Sunday Bloody Sunday

Film Info

United Kingdom
1971
110 minutes
Color
1.66:1
English
Spine #629

John Schlesinger followed his iconic Midnight Cowboy with this deeply personal take on love and sex. Sunday Bloody Sunday depicts the romantic lives of two Londoners, a middle-aged doctor and a prickly thirtysomething divorcée—played with great sensitivity by Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson—who are sleeping with the same handsome young artist (Murray Head). A revelation in its day, this may be the seventies’ most intelligent, multitextured film about the complexities of romantic relationships.

Cast

Alex Greville	Glenda Jackson
Daniel Hirsh	Peter Finch
Bob Elkin	Murray Head
Mrs. Greville	Peggy Ashcroft
Mr. Harding	Tony Britton
Mr. Greville	Maurice Denham
Answering service lady	Bessie Love
Alva Hodson	Vivian Pickles
Bill Hodson	Frank Windsor
Professor Johns	Thomas Baptiste
Patient	Richard Pearson
Woman patient	June Brown
Daniel’s mother	Hannah Norbert
Daniel’s father	Harold Goldblatt
Aust Astrid	Marie Burke
Scotsman	Jon Finch

Credits

Director	John Schlesinger
Produced by	Joseph Janni
Screenplay	Penelope Gilliatt
Director of photography	Billy Williams
Designed by	Luciana Arrighi
Editor	Richard Marden
Director of music	Douglas Gamley
Special music by	Ron Geesin
Costumes designed by	Jocelyn Rickards
Set decorator	Harry Cordwell
Associate producer	Edward Joseph
Production manager	Hugh Harlow
Assistant director	Simon Relph
Art director	Norman Dorme
Continuity	Ann Skinner
Casting	Miriam Brickman
Sound recordists	Simon Kaye and Gerry Humphreys
Camera operator	David Harcourt
Sound editor	David Campling
Assistant editor	Mary Kessel
Makeup	Freddie Williamson
Hairdresser	Betty Glasow
Sculptures and models by	Loncraine & Broxton

Disc Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised by director of photography Billy Williams, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New interviews with Williams, actor Murray Head, production designer Luciana Arrighi, John Schlesinger biographer William J. Mann, and Schlesinger’s longtime partner, photographer Michael Childers
Illustrated 1975 audio interview with Schlesinger
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by cultural historian Ian Buruma and Penelope Gilliatt’s 1971 introduction to her published screenplay

New cover by Lucien S. Y. Yang