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A taste of honey
Uniform Title
Taste of honey (Motion picture : 1961)
Title
A taste of honey / Bryanston presents ; a Woodfall film ; screenplay by Shelagh Delaney and Tony Richardson ; produced and directed by Tony Richardson.
ISBN
9781681431956
1681431955
Edition
DVD edition.
Two-DVD special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (100 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Medium
DVD video 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from title frame.
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.
Music, John Addison ; art director, Ralph Brinton ; director of photography, Walter Lasally ; editor, Antony Gibbs ; wardrobe, Sophie Devine, Barbara Gillett.
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Access and use
Classroom use may be subject to licensing restrictions.
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.
Variant and related titles
Momma don't allow.
Remaking British theater.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 16, 2018
Series
The Criterion collection ; 829
Credits
Music, John Addison ; art director, Ralph Brinton ; director of photography, Walter Lasally ; editor, Antony Gibbs ; wardrobe, Sophie Devine, Barbara Gillett.
Cast
Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah.
System details note
DVD; region 1, NTSC, region 1; widescreen 1.66:1 presentation; Dolby digital 1.0.
Contents
Disc 1. Main feature.
Disc 2. Special features.
Videorecording number
CC2668D The Criterion Collection
CC2668D-1 The Criterion Collection
CC2668D-2 The Criterion Collection
CC2668DDVD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Social problem films.
Social problem films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Foreign films.
Also listed under
Bryanston Pictures, presenter.
Woodfall Film Productions, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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