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Title:
A taste of honey
Author:
Richardson, Tony, 1928-1991, screenwriter, film producer, film director.
Edition:
Special edition.
Publication Information:
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (100 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus disc.
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.
General Note:
Adapted from the play by Shelagh Delaney.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.

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: The actors (interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin, recorded by Criterion in 2016); excerpt from a 1960 television interview with playwright Shelagh Delaney on the series Close-Up; 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.
Language:
English
Added Title:
Momma don't allow.

Remaking British theater.
ISBN:
9781681431956
UPC:
715515184816
Format :
DVD