Goodtimes Enterprises

British film production company (formed 1968)

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)
  • Lisztomania (1975)
  • Bugsy Malone (1976)

References

  1. ^ Sue Harper and Justin Smith, British Film Culture in the 1970s: The Boundaries of Pleasure, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp. 120–122.
  2. ^ Goodtimes Enterprises at BFI Film Forever.
  3. ^ "Sandy Lieberson", Scripteast.
  4. ^ "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (1975)" at BFI Film Forever (archived 21 July 2017).

Further reading

  • Sian Barber, The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

External links

  • "Goodtimes Enterprises", TV Cream, 27 July 2009.
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