Films with: Reisz, Karel

Beckett on film 19 films x 19 directors /

"The comprehensive cinematic interpretation of Beckett's plays."--Container.

DVD 3675

Cinéma vérité defining the moment /

"The cinéma vérité (or direct cinema) movement of the '50s and '60s was driven by a group of rebel filmmakers tired of stilted documentaries. They wanted to show life as it really is: raw, gritty, dramatic. Rich in excerpts from vérité classics ... this is the first film to capture all the excitement of a revolution that changed movie-making forever"--Container. Includes commentary by filmmakers, and explores vérité's influence in everything from TV news to music videos to Webcams.

DVD 3959

Free cinema

Free Cinema consisted of a group of young film-makers who decided to rebel against the stifling conformity of British cinema in the late fifties and to make their own films outside the confines of 'the system'. This 50th-anniversary compilation of short films about British working class life shows directors expressing personal viewpoints without obligation to subscribe to the technical or social conventions imposed on commercial film-making.

DVD 7153

French lieutenant's woman

A woman, ostracized by Victorian society and abandoned by her French lieutenant lover, fascinates a man who resolves to unravel the mystery of her clandestine past.

DVD 1900

Morgan a suitable case for treatment /

A black comedy that chronicles one man's descent into a life of absurdist fantasy. Against the backround of swinging London in its heyday, the film follows Morgan through his futile attempts at marital reconciliation an on to his triumphant discovery that it really is easier to deal with life while dressed in a gorilla suit.

DVD 1416

Saturday night and Sunday morning

A rambunctious (and contentious) young man stuck in a factory job is having an affair with the wife of a co-worker. Frustrated by his economic confines, he drinks up much of his paycheck on the weekends. He also meets a young girl his own age and his affections begin to shift toward her.

DVD 1947

This sporting life

The story of a professional rugby player who carries the violence of the football field into every area of his life.

DVD 564

Who'll stop the rain

A struggle between smugglers and sadistic thieves to possess two kilograms of heroin.

DVD 6636