Goodtimes Enterprises
Goodtimes Enterprises was a British film production company, run by David Puttnam and Sanford Lieberson.[1] Their films include Performance, Melody, That'll Be The Day, Stardust, Mahler, Lisztomania and Bugsy Malone.[2] The company was formed by Lieberson in 1968 with Performance, and Puttnam joined the company as a partner in 1970. They also owned a small independent British film distribution company called Visual Programme Systems, (or VPS),[3] which would sometimes produce and release documentaries such as Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?[4]
Selected filmography
- Performance (1970)
- Melody (1971)
- Dougal and the Blue Cat (1972)
- Bringing It All Back Home (1972)
- The Pied Piper (1972)
- That'll Be the Day (1973)
- The Final Programme (1973)
- Mahler (1974)
- Stardust (1974)
- Slade in Flame (1975)
- Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975) (film)
- Lisztomania (1975)
- Bugsy Malone (1976)
- James Dean: The First American Teenager (1976) (TV)
References
- Sue Harper and Justin Smith, British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp. 120–122.
- Goodtimes Enterprises at BFI Film Forever.
- "Sandy Lieberson", Scripteast.
- "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)" at BFI Film Forever.
Further reading
- Sian Barber, The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
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