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Special Features
Making “Kes”, a new documentary featuring Loach, Menges, producer Tony Garnett, and actor David Bradley
The Southbank Show: “Ken Loach” (1993), a profile of the filmmaker, featuring Loach, Garnett, directors Stephen Frears and Alan Parker, and other Loach collaborators
Cathy Come Home (1967), a feature directed by Loach and produced by Garnett, with an introduction by film writer Graham Fuller
Original theatrical trailer
PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by Fuller
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Product Description
Named by the British Film Institute as one of the ten best British films of the century, Kes, from Ken Loach (Hidden Agenda, The Wind That Shakes the Barley), is cinema’s quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy (an astonishingly naturalistic David Bradley) 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. Kes established the sociopolitical engagement and artistic brilliance of its filmmaker, and pushed the British “angry young man” film of the sixties into a new realm of authenticity, using real locations and nonprofessional actors. Loach’s poignant coming-of-age drama remains its now legendary director’s most beloved and influential film.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delicate and haunting film!,
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This review is from: Kes [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2.4 Import - Australia] (DVD)
A beautiful and tender story that turns around a 15 year-old Yorkshire boy who tames and trains his pet. One of the most remarkable films of that decade directed by that young and raising promise. Ken Loach.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If your out there please release on region1!!!,
By a reader "dendera" (Gloucester MA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kes [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2.4 Import - Australia] (DVD)
This film is so beautiful-i saw it in the U.K.I really wish they would release in U.S format so i could have it to keeeep!!It is very realistic real film that gets right under your skin and into the little boy's head.Life is stark and hard for him but when he flys or handles that bird ,it sets his soul free.Not much time left-he's soon going to grow up and have to work in the mine and be smothered by mundane grind like folks around him.Heartbreaking without an once of sentimentality so this film gets you.Somewhat upsetting.But so goddam beautiful.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant.,
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This review is from: Kes [NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2.4 Import - Australia] (DVD)
I enjoyed this story when I read it at school in the 70's and this is the fourth or fifth time I have watched the movie.
Very realistic socially (I grew up just a few miles from where this is filmed) and don't doubt that the PE teacher is based in reality. Touching and emotional.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Touching Coming-of-Age Drama
"Kes," named one of the ten best films of the century by the British Film Institute, is director Ken Loach's portrait of working-class Northern England.
Published 1 day ago by The Movie Man
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not my favorite Ken Loach movie
Picked this up due to it being by Ken Loach, director. It's not a really fast movie, in fact its mostly pretty slow.
Published 12 days ago by C. Rocklein
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Kes [Region 2]
DVD based on the book A Kestrel for a Knave. Quality of the DVD was excellent. The dialect may pose a problem to unfamiliar ears but it wasn't as bad as I had expected.
Published on July 4, 2008 by Loving Father
4.0 out of 5 stars
"Region free" player needed.
Hi all, a wonderful story. It's not everyday that you see a movie about this subject. I confess that I love movies of odd topics, I love birds of prey, and I adore films that...
Published on May 24, 2007 by Stephen Thoemmes
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