Kes / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; Woodfall Films presents a Kestrel Films production ; adapted by Barry Hines, Kenneth Loach, Tony Garnett ; produced by Tony Garnett ; directed by Kenneth Loach.

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Εdition
Director-approved special ed.
Published/​Created
Irvington, NY : The Criterion Collection, ©2011.
Description
2 videodiscs (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Related work(s)
    Series
    Criterion collection ; 561. [More in this series]
    Medium/​Support
    • 4 3/4 in.
    • stamping rdapm
    Summary note
    A portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy is 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
    • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969.
    • From the book A kestrel for a knave by Barry Hines.
    • Special features: disc 1: newly restored digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Ken Loach and director of photography Chris Menges, with the filmmaker's original production soundtrack ; alternate, internationally released soundtrack, with postsync dialogue ; original theatrical trailer.
    • Special features: disc 2: Making "Kes," a new documentary featuring Loach, 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.
    Creation/​Production credits
    Photography, Chris Menges ; editor, Roy Watts ; art director, William McCrow ; music composed and conducted by John Cameron ; wardrobe, Daphne Dare.
    Target audience
    MPAA rating: PG-13; for language, nudity and some teen smoking.
    System details
    DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.; widescreen presentation, preserving the 1.66 :1 aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition, enhanced for 16:9 televisions.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    David Bradley (Billy), Colin Welland (Mr. Farthing), Lynne Perrie (Mrs. Casper), Freddie Fletcher (Jud), Brian Glover (Mr. Sugden), Bob Bowes (Mr. Gryce), and the staff and pupils of St. Helen's County Secondary School, Barnsley.
    Language note
    Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.
    Contents
    • disc 1. Feature film
    • disc 2. Special features.
    Other title(s)
    • South Bank show (Television program)
    • Cathy come home (Television program)
    ISBN
    • 9781604654127 ((paperback))
    • 1604654120 ((paperback))
    Publisher no.
    CC2001D
    OCLC
    710849095
    Universal Product Code
    • 715515070614
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