A Taste Of Honey [1961] [Criterion] (BLU)
Tony Richardson
Synopsis
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.
- New, restored, 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin
- Audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson from the 1962 Cannes Film Festival
- Excerpt from a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey 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
- Momma Don’t Allow (1956), a Free Cinema short film by Richardson, shot by Lassally
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
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PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe
New cover by Jon Gray
Product Details
- Format: Widescreen
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Aspect Ratio: 1:66:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: Not Rated
- Label: Criterion Collection
- Release Date: 08/23/2016
- Run Time: 100 minutes
- Catalogue #: 829
- Region: Canada, US