#629: SCHLESINGER, John: Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)

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SCHLESINGER, John (United Kingdom)
Sunday Bloody Sunday [1971]
Spine #629
Blu-ray


John Schlesinger followed his iconic Midnight Cowboy with this deeply personal take on love and sex. Sunday Bloody Sunday depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirtysomething divorcée — played with great sensitivity by Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson — who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist (Murray Head). A revelation in its day, this may be the seventies' most intelligent, multitextured film about the complexities of romantic relationships.

110 minutes
Color
Monaural
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2012
Director/Writers


Screenplay by Penelope Gilliatt.
John Schlesinger was 45 when he directed Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Other Schlesinger films in the Collection:

#121: Billy Liar (1963)
#925: Midnight Cowboy (1969)

The Film

Film Rating (0-60):

60

The Extras

The Booklet

Thirty-two page booklet featuring an essay by cultural historian Ian Buruma and Gilliatt’s 1971 introduction to her published screenplay.

Commentary

None.

Interviews

With DP Billy Williams, actor Head, production designer Luciana Arrighi, Schlesinger biographer William J. Mann, and Schlesinger’s longtime partner, photographer Michael Childers.

Illlustrated

1975 audio interview with Schlesinger.

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

60 + 39 =

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