Karel Reisz
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Karel Reisz (1926-1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker who was active in post-World War II Britain and one of the first realist strains in British cinema in the 1950s and 1960s.
Early life
Reisz was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia of Jewish descent. His father was a lawyer. He was a migrant who was one of the 669 people rescued by Sir Nicholas Winton.
He came to England in 1938, speaking almost no English, but he stifled his foreign accent as quickly as possible. He joined the Royal Air Force near the end of the war after attending Leighton Park School; his parents were killed at Auschwitz. Following his war service, he read Natural Sciences at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and began to write for film journals, including Sight and Sound. Sequence was co-founded by John Wilson and Gavin Lambert in 1947.
Personal life
Julia Coppard, Reisz's first wife, had three sons who were later divorced. Betsy Blair, Gene Kelly's former wife, married Reisz in 1963 and died before he died.
Career
Reisz was the founder of the Free Cinema documentary film movement. In 1953, his first textbook The Technique of Film Editing was published.
In the first Free Cinema exhibition seen at the National Film Theatre in February 1956, his first short film Momma Don't Allow (1955), co-written and co-directed with Tony Richardson, was included.
Every Day Except Christmas (1957) directed by Lindsay Anderson and Band Wagon (1958).
Reisz and Anderson produced and directed March to Aldermaston (1959), then Reisz and Anderson produced We Are the Lambeth Boys (1959), a naturalistic depiction of a South London boys' club's leisure life as it was, with skiffle music and cigarettes, cricket, drawing and discussion groups. At the Venice Film Festival, the film represented Britain. (The BBC produced two follow-up films about the same people and youth club, which was broadcast in 1985.) He produced I Want to Go to School (1959), directed by John Krish.
His first film, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), was based on Alan Sillitoe's social-realism book and used several of the same techniques as his earlier documentaries. Scenes shot at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham, in particular, have the appearance of a documentary and lend the tale a strong sense of verisimilitude. At the 1961 Mar del Plata International Film Festival, the film received the Grand Award for Best Feature Film. It was a hit in the box office and it had made Albert Finney appear in a film.
Adventure Story (1961) was directed by Reisz. Anderson's debut was This Sporting Life (1963), before he and Finney reunited on Night Must Fall (1964).
Morgan was directed by Reisz (2004) A Good Case for Therapy (1966) A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) based on David Mercer's 1962 television play.
Isadora (1968), a biography of dancer Isadora Duncan starring Vanessa Redgrave, was his fourth film as director.
The Gambler (1974) with James Caan was Reisz's first film shot in America.
With Nick Nolte and Tuesday Weld, he did Who'll Stop the Rain (1978). He had intended to follow it with an adaptation of Brian Moore's book The Doctor's Wife based on a script by Joe Eszterhas, but it was never made.
He directed The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), which was probably the most successful of his later films, back in London. It was adapted from Harold Pinter's book John Fowles' book "Because of a Woman" and featured Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. He directed Gardenia Dreams, directed by John Guare in Boston in 1982.
Sweet Dreams (1985), based on the life of country singer Patsy Cline, starring Jessica Lange, was based on the life of country singer Patsy Cline. After doing it, he wrote a script about Libby Holman for Ray Stark, but it was never completed.
Everybody Wins (1990), Reisz's last film, was based on his play.
Reisz concentrated on theatre directing in London, Dublin, and Paris from 1991 to 2001. He produced an adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea (1994) for British television. Harold Pinter's moonlight with Jason Robards and Blythe Danner directed Moonlight in 1995. He arranged Happy Days at a Beckett festival in Lincoln Center in 1996. With Lindsay Duncan and David Strathairn at the Roundabout Theater Company, he performed Pinter's Ashes to Ashes in 1999. He performed A Kind of Alaska and Landscape at the Lincoln Center in 2001. Reisz did Act Without Words I (2001), when the Gate Theater filmed all Beckett's stage performances.
