Editorial Reviews
The revolutionary British New Wave films of the early 1960s were celebrated for their uncompromising depictions of working-class lives and relations between the sexes. Directed by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones), a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey stars Rita Tushingham (The Knack), in a star-making debut role, as a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite an absent, self-absorbed mother. With its unapologetic identification with social outcasts and its sensitive, modern approach to matters of sexuality and race, Richardson s classic is a still startling benchmark work of realism.
DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 4K digital transfer
- New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin
- Audio interview with the director and co-screenwriter Tony Richardson, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
- New interview with Kate Dorney, curator of modern and contemporary theater at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, about A Taste of Honey s onstage origins
- Excerpt from a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney
- Momma Don t Allow (1956), Richardson s first theatrical film
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe
Product details
- MPAA rating : s_medNotRated NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 8 x 5.75 x 0.5 inches; 4 Ounces
- Item model number : 35644682
- Director : Tony Richardson
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Special Edition, Restored
- Run time : 1 hour and 40 minutes
- Release date : August 23, 2016
- Actors : Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin
- Subtitles: : English
- Studio : Criterion Collection
- ASIN : B01FRMOXAI
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
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