My all-time favourite film. I saw it when I was primary school kid back in the 70s and instantly related to it. At the time, I was also secretly in love with a classmate, which made it the more poignant. I would say Melody is one of the few utterly timeless films to exist. It never gets old. I've always wondered about the director. Never expected him to be called Waris Hussein - a more Anglo-Saxon name perhaps. That he had such an eye for this movie is astounding. I usually rewatch Melody a few times in a decade. Not just for the sweet love story, but the school system at the time, and the after-school jinks we got up to too. Grew up in Asia, but you know, it's no different from that school in London. Another kid movie that comes close to Melody is that Thai film Fan Chan (My Girl) in 2003. Another nostalgic throwback that's 10/10.

Gosh, this one really put an apple in my throat when I watched it years later. I was that kid, running around in 70s London, getting on and off buses with my mate Levan. It used to cost 10p, and I still remember the day that from N London we ended up in this place called... Tooting. Fortunately our parents never found out we were jumping on and off buses. And then in secondary, my first gf looked soooo much like Tracey Hyde that it made this film all the more relevant. I wasn't in a marching band but I was in the scouts for a time, and lining up at arms length was always a requirement. Jack Wild looked a lot like another good mate of mine, Andrew Paterson... There was nowhere I could look in this film that didn't immediately conjure up my own childhood. That London that no longer exists and I'm not gonna be an old fart and start saying "it was so much better back then". But it was! :))

Nice interview. Melody is one of my favourite films and Alan seemed to have great fondness for it.

Lovely hearing his story. One of my favorite films. I was the same age as the characters in 1971 but I didn’t see the movie until I was in my 20s.

My first favourite film. I'd seen it (at Saturday morning cinema I think) in the early 70s and it struck a chord with me then that has stayed with me all these years. I always knew the film as S.W.A.L.K. The ending was so romantic yet innocent and incredibly heart-warming. About a decade ago I tried finding a copy of the film and luckily a fan was selling copies and I got one. It's one of the few that I've not got rid of with digitization. A couple of years back I managed to find an original film poster, which is a treasured possession. Great to hear from Sir Alan. Back in the 00s I'd heard it was his first film and have watched his other films and followed his career ever since.

my life long favorite movie ever since my girl friend and I watch it in 1973. the song "in the morning" is my first English song, and from it I found the beauty of this language.

Un genio Parker en esta película. Fantástica!!!!

I was the same age as the protagonists when I saw it , so imagine how this impacted me as I completely identified with the first love story . One of my favourite movies.

Lovely interview about a charming film ❤️

Like others have commented, I am also the same age as the characters in the film, but never saw it at all until recently when I learned that Wes Anderson used it as inspiration (actually, quite a bit more than that) for "Moonrise Kingdom". When I found out that the film was written by one of my favorite directors, Alan Parker who also did "Mississipi Burning", "The Commitments", "The Wall" and "Midnight Express" I was floored. That aside, this is such a charming movie that tells a nice and unexpected story about two young kids who find love and want to get married. The acting is very good and the depiction of the drudgery of middle school life in England (and everywhere around the world...) is very poignant and sets the film firmly in reality and not fantasy, which is a great way to tell a story about children. I also notice that "Moonrise Kingdom" and "Melody" are different in that the former is set as a nostalgia piece, whereas, "Melody" is firmly set in its time of 1971, but because of the elemental nature of childhood it is timeless. We are sorely missing storytellers like Alan Parker, who could combine many different story types and visual styles to bring something new and fresh to the screen time after time.

If you all know, Wes Anderson was inspired by Melody for his movie Moonrise Kingdom in 2012, his one of most favourite movies in childhood

Acabei de assistir...uma obra de arte 🙏🙂🇧🇷

i just bought the 16mm cinema copy and will be screening it at my local church on film. got it for 70 pounds

Nice picture, lol.

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