TY - ADVS AU - Loach,Ken AU - Garnett,Tony AU - Bradley,David AU - Welland,Colin AU - Perrie,Lynne AU - Fletcher,Freddie AU - Glover,Brian AU - Bowes,Bob AU - Cameron,John AU - Hines,Barry ED - Woodfall Film Productions. ED - Kestrel Films. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) TI - Kes T2 - The Criterion collection SN - 9781604654127 AV - PN1997 .K47 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - [United States] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Hines, Barry, KW - Coal mines and mining KW - England KW - Barnsley (South Yorkshire) KW - Drama KW - Working class KW - Teenage boys KW - Kestrels KW - Falconry KW - Wildlife rehabilitation KW - Film adaptations KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Motion pictures, British N1 - DVD release of the 1969 motion picture; 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; disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features; Music, John Cameron ; photography, Chris Menges ; editor, Roy Watts; David Bradley, Colin Welland, Lynne Perrie, Freddie Fletcher, Brian Glover, Bob Bowes; MPAA rating: PG-13; for language, nudity and some teen smoking N2 - 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 ER -