I wrote my lengthy and incoherent review months back, which you can still find in the archives.
As perks with my new job, I get free shit...and I got the new REDS DVD as part of the gig.
With the nicely, and refreshingly remastered transfer, I forgot how beyond the performances and, unbelievably, Beatty's docu-drama narrative, its DP Vittorio Storaro that made this fucker work. When watching his work on the Russian Revolution, the snows of Finland, the sands of Africa, and the buorgeosis of the NYC intelligentsia of the turn of the century.....he so deserved the Cinematography Oscar. To think, he claims that he shot more feet of footage for REDS than he did for his other "epic" movie, APOCALYPSE NOW.
