#829: RICHARDSON, Tony: A Taste Of Honey (1961)
RICHARDSON, Tony (United Kingdom)
A Taste Of Honey [1961]
Spine #829
Blu-ray
100 minutes
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe.
Commentary
None.
Interviews
With actors Tushingham and Melvin.
Audio interview
With director and coscreenwriter Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
Excerpt
From a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey playwright Delaney.
Interview
From 1998 with DP Walter Lassally.
Remaking British Theater: Joan Littlewood and “A Taste of Honey”
A piece about the film’s stage origins, featuring an interview with theater scholar Kate Dorney.
A Free Cinema short film
Momma Don’t Allow (1956) by Richardson, shot by Lassally.
A Taste Of Honey [1961]
Spine #829
Blu-ray
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, a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey features Rita Tushingham in her star-making debut role as a disaffected teenager finding her way amid the economic desperation of industrial Manchester, and despite her 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.
100 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
Monaural
1:66:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
Director/Writers
Adapted from the play by Shelagh Delaney.
Screenplay by Delaney and Tony Richardson.
Richardson was 33 when he directed A Taste of Honey.
Other Richardson films in the Collection:
#910: Tom Jones (1963)
The Film
Other Richardson films in the Collection:
#910: Tom Jones (1963)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe.
Commentary
None.
Interviews
With actors Tushingham and Melvin.
Audio interview
With director and coscreenwriter Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
Excerpt
From a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey playwright Delaney.
Interview
From 1998 with DP Walter Lassally.
Remaking British Theater: Joan Littlewood and “A Taste of Honey”
A piece about the film’s stage origins, featuring an interview with theater scholar Kate Dorney.
A Free Cinema short film
Momma Don’t Allow (1956) by Richardson, shot by Lassally.
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