A Taste of Honey
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.
Special Features
- 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
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe
New cover by Jon Gray
Special Features
- 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
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe
New cover by Jon Gray
Cast
- Rita Tushingham
- Jo
- Dora Bryan
- Helen
- Paul Danquah
- Jimmy
- Murray Melvin
- Geoffrey
- Robert Stephens
- Peter
Credits
- Director
- Tony Richardson
- Produced by
- Tony Richardson
- Screenplay by
- Shelagh Delaney
- Screenplay by
- Tony Richardson
- Adapted from the play by
- Shelagh Delaney
- Music by
- John Addison
- Cinematography by
- Walter Lassally
- Film editing by
- Anthony Gibbs
- Art direction by
- Ralph W. Brinton
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