1 day ago · We have had the Karel Reisz season, the Richard Attenborough reetrospective and we are currently in the throes of the Summer of Spielberg, and Pinter on Screen. He mentioned more cultural highlights to come, including a Rupert Everett Q&A on Sunday 8 September and the Chiswick In Film Festival, which this year will be in November (Friday 15 – Sunday 17), the details of which will be ...
Czech-born British director, producer, film theorist, theatre director
Karel Reisz (21 July 1926 – 25 November 2002) was a Czech-born British filmmaker and film critic, one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. Two of the best-known films he directed are Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), a classic of kitchen sink realism, and the romantic period drama The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). Wikipedia
