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Taste Of Honey, A: The Criterion Collection
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.
Details
- Length
- Rating NR
- Released:
- Added Jul 26 2016
- Production Year 1961
- Empire SKU 1861757
- UPC Code 715515184717
- Studio Criterion
Features
- New Restored 4k Digital Transfer
- New Interviews With Actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin
- Audio Interview With Director and Cosscreenwriter Tony Richardson From the 1962 Cannes Film festival
- Except From a 1960 With Cinematographer Walter Lassally
- Remaking British Theater: Joan Littlewood and "A Taste of Honey" a New piece about Film's Stage Origins, featuring an Interview with Theater Scholar Kate Dorney
- Momma Dont Allow (1956), A Free Cinema short Film By Richardson, Shot by Lassally
- PLUS: An Essay By Film Scholar Colin MacCabe
Audio/Video
- Video
Widescreen 1.66:1 B&W (Anamorphic)
Categories
- Affairs & Love Triangles
- Blu-ray
- Classics
- Coming-Of-Age
- Drama
- Family
- Friendships
- History & Events
- LGBT Interest
- Parenting