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Karel Reisz - what members say

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning review by Baz from

“…What I’m Out For Is A Good Time…All The Rest Is Propaganda…” 26 March 2012
...d that is often overused, but in this case it genuinely applies. Directed by Karel Reisz in 1960, it was produced by Tony Richardson (who directed 'The Loneliness of Th... Read customer review

Isadora review by A customer from

Isadora - when she danced 12 July 2011
...id narrative out of Duncan's colourful life. In 'The French Lieutenant's Woman' Karel Reisz had the advantage of a very skilfully organised script by Harold Pinter, and th... Read customer review

Free Cinema review by Savage from London, England

An immensely valuable collection 30 June 2006
...lebrating: in almost any other country these people (Anderson, Tony Richardson, Karel Reisz, et al) would be hailed as artistic heroes, revolutionising a previously pretty... Read customer review

Karel Reisz - filmography

Everybody Wins on DVD (1989)
Starring: Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton
Director: Karel Reisz
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Things certainly aren’t easy for a jaded private detective on the weird streets of Connecticut, just ask down and out private eye Tom ‘O Toole. Hired by a mysterious woman convinced that a local, juvenile teen banged up on a murder charge is innocent, detective Tom ‘O Toole is suddenly sucked into ..read more »

49% from 20 members

Sweet Dreams on DVD (1986)
Starring: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, P.J. Soles
Director: Karel Reisz
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In Karel Reisz's SWEET DREAMS, Jessica Lange stars as Patsy Cline, the ill-fated country singer whose trembling, emotion packed renditions of 'Crazy', 'Sweet Dreams', and 'I Fall to Pieces', made her one the most enduring voices in all of American popular music. Starting out by performing more ..read more »

69% from 422 members

The French Lieutenant's Woman on DVD (1981)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern, Meryl Streep
Director: Karel Reisz
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
In this dramatic film, director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Harold Pinter adapt the complex romantic novel by John Fowles, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Set in 1867, Sarah Woodrough (Meryl Streep), a beautiful young woman, is condemned by society and driven into a deep melancholy because of her ..read more »

62% from 2,754 members

Dog Soldiers on DVD (1978)
Starring: Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty
Director: Karel Reisz
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In Karel Reisz's film, based on Robert Stone's novel Dog Soldiers, John Converse (Michael Moriarty), a Marine combat veteran, returns to Vietnam as a war correspondent. He is overwhelmed by the challenges that face him, and so he decides that in an insane world, it makes sense to to smuggle heroin ..read more »

57% from 172 members

The Gambler (1974)
Starring: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton
Director: Karel Reisz
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An English professor is a gambler whose habit becomes nightmarish when he loses a fortune he doesn't possess.

68% from 38 members
Currently unavailable

Isadora on DVD (1968)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, John Fraser, James Fox
Director: Karel Reisz
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A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet

58% from 72 members

Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment on DVD (1966)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, David Warner, Robert Stephens
Director: Karel Reisz
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In Karel Reisz's MORGAN: A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT, the wildly eccentric artist, Morgan, played with lunatic delight by David Warner, is driven over the edge when his ex-wife, Leonie (Vanessa Redgrave), with whom he is still smitten, announces that she plans to remarry. The focus of the film is ..read more »

60% from 392 members

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning on DVD (1960)
Starring: Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Hylda Baker
Director: Karel Reisz
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Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe's novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role. Director Karel Reisz draws on his work in ..read more »

71% from 5,113 members

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - Blu-ray (1960)
Starring: Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Hylda Baker
Director: Karel Reisz
Certificate:
Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe's novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role. Director Karel Reisz draws on his work in ..read more »

75% from 234 members

We Are The Lambeth Boys (1958)
Starring: Jon Rollason
Director: Karel Reisz
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Part of the "Free Cinema" movement, this documentary follows the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in the late 1950's.

69% from 30 members
Not available for rental

Free Cinema (3 discs) on DVD (1956)
Director: Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, Lorenza Mazzetti
Certificate:
A collection of Free Cinema films containing 16 short films on three discs. The term Free Cinema was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson, when he, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti screened a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre on 5 February 1956...read more »

70% from 180 members

Karel Reisz facts

5 most recent films

Everybody Wins - 2.5 stars
Sweet Dreams - 3.5 stars
The French Lieutenant's Woman - 3.0 stars
Dog Soldiers - 3.0 stars
The Gambler - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - 3.5 stars
Free Cinema - 3.5 stars
Sweet Dreams - 3.5 stars
The French Lieutenant's Woman - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Everybody Wins - 2.5 stars
The Gambler - 3.5 stars
We Are The Lambeth Boys - 3.5 stars
Dog Soldiers - 3.0 stars
Isadora - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Vanessa Redgrave - 3 times - show films
Nick Nolte - 3 times - show films
Hylda Baker - 2 times - show films
John Fraser - 2 times - show films
Frank Converse - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Lorenza Mazzetti - 2 times - show films
Tony Richardson - 2 times - show films