{"id":1512,"date":"2025-10-23T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:13:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:13:04","slug":"kes-thursday-october-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/23\/kes-thursday-october-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Kes. Not a dry eye in the house."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kes1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1518\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Loache&#8217;s beautiful 1969 film <em>Kes <\/em>quietly moved us to tears tonight. The heavy South Yorkshire accent was challenging even with the aid of subtitles, which were peppered with &#8220;Thee&#8221;s and &#8220;Thou&#8221;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes bleak, sometimes rich, and not without a few laughs&#8230; I was proud to bring this classic to NewScreen&#8230; finally.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0064541\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Loache&#8217;s beautiful 1969 film Kes quietly moved us to tears tonight. The heavy South Yorkshire accent was challenging even with the aid of subtitles, which were peppered with &#8220;Thee&#8221;s and &#8220;Thou&#8221;s. Sometimes bleak, sometimes rich, and not without a few laughs&#8230; I was proud to bring this classic to NewScreen&#8230; finally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}