"Director: Karel Reisz"

• Saturday Night And Sunday Morning | DVD | (22/06/2015) from £13.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (28.59%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A key film of the British New Wave, Saturday Night And Sunday Morning was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy, the gritty realism of its setting, and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Sillitoe's largely autobiographical novel, the film is set in the grim industrial streets and factories of Nottingham, where Arthur Seaton spends his days at a factory bench, his Saturday evenings in the local...

• The French Lieutenant's Woman | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (30.55%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Writer Harold Pinter (Betrayal) and director Karel Reisz (Isadora) take an experimental spin with John Fowles's magnificent novel set in Victorian England, and come up with something puzzling. Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the forbidden lovers in Fowles's story, but in a parallel story line they also play contemporary actors performing those characters in a movie production and having an affair of their own during off-hours. Got that? Considering that Fowles himself presents alternative endings in his novel, something equally eccentric is called for here. But little is accomplished by this intertwining of a fictional past and present, and the opportunity to do justice to a great story is lost. On the plus side, Irons and Streep are instantly striking as a natural couple on screen, and their presence makes watching The French Lieutenant's Woman easy enough despite the larger problems. --Tom Keogh

• Saturday Night, Sunday Morning | Blu Ray | (22/06/2015) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A key film of the British New Wave Saturday Night And Sunday Morning was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy the gritty realism of its setting and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Sillitoe's largely autobiographical novel the film is set in the grim industrial streets and factories of Nottingham where Arthur Seaton spends his days at a factory bench his Saturday evenings in the local pubs and his Saturday nights with Brenda (Rachel Roberts) wife of a fellow factory worker. Played by Albert Finney with an irresistable animal vitality Arthur is anti-authority (Don't let the bastards grind you down) and unashamedly amoral (What I'm out for is a good time. All the rest is propoganda). With powerful central performances cracking dialogue by Sillitoe and a superb jazz score by Johnny Dankworth Saturday Night And Sunday Morning still stands as a vibrant modern classic.

• Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema (8-disc Blu-ray box set) | Blu Ray | (11/06/2018) from £64.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new 8-disc set celebrating the 60th anniversary of Woodfall Films. Includes eight iconic films (many newly restored and available on Blu-ray for the first time) that revolutionised British cinema and launched the careers of the likes of Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham. Features: Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959) The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960) A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962) Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963) (New 4K digital restorations of the original theatrical version of the film and the 1989 director's cut) Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, 1964) The Knack...and how to get it (Richard Lester, 1965) Special Features: Presented in High Definition All films newly remastered for this release, excluding Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Extras TBC

• The Terence Rattigan Collection | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £37.15   |  Saving you £2.84 (7.64%)   |  RRP £39.99

  In his centenary year the genius of playwright Terence Rattigan is at last being recognised and The Terence Rattigan Collection is an invaluable compendium of his finest work performed by some outstanding casts. Rattigan had a profound understanding of the human heart in all its complexity. He is the master of an emotional restraint which gives his work its unforgettable power and attracts in this collection star actors of the calibre of Sean Connery and Colin Firth Penelope Wilton and Judi Dench Ian Holm and Michael Gambon Eric Porter and Geraldine McEwan. Among the plays included on this DVD are The Deep Blue Sea in which Hester Collyer sacrifices everything for a younger man who cannot return her love and The Browning Version in which a schoolmaster's emotional shell is cracked by an unexpected act of kindness. In The Terence Rattigan Collection great acting and great story-telling combine to make compulsive viewing.

• Dog Soldiers | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two kilograms of heroin are at the center of this intense action-drama. Ray Hicks smuggles the drugs into the country but now ruthless thieves want to take it from him. With the crooks in hot pursuit and his best friend's wife in tow Ray goes on the run leading to an amazing showdown between both sides that will knock you out...

• Free Cinema | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £21.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (36.38%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The term 'free cinema' was coined by critic and filmmaker Lindsay Anderson in early 1956 when he Karel Reisz Tony Richardson and Lorenza Mazzetti showed a programme of their short films at the National Film Theatre. Although the name was intended only for that screening it proved so successful that five more programmes were shown under the same banner between 1956 and 1959. The films were 'free' in the sense that they were made outside the framework of the film industry and that

• French Lieutenant's Woman (Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (30/03/2020) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  An astounding array of talent came together for the big-screen adaptation of John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, a postmodern masterpiece that had been considered unfilmable. With an ingenious script by the Nobel Prizewinning playwright HAROLD PINTER (Betrayal), British New Wave trailblazer KAREL REISZ (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) transforms Fowles's tale of scandalous romance into an arresting, hugely entertaining movie about cinema. In Pinter's reimagining, JEREMY IRONS (Dead Ringers) and MERYL STREEP (Sophie's Choice) star in parallel narratives, as a Victorian-era gentleman and the social outcast he risks everything to love, and as the contemporary actors cast in those roles and immersed in their own forbidden affair. The French Lieutenant's Woman, shot by the consummate cinematographer FREDDIE FRANCIS (Glory) and scored by the venerated composer and conductor CARL DAVIS, is a beguiling, intellectually nimble feat of filmmaking, starring a pair of legendary actors in early leading roles. Special Edition Features New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray New introduction by film scholar Ian Christie New interviews with actors Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep, editor John Bloom, and composer Carl Davis Episode of The South Bank Show from 1981 featuring director Karel Reisz, novelist John Fowles, and screenwriter Harold Pinter Trailer PLUS: An essay by film scholar Lucy Bolton

• Woodfall: A Revolution in British Cinema (8-disc DVD box set) | DVD | (11/06/2018) from £47.95   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new 8-disc set celebrating the 60th anniversary of Woodfall Films. Includes eight iconic films (many newly restored and available on Blu-ray for the first time) that revolutionised British cinema and launched the careers of the likes of Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay and Rita Tushingham. Features: Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959) The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960) Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960) A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961) The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962) Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963) (New 4K digital restorations of the original theatrical version of the film and the 1989 director's cut) Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, 1964) The Knack...and how to get it (Richard Lester, 1965) Special Features: Presented in High Definition All films newly remastered for this release, excluding Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Extras TBC

• Isadora | Blu Ray | (18/05/2015) from £17.48   |  Saving you £7.50 (51.76%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Vanessa Redgrave & James Fox stars in Karel Reisz’s Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated film biopic of Isadora Duncan the most iconic dancer of the 20th century. Vanessa Redgrave regarded this as her best-ever dramatic performance and this Blu-ray release includes newly filmed extras with Melvyn Bragg and many more extras.

• Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment | DVD | (17/01/2011) from £9.64   |  Saving you £6.35 (65.87%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Anarchic Londoner Morgan Delt a working class artist and self-confessed dreamer with a gorilla-fixation tries to regain the affections of his upper-class ex-wife Leonie. Leonie rejects Morgan's attempts at reconciliation and when she informs him of her plans to marry stuffy art dealer Charles Napier Morgan slips off the mental deep end into a vivid fantasy life. Morgan enacts a series of bizarre gags and stunts in an often hilarious campaign to win Leonie back... Boasting a brilliant cast including Vanessa Redgrave (Howard's End Blow Up) who earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role and David Warner (Tron The Omen) Morgan A Suitable Case For Treatment is a 60s cult classic adapted from David Mercer's BBC Sunday night play and directed by Karel Reisz (The French Lieutenant's Woman Saturday Night And Sunday Morning). Cut with dream sequences from King Kong and Tarzan films Morgan's depiction of surreal madness and dark humour made it the swinging sixties wildest funniest and most provocative comedy.

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (DVD +Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (24/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This movie, that made Albert Finney a star, is a UK cinematic gem. At the time of release it hit the audience like a bombshell due to its frank portrayal of life, sex and double standards in the late 1950's. It tells the story of Arthur (Finney) a factory worker who is seeing two women at the same time. When one of them falls pregnant he finds himself having to choose...It was the first of the cinematic 'kitchen sink drama's' of the 1960's and was a huge box office hit. This film has been unavailable for almost three years. This version is restored and remastered with new extra's including interviews with Albert Finney and Shirley Anne Field. This will be the definitive release of this classic of British cinema.

• We Are The Lambeth Boys DVD | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (128.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  We are the Lambeth Boys is a fascinating glimpse into the everyday lives of working class young people in the Britain of the 1950s. This pioneering documentary - part of the Free Cinema movement - was one of the first films to give this section of the community a voice and remains an important and ground-breaking work. Made for the Ford Motor Company''s 'Look at Britain'' series We are the Lambeth Boys was directed by Karel Reisz who would go on to direct critically-acclaimed feature films such as Saturday Night Sunday Morning and the award-winning The French Lieutenant's Woman. His 'fly-on-the-wall' style allowed his subjects to speak for themselves revealing their hopes and fears their loves and hates as a revolution in youth culture offered new opportunities and new challenges. We are the Lambeth Boys was among the innovative films which paved the way for the modern observational style of documentary. Reisz's subjects are the boys and girls who attend the Alford House Youth Club in London's Kennington. We see them at work at school and most importantly at the youth club. It was here the young people could meet up to chat to debate to play cricket to gossip and to dance. Five decades on this archive film offers a snapshot of the period when Britain's social values were on the verge of being transformed forever and lets those who would lead the transformation speak for themselves. The soundtrack comes from jazz great Johnny Dankworth while respected British television actor Jon Rollason narrates. The brilliance of We are the Lambeth Boys was recognised in its own time - it represented Britain at the Venice Film Festival and won the Grand Prix at the short film festival in Tours France - and it remains an important piece of social history as well as a ground-breaking piece of film making.

• Isadora - Digitally Remastered 2 Disc Collector's Edition | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Isadora Duncan was the most iconic free-style dancer of the twentieth century who courted both admiration and scandal in equal measure. Her unique style of dancing made her the guests of King's Queen's nobility and Russian revolutionaries ultimately making her the 'peoples' dancer'. But her Bohemian lifestyle and unorthodox morality led to a personal life that was marred by misunderstanding tragedy and ultimately her own untimely death. Available on DVD for the first time with an enormous selection of extras this Oscar and BAFTA nominated film stars Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave in a stunning portrayal of Isadora Duncan. Adapted for the screen by Melvyn Bragg Isadora burns her parents' marriage license as a little girl and pledges her life to 'Beauty and Art'. Whilst her genius for dance and free spirit causes a sensation across Europe her nave effervescent radiance leads to an almost accidental succession of lovers in Paris Singer (Jason Robards) Gordon Craig (James Fox) and Sergel Essenin (Ivan Tchenko). As she sips champagne and dictates her memoirs at the Negresco Hotel in Nice Isadora reflects upon a life and art that were anything but conventional...

• Everybody Wins | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £8.69   |  Saving you £7.30 (84.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Things certainly aren't easy for a jaded private detective on the weird streets of Connecticut just ask down and out private eye Tom 'O Toole. Hired by a mysterious woman convinced that a local juvenile teen banged up on a murder charge is innocent detective Tom 'O Toole is suddenly sucked into twisted world of split personalities oddball locals reformed drug runners religious fanatics demented biker gangs corrupt politicians and a deadly secret that goes all the way to the top of the mountain. But who can be trusted? Is it all a big cover up? Is it all lies? Is detective Tom O Toole being duped? Or is it all the demented fantasies of an unstable woman's deluded mind? Everybody Wins is an enthralling paranoid and surreal thriller written by legendary playwright Arthur Miller (Death Of A Salesman The Crucible The Misfits) directed by cult filmmaker Karel Reisz (Dog Soldiers Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment Saturday Night And Sunday Morning) and starring Nick Nolte (Tropic Thunder The Thin Red Line) and Debra Winger (The Sheltering Sky Shadowlands).

• Saturday Night And Sunday Morning | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A key film of the British New Wave 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' was a great box-office success - audiences were thrilled by its anti-establishment energy the gritty realism of its setting and most of all by a working-class hero of a fresh and outspoken kind. Based on Alan Sillitoe's largely autobiographical novel the film is set in the grim industrial streets and factories of Nottingham where Arthur Seaton spends his days at a factory bench his Saturday evenings in the local pubs and his Saturday nights with Brenda (Rachel Roberts) wife of a fellow factory worker. Played by Albert Finney with an irresistable animal vitality Arthur is anti-authority (Don't let the bastards grind you down) and unashamedly amoral (What I'm out for is a good time. All the rest is propoganda). With powerful central performances cracking dialogue by Sillitoe and a superb jazz score by Johnny Dankworth 'Saturday Night And Sunday Morning' still stands as a vibrant modern classic.

• Sweet Dreams | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From her beginnings in 1956 as an obscure singer scraping a living in local bars and clubs to her untimely death in a plane crash in 1963 Reisz's biopic traces Patsy Cline's (Jessica Lange) struggle to establish herself as a successful recording artist focusing on the pressures she encountered along the way. Struggling with her turbulent marriage to Charlie Dick (Ed Harris) she tries to balance the needs of her children with the pressures of constant touring. While Patsy's career takes off Charlie's jealousy manifests itself in increasingly drunken abusive behaviour until their inevitable but acrimonious break up. Finally just as her single Sweet Dreams hits the charts comes the tragic conclusion to her meteoric rise to fame...

• Morgan - A Suitable Case For Treatment | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Time does odd things to some films. In 1966, Morgan--A Suitable Case for Treatment was hailed as a touching black comedy about the destruction of a free spirit by an uncaring bourgeois world. Playwright David Mercer's screenplay is full of his standard obsessions of the time--Trotskyism and RD Laing's perception of the mad as truly sane--and Karel Reisz's direction effectively balances Morgan's failing real-world life with a fantasy life of gorillas, King Kong and sinister partisans emerging from a crisply photographed Battersea Power Station. David Warner's Morgan is far more like his student rebel Hamlet of the same year than the B-Movie villains for which he has been more famous for ever since; it is a sentimentalised performance, but only because of the deep sentimentality of the film. A cast that includes Robert Stephens, Irene Handl and Bernard Bresslaw give us some effective social satire and low comedy. The trouble is that Morgan's pursuit and near-rape of his ex-wife, and his trashing of her society wedding, now look more like the behaviour of a stalker than an act of bohemian rebellion; it is significant that the film treats Vanessa Redgrave as a treacherous bimbo with nothing much to do except smile wistfully. Morgan may have been one of the trendiest films of its Swinging London epoch but it has not aged well. On the DVD: the DVD is presented with Dolby Digital sound that makes the most of John Danworth's jazz score in a 2:1 full frame visual aspect. The clean print makes the most of the mono photography. --Roz Kaveney

• Sweet Dreams | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A biopic directed by Karel Reisz, Sweet Dreams charts how country music star Patsy Cline came by the torchy emotions in her songs honestly; rising from poor surroundings, literally forcing her talent on the Nashville establishment, all the while trying to survive an abusive marriage to a drinker. Though the script by Robert Getchell is standard Hollywood biography, the movie is more than watchable, thanks to a bone-deep performance by the always astonishing Jessica Lange and the counterpoint by Ed Harris as her loving but unreliable husband. The soundtrack features a basketful of Cline's hits, which Lange convincingly lip-synchs. --Marshall Fine