A Taste of Honey (1961)

[MifuneFan]

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https://www.criterion.com/films/28734-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 stars Rita Tushingham, 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.

• 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, 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
  
  New cover by Jon Gray

[javi92]

I love these early British New Wave films. Day 1 for me.

[BlurayForumUser]

Been waiting for this on bluray forever!!!
Trouble is.......do I import this or hold for a UK Criterion?

[Gerby]

Originally Posted by BlurayForumUser

Been waiting for this on bluray forever!!!
Trouble is.......do I import this or hold for a UK Criterion?

I'm thinking the same, I love this movie but if there is no UK release I'll wait till the November B&N sale.

[prisoner58]

Hope Criterion will release this in the UK....

[Scottie]

[hypnohighball]

I just sold my UK BFI region 2 PAL dvd of ATOH today on Amazon in anticipation of this new Criterion BD. I had seen the movie on cable and bought this dvd on Amazon UK and never watched it. Now that I've sold it I realize a little late that some of it's special features are NOT on the new Criterion, including a commentary track with Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan and Murray Melvin. I wish that I'd watched that before I sold it - wonder why Criterion didn't use it?

[deepbreathsanddeath]

Originally Posted by hypnohighball

I just sold my UK BFI region 2 PAL dvd of ATOH today on Amazon in anticipation of this new Criterion BD. I had seen the movie on cable and bought this dvd on Amazon UK and never watched it. Now that I've sold it I realize a little late that some of it's special features are NOT on the new Criterion, including a commentary track with Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan and Murray Melvin. I wish that I'd watched that before I sold it - wonder why Criterion didn't use it?

BFI might've said "nah" and plan on releasing their own copy. Exclusive extra's like commentary tracks can be the deciding factor for some people who collect DVD'S and blurays or even a deciding factor as to whether they'll double dip.

[pro-bassoonist]

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