Goodtimes Enterprises

Not to be confused with GoodTimes Entertainment.

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

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.


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