Reminded by The One Show what a wonderful movie this was. Must buy the DVD and watch it again.

JK2006 wrote:
Reminded by The One Show what a wonderful movie this was. Must buy the DVD and watch it again.


I had the DVD sold it few years ago, the DVD could with a modern digital clean up maybe from the BFI.

Criterion Collection have done an HD transfer Only on region one Blu Ray at present.



www.blu-ray.com/movies/Kes-Blu-ray/19909/

Brilliant film, but somehow incredibly depressing at the end. Ring of Bright Water was similar in this respect and made around the same time - don't watch the last 10-15 minutes.

giles2008 wrote:
Criterion Collection have done an HD transfer Only on region one Blu Ray at present.



www.blu-ray.com/movies/Kes-Blu-ray/19909/

Criterion releases are the best for the oldies.

Also look for releases by Kino.

Interesting back story about what happened to the lead child actor before he was discovered and then after the movie was completed. Seems to be making spare cash signing dvd's now. A very reluctant leading actor.

Love this -

One of my favourite movies because I could identify with it. Got on my motorbike a while ago and rode up to Barnsley where it was filmed and had a look at some of the locations. A lot different today of course.

Read the book in school.it was in the form of a script with the class reading out the parts.I was billy.was surprised that there was swearing in it and I had to read it out.I remember being a bit embarrassed.

manticore wrote:
Read the book in school.it was in the form of a script with the class reading out the parts.I was billy.was surprised that there was swearing in it and I had to read it out.I remember being a bit embarrassed.

It was only 'Bastard' I was told.

I remember reading the book in school and like my fellow poster been excited about reading out "swear" words like bastard. Also we were shown the the video in school to accompany an english class.
It was an old top loading betamax and I remember it contains nudity (from the back) of underage boys. Probably quite dodgy to show this today in a school.

It later became one of my favourite films, and alongside Gregory's girl shows the most realistic depiction of life in a comprehensive school in Britain. You can't see the join between this and real life, something you can never say about hollywood films.