Taste Of Honey/Bd, Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray

A Taste of Honey (Criterion Collection) 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 (Tom Jones), a leading light of that movement, and based on one of the most controversial plays of its time, A Taste of Honey stars Rita Tushingham (The Knack), in a star-making debut role, as a disaffected teenager finding 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, Richardson’s classic is a still startling benchmark work of realism. FEATURES: Genre: DRAMA Year: 1961 Widescreen Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 B&W Run Time: 100 Minutes Language: ENGLISH BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New, restored 4K digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack New interviews with actors Rita Tushingham and Murray Melvin Audio interview with director and coscreenwriter Tony Richardson, conducted by film critic Gideon Bachmann at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival New interview with Kate Dorney, curator of modern and contemporary theater at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, about A Taste of Honey’s onstage origins Excerpt from a 1960 television interview with A Taste of Honey playwright Shelagh Delaney Momma Don’t Allow (1956), Richardson’s first theatrical film PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe"