Kes

Author

Ken Loach

Call Number

• DVD DRAMA (CEN)

Edition

DVD special ed.

Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

David Bradley, Colin Welland, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2011]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (unpaged : col. ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; language, nudity and some teen smoking.

Summary

This portrait of working-class Northern England follows Billy, a fifteen-year-old miner's son, whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.

Notes

Title from container.

From the book "A kestrel for a knave" by Barry Hines.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1970.

Special features: newly restored digital transfer with the original production soundtrack ; alternate, internationally released soundtrack, with postsync dialogue ; original theatrical trailer ; Making "Kes," a new documentary featuring Ken Loach, Chris Menges, producer Tony Garnett, and actor David Bradley ; The Southbank show: "Ken Loach," a 1993 profile ; Cathy come home (1966), an early television feature by Loach, with an afterword by film writer Graham Fuller.