Thoroughly disillusioned by the Vietnam War, John, a journalist (Michael Moriarty) Read More »
Tag Archives: Karel Reisz
Everybody Wins (1990) Karel Reisz, Debra Winger, Nick Nolte, Will Patton
A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) Read More »
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) Karel Reisz, David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens
Morgan Delt is a failed and irresponsible left-wing artist whose Communist parents Read More »
Isadora (1968) Karel Reisz, Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people’s ideas of ballet. Read More »
We Are the Lambeth Boys (1958) Karel Reisz, Jon Rollason, Tony Benson, Adrian Harding
Part of the British ‘Free Cinema’ movement, which included Lindsay Anderson’s ‘Every Day Except Christmas’ (daily life at Covent Garden fruit/vegetable market) Read More »
Sweet Dreams (1985) Karel Reisz, Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth
Patsy Cline was the first female solo artist to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Read More »
The Gambler (1974) Karel Reisz, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Crime, Drama
Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this he cannot stop gambling.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Karel Reisz, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Rachel Roberts, Drama, Romance
Arthur, one of Britain’s angry young men of the 1960s, is a hardworking factory worker who slaves all week at his mindless job for his modest wages. Read More »
Night Must Fall (1964) Karel Reisz, Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne, Crime, Thriller
Albert Finney stars in this second film version of Emlyn Williams thriller about an innocent looking but psychopathic killer named Danny. Danny is a Welsh hotel bellboy who commits an axe murder near the home of Mrs. Bramson (Mona Washbourne), a well-to-do widow.
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981) Karel Reisz, Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Drama, Romance
A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who’s engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her leave him after a short, but passionate affair. Anna and Mike, who play the characters of Sarah and Charles, go, during the shooting of the film, through a relationship that runs parallel to that of their characters.
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