Kes
1970
Blu-ray
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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781604654110
Edition: Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Description:
- 1 videodisc (111 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- wide screen
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray video
- region A
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Based on the book "A kestrel for a knave" by Barry Hines.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.
- 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.
- Music, John Cameron ; photography, Chris Menges ; editor, Roy Watts.
- David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes.
- Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.66:1 aspect ratio) ; monaural.
- For private home use only.
- Audio track in English, captions in English.
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- CC2000BD
- CC2000BD
- CC2000BD
Control Number: 3324299
UPC:
- 715515070515
- 715515070515
- 715515070515
- 715515070515
Series:
Subjects:
- At-risk youth -- Fiction.
- Children of miners -- England, Northern -- Fiction.
- Coal mines and mining -- England, Northern -- Fiction.
- England, Northern -- Fiction.
- Falconry -- Fiction.
- Hines, Barry, 1939- Kestrel for a knave -- Film adaptations.
- Human-animal relationships -- Fiction.
- Kestrels -- Fiction.
- Teenage boys -- Fiction.
- Wildlife rehabilitation -- Fiction.
- Working class families -- England, Northern -- Fiction.
Genre:
- Coming-of-age films.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Bowes, Bob, actor.
- Bradley, David, 1953- actor.
- Cameron, John, 1944- composer.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
- Fletcher, Freddie, actor.
- Garnett, Tony, film producer.
- Garnett, Tony, screenwriter.
- Glover, Brian, 1934-1997, actor.
- Hines, Barry, 1939- screenwriter.
- Loach, Ken, 1936- film director.
- Loach, Ken, 1936- screenwriter.
- Perrie, Lynne, 1931-2006, actor.
- Welland, Colin, actor.
- Woodfall Film Productions, presenter.
- motion picture adaptation of (work): Hines, Barry, 1939- Kestrel for a knave.