[dir. SCHLESINGER, John] GILLIATT, Penelope
Bloody Sunday (Sunday Bloody Sunday) London: Vic Films, 1970
134pp. mimeographed screenplay, variegated pages bound in black stiff paper wrappers, secured with two split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Wrappers lightly worn, but a very well preserved copy.
THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT OF A LANDMARK GAY FILM. A cornerstone of gay film history, John Schlesinger’s Sunday
Bloody Sunday is the story of a menage à trois: Daniel, a middle- aged doctor (Peter Finch); his wife Alex, a career woman in her ‘30s (Glenda Jackson); and Bob, the young artist who is the lover of them both (Murray Head). A pin-sharp portrait of life in 1970s London among the liberal bourgeoisie, Sunday Bloody Sundayachieves its revolutionary status partly (and famously) by featuring mainstream cinema’s first male gay kiss, but mostly by finding the sexual orientation of its characters entirely unremarkable. The film deploys no stereotypes or value judgements, content to be a frank and honest appraisal of the human heart. Three human hearts.
Sunday Bloody Sunday inadvertently made history in its casting, too: the bored kid briefly seen vandalising parked cars is played by a 13-year-old Daniel Day-Lewis, here making his debut.
[dir. SCHLESINGER, John] GILLIATT, Penelope
Bloody Sunday (Sunday Bloody Sunday) London: Vic Films, 1970
134pp. mimeographed screenplay, variegated pages bound in black stiff paper wrappers, secured with two split pins to left edge. Title window to front wrapper. Wrappers lightly worn, but a very well preserved copy.
THE ORIGINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT OF A LANDMARK GAY FILM. A cornerstone of gay film history, John Schlesinger’s Sunday
Bloody Sunday is the story of a menage à trois: Daniel, a middle- aged doctor (Peter Finch); his wife Alex, a career woman in her ‘30s (Glenda Jackson); and Bob, the young artist who is the lover of them both (Murray Head). A pin-sharp portrait of life in 1970s London among the liberal bourgeoisie, Sunday Bloody Sundayachieves its revolutionary status partly (and famously) by featuring mainstream cinema’s first male gay kiss, but mostly by finding the sexual orientation of its characters entirely unremarkable. The film deploys no stereotypes or value judgements, content to be a frank and honest appraisal of the human heart. Three human hearts.
Sunday Bloody Sunday inadvertently made history in its casting, too: the bored kid briefly seen vandalising parked cars is played by a 13-year-old Daniel Day-Lewis, here making his debut.
