Better red than dead
(12/08/05 5:00am)
A bold cinematic statement of rebellion, Warren Beatty's 1981 Hollywood masterpiece Reds challenges mainstream political thought on every level. The winner of three Oscars and nominee for nine more, the film perhaps would have made a more indelible mark on the Academy were it not for the release of bourgeois flock Chariots of Fire and On Golden Pond that very same year. Yet awards do not make the movie; Reds stands out on its own merits.