Remembering Diane Keaton (1946-2025)

Diane Keaton’s second Academy Award nomination was for her powerhouse performance in this epic, directed by her then-partner Warren Beatty. Keaton, as writer Louise Bryant, is the emotional core of the film, balancing the character’s aspirations to be a ‘true writer’ with the conflicts that come with being an American sympathetic with socialism in the early 20th century.

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

“…A large, remarkably rich, romantic film that dramatizes – in a way that no other commercial movie in my memory has ever done – the excitement of being young, idealistic and foolish in a time when everything still seemed possible.” ~ Vincent Canby, The New York Times

Screening 2/8 + 2/15

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