminist journalist who wrote dispatches from Russia alongside Reed until his death. She had her own fascinating life and career after Reed, and I recommend you look up her story after the movie. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
"Profits." #LetsMovie #TCMParty
In his NYT review, Vincent Canby honed in on the more intimate scenes, calling them as stunning as the large-scale epic ones. These eye-catching moments when Louise falls for John are so simple yet elegantly presented.
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/04/movies/beatty-s-reds-with-diane-keaton.html #LetsMovie #TCMParty
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/04/movies/beatty-s-reds-with-diane-keaton.html #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Some of the "witnesses" in REDS include Roger Baldwin, Henry Miller, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Scott Nearing, Isaac Don Levine, Rebecca West, Will Durant, George Seldes and George Jessel. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/reds/
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#LetsMovie #TCMParty
I adore Maureen Stapleton's performance as Emma Goldman, and she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for it! It's one of three Oscars REDS won that night. We'll see more of her later on. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
"What as?" "Well, it's almost Thanksgiving. You could go as a turkey." #LetsMovie #TCMParty
I know people like to complain about the movie's length but come on, there's so much goodness in scenes like this. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
And this. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
When Variety reviewed REDS, they were less enthused by the movie, calling it “too ponderous.” https://variety.com/1980/film/reviews/reds-1200424896/ #LetsMovie #TCMParty
"Let's go write somewhere we want to write." #LetsMovie #TCMParty
I miss Provincetown. I love Vittorio Storaro's warm cinematography here. Makes it all look like a dream. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Vittorio Storaro went on to win an Oscar for his work on REDS. He won his other two Oscars for APOCALYPSE NOW and THE LAST EMPEROR. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
"If you were mine, I wouldn't share you with anybody or anything. It'd be just you and me. We'd be the center of it all. I know it would feel a lot more like love than being left alone with your work." #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Nicholson is so devastatingly good as Eugene O'Neill. REDS had nominations in all four acting categories: Beatty for Best Actor, Keaton for Best Actress, Nicholson for Best Supporting Actor but only Stapleton would win in the Best Supporting Actress category. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Here's the moment Beatty won the Oscar for Best Director. He was sitting next to Keaton and Nicolson, both of whom he thanked. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Diane Keaton talked about her experience of working on REDS at Beatty's AFI tribute: #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Why is nearly everyone charmed by Warren Beatty?
Keaton: “He is curious about everyone. He is so seductive in that regard. He makes you feel like you are the only one, the person that matters; that you are just absolutely fascinating, you know?” https://variety.com/2016/film/news/diane-keaton-warren-beatty-sexy-mysterious-1201907614/ #LetsMovie
Keaton: “He is curious about everyone. He is so seductive in that regard. He makes you feel like you are the only one, the person that matters; that you are just absolutely fascinating, you know?” https://variety.com/2016/film/news/diane-keaton-warren-beatty-sexy-mysterious-1201907614/ #LetsMovie
These two witnesses used to...get very different letters than I'm getting now. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
This reminds me, my REDS poster probably one of my favorite NYCC finds. #LetsMovie #TCMParty https://twitter.com/mcastimovies/status/1190837765690318850?s=20
Quick aside: Last year, I also toured Eugene O’Neill’s boyhood home, Monte Cristo Cottage in Connecticut, the setting for his play “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” as part of the @ONeill_Center’s National Critics Institute. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
"If you adjust for inflation, Reds would cost about $91 million. And it’s the last movie with an intermission — it could only play once a night, so immediately, your gross is halved." Beatty to @MarkHarrisNYC for @ew in 2006. https://ew.com/article/2006/10/17/warren-beatty-breaks-his-long-silence-about-reds/ #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Although Beatty had wanted to work on REDS since the ‘70s, the film didn’t come out until the dawn of the Reagan Era. Pretty bold, if I do say so. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
I do love that there are so many domestic scenes in this big historical movie. Can't say there's many of those in other epics. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
TFW Reed denounces the executive committee for calling the "capitalist police" to throw out dissenters. 
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#LetsMovie #TCMParty
Keaton has so many great moments in REDS. Her performance is so layered, conflicted yet headstrong. A perfect match for her co-star's vulnerable and impassioned acting. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
After REDS, be sure to check out this epic @VanityFair piece on its making. It was an intense process that's an epic of its own: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2006/03/reds200603 #LetsMovie #TCMParty
I know I used "epic" more than once in the previous tweet. I'll probably use it again before the movie is over. 
"Beatty plays Reed but does not beatify him: He permits the silliness and boyishness to coexist with the self-conscious historical mission." - Roger Ebert, 1981 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/reds-1981 #LetsMovie #TCMParty
I haven't talked much about Shirley Russell's costume designs, but it's pretty marvelous to see how many she created to outfit so many extras and represent different countries, classes and situations. Russell also earned an Oscar nomination for REDS. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Gene Hackman is only in a few scenes of REDS as a favor to Beatty for his solo directorial debut (he previously co-directed HEAVEN CAN WAIT w/ Buck Henry). Hackman co-starred with Beatty in BONNIE AND CLYDE & LILITH, both of which showed earlier today on @tcm #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Heads up: Beatty's about to have his moment of action #LetsMovie #TCMParty
REDS is actually just about two people who really know how to look at each other. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Am I wrong? #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Nah, I'm right. And I feel like we've been waiting this whole movie for this moment. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
I know, they didn't last as a couple, but I love that this is the art they made while they were together. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Sadly, Bryant and Reed's reunion is short-lived. No, I'm never ready for this scene either. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Another tearjerker: Beatty's speech when accepting the Thalberg award, which he accepted while his wife Annette Bening was very pregnant with their 4th child. Although Nicholson gets some laughs at the expense of his REDS director. #LetsMovie #TCMParty
Thank you all for joining me for REDS tonight! I'm so glad to hear that so many of you also like this gem. I'm sticking around for BUGSY next but will be not be tweeting through it. Enjoy the movie! #LetsMovie #TCMParty
