November 2006

Hollywood Classics is proud to announce it has acquired the distribution rights to the library of Handmade Films the production company established by former Beatle, George Harrison, and Denis O'Brien who over 15 years produced someof the most popular and critically acclaimed British films.  They include: The Long Good Friday (d. John Mackenzie, 1979), Time Bandits (d. Terry Gilliam, 1981), A Private Function (d. Malcolm Mowbray, 1984), Mona Lisa (d. Neil Jordan, 1986) and the cult comedy Withnail & I (1987), as well as the superbly made The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (d. Jack Clayton, 1988).