A taste of honey / Bryanston presents ; a Woodfall film ; screenplay by Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson ; produced and directed by Tony Richardson.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah. Adapted from the play by Shelagh Delaney. Originally released as a motion picture in 1961. Widescreen (1.66:1). Special features on disc one: new, restored, 4K digital transfer; audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival; "Momma don’t allow" (1956), a Free Cinema short film by Richardson and shot by Lassally; disc two: excerpt from a 1960 television interview with playwright Shelagh Delaney; interview from 1998 with cinematographer Walter Lassally; remaking British Theater: Joan Littlewood and “A Taste of Honey,” a new piece about the film’s stage origins, featuring an interview with theater scholar Kate Dorney; booklet essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe.
Summary:
Based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, shows how a disaffected teenager finds 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, a classic that is still a startling benchmark work of realism.
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