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Woodfall Film Productions Ltd.
Directed by: Tony Richardson
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.
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Format:
DVD
Disc:
DVD-9 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Audio Interview, Short Film, Insert
- 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
- An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe
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Release Credits
Producer: Elizabeth Pauker
Artwork: John Gray
Release Notes on Restoration
A Taste of Honey
A Taste of Honey is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1. On standard 4:3 televisions, the image will appear letterboxed. On standard and widescreen televisions, black bars may also appear on the left and right to maintain the proper screen format. This new digital transfer was created 4K resolution on a Lasergraphics Director film scanner from the 35mm original camera negative. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI Film’s DRS, while Digital Vision’s Phoenix was used for jitter, flicker, small dirt, grain, and noise management.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at from the 35mm original sound negative. The element was transferred at the British Film Institute National Archive in Berkhamsted, England, using Sondor’s Resonances optical soundtrack scanner system. Digital restoration was performed by the Criterion Collection using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX 4.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered at from the 35mm original sound negative. The element was transferred at the British Film Institute National Archive in Berkhamsted, England, using Sondor’s Resonances optical soundtrack scanner system. Digital restoration was performed by the Criterion Collection using Pro Tools HD and iZotope RX 4.