Karel Reisz, a Czech refugee who became a leading director of the British New Wave before making ” The French Lieutenant ‘ s Woman ” and other Hollywood dramas, died Monday at a hospital near his home ...

Karel Reisz who died last week at the age of 76, was for half a century a major figure in the lives of all those in this country who took the cinema seriously. He was a quietly spoken, immensely ...

Karel Reisz, the Czech-born director who became a pioneer of the Free Cinema movement in 50s and 60s Britain, has died in London aged 76. Reisz made his reputation with his revolutionary portrait of ...

Czech-born director Karel Reisz, a seminal figure in postwar cinema perhaps best known for helming “The French Lieutenant’s Woman,” died Monday in London. He was 76. Reisz played a key role in ...

Karel Reisz, an influential figure in British cinema’s new-realism movement whose best-known work as a director includes “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” “Isadora” and “The French Lieutenant’s ...

An unusually modest and unassuming man, the film director Karel Reisz, who has died aged 76, was probably unfortunate in being so closely associated with the combative Lindsay Anderson (obituary, ...

Karel Reisz, who died on Monday aged 76, was one of the pioneers of the new realist strain in British cinema in the late 1950s and early 1960s, having prepared the ground with Lindsay Anderson through ...

Karel Reisz must have been a border-crosser all his life. He was born in 1926, in the Czech mill town of Ostrava, an afternoon’s walk from the Polish border. At the age of 12, he was forced to leave, ...