Morrissey’s Taste for Shelagh Delaney - The Criterion Collection
...In conjunction with our release of Tony Richardson’s 1961 screen adaptation of A Taste of Honey, out tomorrow, we’ve gathered Morrissey’s most prominent references to this groundbreaking work of social realism in the below playlist
Synopsis (Blu-ray / DVD) - The Criterion Collection
Disc features:
...In conjunction with our release of Tony Richardson’s 1961 screen adaptation of A Taste of Honey, out tomorrow, we’ve gathered Morrissey’s most prominent references to this groundbreaking work of social realism in the below playlist


Synopsis (Blu-ray / DVD) - The Criterion Collection
Disc 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
- PLUS: An essay by film scholar Colin MacCabe
New cover by Jon Gray
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