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Reisz joined the Royal Air Force towards the end of the war, after the death of his parents at Auschwitz . After the war, he studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge , and began to write for film journals, including '' Sight And Sound ''. He co-founded ''Sequence'' with Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert in 1947 . He was also a founder member of the Free Cinema documentary movement. His 1959 film ''We Are the Lambeth Boys'' was a naturalistic depiction of the members of a South London boys' club, which was unusual in showing the life of working-class teenagers as it was, with Skiffle music and cigarettes intact. His first feature film '' Saturday Night And Sunday Morning '' ( 1960 ) was based on a social realist novel by Alan Sillitoe , and used many of the same techniques as his earlier documentaries. In particular, scenes filmed at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham have the now familiar look of a documentary, and give the story a vivid sense of verisimilitude. He produced '''' ( 1966 ), '' Isadora '' ( 1968 ), '' The Gambler '' ( 1974 ), '' Who'll Stop The Rain '' ( 1978 ), '' The French Lieutenant's Woman '' ( 1981 ), '' Sweet Dreams '' ( 1985 ), and '' Everybody Wins '' ( 1990 ) among others, and was a patron of the British Film Institute . |
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