Karel Reisz
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Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker who was active in post–war Britain, and one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in 1950s and 1960s British cinema.
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Act Without Words I (2000)
A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.
Runtime: 16 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Sean Foley
The Deep Blue Sea (1994)
Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors alert her husband, who arrives at the flat only to find her fully recovered...
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Ian Holm | Colin Firth | Wojciech Pszoniak | Geraldine Somerville | Carmel McSharry
Everybody Wins (1990)
A seemingly good Samaritan hires a private detective to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a Connecticut town and finds the woman isn't everything she is pretending to be either.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Kathleen Wilhoite | Will Patton | Nick Nolte | Debra Winger | Judith Ivey
Sweet Dreams (1985)
Lange stunningly portrays Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country singer who died in a tragic plane crash.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Ed Harris | Jessica Lange | Ann Wedgeworth | David Clennon | James Staley
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to ...
Runtime: 124 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Emily Morgan | Jeremy Irons | Jeremy Irons | Meryl Streep | Hilton McRae
Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
Runtime: 126 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Anthony Zerbe | Nick Nolte | Richard Masur | Tuesday Weld | Michael Moriarty
The Gambler (1974)
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: James Caan | Lauren Hutton | Paul Sorvino | Morris Carnovsky | Jacqueline Brookes
Isadora (1968)
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Runtime: 131 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | James Fox | Jason Robards | John Fraser | Zvonimir Črnko
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | David Warner | Robert Stephens | Bernard Bresslaw | Irene Handl
Night Must Fall (1964)
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Sheila Hancock | Albert Finney | Michael Medwin | Mona Washbourne | Susan Hampshire
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
Stars: Shirley Anne Field | Albert Finney | Rachel Roberts | Norman Rossington | Hylda Baker
We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959)
Part of the British 'Free Cinema' movement, which included Lindsay Anderson's 'Every Day Except Christmas' (daily life at Covent Garden fruit/vegetable market) and 'O Dreamland' (a working-class trip to Margate amusements), and Reisz and Tony Richardson's 'Momma Don't Allow' (about a London jazz club) all made in the mid to late 1950s, before the three went on to direct features in the British 'new wave' ...
Runtime: 53 min.
Directed by: Karel Reisz
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Momma Don't Allow (1956)
A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.
Runtime: 22 min.
Directed by: Tony Richardson | Karel Reisz
Stars: Lonnie Donegan | Chris Barber | Ottilie Patterson