Word: reisz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by Karel Reisz...
Directed by KAREL REISZ Screenplay by JAMES TOBACK
...this balancing of the moral books, just as Axel's character is too contrived for the movie to be emotionally gripping. We are too aware of Writer Toback's undigested intellectual debts as well as his rather adolescent romanticizing of his subject. Nor has London-based Director Reisz (Morgan, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) fully absorbed any of the milieus through which The Gambler moves. Most of the time he seems to be taking snapshots for an album to be called something like "Colorful Habits of the Natives...
...that others see and recognize, then you are flying." She will have a chance to "fly" again. Following the Revson contract, she immediately got two movie offers. She has already accepted-and begun shooting-one of them: Paramount's The Gambler, in which she is directed by Karel Reisz. James Caan costars...
...spurred by the emergence of the New Left in the English arts, Anderson and other young men like Directors Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz formed a loose association called "Free Cinema." Their self-assigned mission was to break away from the brittle, upper-middle-class-oriented British film tradition and make gritty, naturalistic movies about the life of the English majority-the working class. Anderson succeeded superbly with his 1963 adaptation of David Storey's novel about semipro rugby players, This Sporting Life. He then turned to "strong humanist statements," notably If . . . Set in Anderson's old school...