Sky Cinema 1 is showing two classic films this Thursday (8th september)
A Taste of Honey 10pm - 11.45pm

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 10.20am -12pm

Radio Times shows the following reviews;

A Taste of Honey
A ground-breaking movie of its time, based on Shelagh Delaney's play, with the mousy Rita Tushingham in her screen debut as the unwanted teenage daughter of Dora Bryan, a hilariously vulgar Salford lass who is being courted by a flash and pimpish Robert Stephens. Our Rita is saved from her living hell by two social exiles -a black sailor, who makes her pregnant, and a homosexual who makes her happy -until the poverty trap shuts around her. Set in dank bedsits amid the grimy smokestacks, polluted canals and the tacky prom at Blackpool, this movie - a romance of sorts, and a comedy -survives as a priceless barometer of England and English attitudes in 1961

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

At a time when angry young men railed against the injustices of life, Arthur Seaton was the only "kitchen sink" hero to accept that, while life was nasty, brutish and short, you had to make the best of it. And there was no one better to convey that complex mix of cynicism, laddishness and resignation than Albert Finney. The fact that this was only his second film makes it an even more astonishing performance. Both he and Rachel Roberts won Bafta awards, while the film itself took the best British picture honour. Adapting his own novel, Alan Sillitoe draws on his own experiences of factory life, which are given a truly authentic ring by director Karel Reisz, who was making his feature debut after several pioneering Free Cinema Documentaries. British films would never be the same again. For the first time, the working classes were treated with respect, not condescension. Finney's belligerence towards authority is as convincing as his touching tenderness towards the married woman (Roberts) he seduces, and, while he may not always live by his words - "What I want is a good time. The rest is all propaganda" -as he conforms to marriage with Shirley Anne Field, the film's affirmation that he can never really be beaten survices. This ground - breaker has lost non of its power