Exclusive: Ken Loach has been restored to a decision-making role at Bectu after his shock suspension last year, but a bitter internal row at the UK’s biggest film and TV union shows no sign of abating.
Deadline revealed in December that Loach, the esteemed BAFTA-winning British film director, was ousted from Bectu’s Writers, Producers & Directors (Wpd) branch committee after a 60-year association with the union. Two others were also suspended and six more members faced disciplinary measures.
An appeals board at Bectu’s parent union Prospect has now reversed the suspension, meaning Loach and others can be restored to committee roles. Loach told Deadline that he was relieved that “commonsense had prevailed” and the process had underlined the importance of transparency within trade unions.
Loach and his colleagues were disciplined over how the branch oversaw the resignation of a representative who wrote a letter raising questions about the leadership of Mike Clancy,...
Deadline revealed in December that Loach, the esteemed BAFTA-winning British film director, was ousted from Bectu’s Writers, Producers & Directors (Wpd) branch committee after a 60-year association with the union. Two others were also suspended and six more members faced disciplinary measures.
An appeals board at Bectu’s parent union Prospect has now reversed the suspension, meaning Loach and others can be restored to committee roles. Loach told Deadline that he was relieved that “commonsense had prevailed” and the process had underlined the importance of transparency within trade unions.
Loach and his colleagues were disciplined over how the branch oversaw the resignation of a representative who wrote a letter raising questions about the leadership of Mike Clancy,...
- 4/3/2024
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Ken Loach says he has “great respect” for Jonathan Glazer in raising the subject of Gaza in his Oscars acceptance speech for “The Zone of Interest,” asserting that the director was “very brave” to say what he did. “And I’m sure he understood the possible consequences, which makes him braver still, so I’ve got great respect for him and his work,” he tells Variety.
The veteran filmmaker and campaigner is speaking ahead of the U.S. release of “The Old Oak,” a feature that also happens to be his last. After a career of more than 60 years, the British director — a two-time Palme d’Or winner who is behind a library of beloved films including “Kes,” “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” “Land and Freedom,” “Sweet Sixteen,” “My Name is Joe” and “I, Daniel Blake” — is calling it a day.
Loach has announced his retirement before, of course,...
The veteran filmmaker and campaigner is speaking ahead of the U.S. release of “The Old Oak,” a feature that also happens to be his last. After a career of more than 60 years, the British director — a two-time Palme d’Or winner who is behind a library of beloved films including “Kes,” “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” “Land and Freedom,” “Sweet Sixteen,” “My Name is Joe” and “I, Daniel Blake” — is calling it a day.
Loach has announced his retirement before, of course,...
- 4/2/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
The biggest night for British film proved to be a major one for Christopher Nolan. After reigniting the summer box office alongside Barbie, his atomic bomb biopic Oppenheimer led the way at the BAFTAs 2024, earning seven awards on the night – including the most hotly-contested categories. As well as Best Film, a Directing win for Nolan himself, and Acting awards for Cillian Murphy (Leading) and Robert Downey Jr. (Supporting), it bagged the likes of Best Score for Ludwig Goransson, Editing, and Cinematography for Hoyte Van Hoytema.
Nolan called it “an incredible honour” to be recognised on home turf in the UK. The ceremony took place at the Royal Festival Hall, “where my mum and dad used to drag me to make me get some culture,” he remembered. “Some of it stuck.” As well as thanking the “fearless and peerless” Cillian Murphy, and his producer – and wife – Emma Thomas (“I love you”) in his Director speech,...
Nolan called it “an incredible honour” to be recognised on home turf in the UK. The ceremony took place at the Royal Festival Hall, “where my mum and dad used to drag me to make me get some culture,” he remembered. “Some of it stuck.” As well as thanking the “fearless and peerless” Cillian Murphy, and his producer – and wife – Emma Thomas (“I love you”) in his Director speech,...
- 2/18/2024
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
Ken Loach, director and trade unionist of sixty years, has had his decision-making privileges as member of Bectu’s Writers, Producers & Directors branch committee revoked. More below:
There’s a headline we didn’t think we’d be writing today.
Ken Loach, the outspoken filmmaker best-known for social dramas such as Kes, The Wind That Shakes The Barley and this year’s The Old Oak, has been suspended from UK film and TV union Bectu over internal divisions with parent union, Prospect.
According to Deadline, Loach was suspended along with two other Bectu members, while another six were issued with disciplinary measures.
The group say they are being punished over a technicality surrounding the resignation of a representative from within the branch, who previously critiqued the leadership of Prospect chief Mike Clancy.
Prospect said the individuals involved broke union rules, and that there was evidence bullying and discrimination had taken place.
There’s a headline we didn’t think we’d be writing today.
Ken Loach, the outspoken filmmaker best-known for social dramas such as Kes, The Wind That Shakes The Barley and this year’s The Old Oak, has been suspended from UK film and TV union Bectu over internal divisions with parent union, Prospect.
According to Deadline, Loach was suspended along with two other Bectu members, while another six were issued with disciplinary measures.
The group say they are being punished over a technicality surrounding the resignation of a representative from within the branch, who previously critiqued the leadership of Prospect chief Mike Clancy.
Prospect said the individuals involved broke union rules, and that there was evidence bullying and discrimination had taken place.
- 12/22/2023
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
‘How To Have Sex’ and ‘Femme’ also clinched key prizes.
Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers was the major winner at the British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), with How To Have Sex and Femme also scooping key prizes.
The awards unfurled tonight (December 3) in London’s Old Billingsgate, with a ceremony hosted by stars of TV comedy Ghosts, Lolly Adefope and Kiell Smith-Bynoe. The joyous hosts opened the ceremony with a tribute to British independent film. “This is going to be the best night of our lives,” said Smith-Bynoe. Adefope described UK indie cinema as the “much-needed remedy” for Hollywood franchise features,...
Andrew Haigh’s All Of Us Strangers was the major winner at the British Independent Film Awards (Bifas), with How To Have Sex and Femme also scooping key prizes.
The awards unfurled tonight (December 3) in London’s Old Billingsgate, with a ceremony hosted by stars of TV comedy Ghosts, Lolly Adefope and Kiell Smith-Bynoe. The joyous hosts opened the ceremony with a tribute to British independent film. “This is going to be the best night of our lives,” said Smith-Bynoe. Adefope described UK indie cinema as the “much-needed remedy” for Hollywood franchise features,...
- 12/3/2023
- by Mona Tabbara¬Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
Nothing quite hits like a tale straight from the heart and after realising he needed to find his own authentic authorial voice, filmmaker Joshua Okwuosa set out to tell an evocative story central to the Nigerian experience and his own life with Okem. A story with origins that are hauntingly commonplace, Okwuosa maintains the verisimilitude of his storytelling by ratcheting up the tension as we focus on the helpless and desperate attempts made by Nigerian immigrant Okem to help his mother back home. Okem is a sharp reminder of the brutal realities faced by people all over the world who are forced to leave their homelands in the hope of providing for their families back home. Ahead of Okem’s premiere on the pages of Dn today, we were able to talk to Okwuosa about the struggles he faced finding an Igbo speaking actor for the role, building the claustrophobia...
- 11/27/2023
- by Sarah Smith
- Directors Notes
In The Old Oak, an English man and a Syrian woman become unlikely friends on one side of a simmering culture war. It’s the latest from Ken Loach and, if reports are true, it will be the 86-year-old director’s last. The Old Oak is, of course, a timely story about modern Britain, immigration, and xenophobia. It’s also a parting statement from Loach––one last rallying cry for solidarity––and a fitting coda to his six-decade long career.
It’s hard to imagine that Loach first made his name in 1964: viewers who watched Cathy Come Home on the BBC that week could have seen “Good Vibrations” go to number 1 on Top of The Pops. Seen by a quarter of the population, it in fact did change British attitudes towards homelessness. Occasionally to the point of self-parody, Loach has never stopped making that kind of film: stories purpose-built...
It’s hard to imagine that Loach first made his name in 1964: viewers who watched Cathy Come Home on the BBC that week could have seen “Good Vibrations” go to number 1 on Top of The Pops. Seen by a quarter of the population, it in fact did change British attitudes towards homelessness. Occasionally to the point of self-parody, Loach has never stopped making that kind of film: stories purpose-built...
- 6/3/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Ken Loach admits that 'The Old Oak' is likely to be his final film.The 86-year-old director believes that the upcoming flick – which is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month - will probably be the last time he gets behind the camera as he will be too old to do so in the coming years.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Ken said: "Films take a couple of years and I'll be nearly 90. And your facilities do decline. Your short-term memory goes and my eyesight is pretty rubbish now, so it's quite tricky."The 'Kes' director says he had no issues coping with the demands of making a film but does find it harder to sustain the "good humour" and "nervous emotional energy" to set the tempo during a film shoot and keep momentum going.Loach went into the movie knowing that it would be his swansong.
- 4/25/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Cinematography retrospectives are the way to go—more than a thorough display of talent, it exposes the vast expanse a Dp will travel, like an education in form and business all the same. Accordingly I’m happy to see the Criterion Channel give a 25-film tribute to James Wong Howe, whose career spanned silent cinema to the ’70s, populated with work by Howard Hawks, Michael Curtz, Samuel Fuller, Alexander Mackendrick, Sydney Pollack, John Frankenheimer, and Raoul Walsh.
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
Further retrospectives are granted to Romy Schneider (recent repertory sensation La piscine among them), Carlos Saura (finally a chance to see Peppermint frappe!), the British New Wave, and groundbreaking distributor Cinema 5, who brought to U.S. shores everything from The Man Who Fell to Earth and Putney Swope to Pumping Iron and Scenes from a Marriage.
September also yields streaming premieres for the recently restored Bronco Bullfrog, Ang Lee’s Pushing Hands,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
CEO Paul Reeve calls for film to be used more widely as educational, cultural and social tools
UK film educational charity Into Film has today launched a new free streaming platform called Into Film + to provide a curated selection of films for all state schools all across the UK.
Around 27,000 schools in locations ranging from inner city London to the outer Hebrides will be able to benefit from the service, as long as they are signed up to the Pvsl (Public Video Screening License) scheme.
The new platform will also offer extensive resources for teachers of all age groups and subject areas.
UK film educational charity Into Film has today launched a new free streaming platform called Into Film + to provide a curated selection of films for all state schools all across the UK.
Around 27,000 schools in locations ranging from inner city London to the outer Hebrides will be able to benefit from the service, as long as they are signed up to the Pvsl (Public Video Screening License) scheme.
The new platform will also offer extensive resources for teachers of all age groups and subject areas.
- 6/8/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: One week after we brought you news of his app Erupt, today we can reveal that film and Broadway producer Edward Walson (Blue Jasmine) is launching Curia, a curated film streaming SVOD platform.
The idea behind the platform — which is initially only available in the U.S. — is to offer rotating monthly programming organized into niche sub-genres. Organizers say the service will be a fixture on the film festival circuit — including the upcoming Cannes Film Festival and market — with an appetite for new, exclusive acquisitions, including shorts.
The lineup will include auteur-driven cinema, movie classics and some commercially-minded fare. The first month’s programming in June will include sections such as Lol (comedies), Growing Pains (coming-of-age), Les Provocateurs and LGBTQ Pride.
Movies at launch will include Some Like It Hot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, In The Loop, Capote, Birdman Of Alcatraz, Paths Of Glory, A Ciambra, Boyhood, The Selfish Giant,...
The idea behind the platform — which is initially only available in the U.S. — is to offer rotating monthly programming organized into niche sub-genres. Organizers say the service will be a fixture on the film festival circuit — including the upcoming Cannes Film Festival and market — with an appetite for new, exclusive acquisitions, including shorts.
The lineup will include auteur-driven cinema, movie classics and some commercially-minded fare. The first month’s programming in June will include sections such as Lol (comedies), Growing Pains (coming-of-age), Les Provocateurs and LGBTQ Pride.
Movies at launch will include Some Like It Hot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, In The Loop, Capote, Birdman Of Alcatraz, Paths Of Glory, A Ciambra, Boyhood, The Selfish Giant,...
- 5/26/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Welcome to this week’s Impact Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have the final pitch for Turning Point, which has a solid card. To celebrate this weekend’s show, we have an excerpt from an interview with David Bradley on his classic picture, “Kes”:
David Bradley: They killed me f—kin bird! I liked that bird! It was me friend! They killed me f—kin bird!
Interviewer: David…that was a movie. It was a Ken Loach film…
Db: Movie?! Waa?!
In: “Kes” is a movie based on a book.
Db: Bull-s—t! They killed me f—kin bird!
In: David…didn’t you see the cameras when they were filming?
Db: They filmed them killin’ me f—kin bird?! Snuffers! Snuffers the lot of them! They Kentucky fried me chick’n!
In: David, calm down…
Db: Me bird was gonna go...
David Bradley: They killed me f—kin bird! I liked that bird! It was me friend! They killed me f—kin bird!
Interviewer: David…that was a movie. It was a Ken Loach film…
Db: Movie?! Waa?!
In: “Kes” is a movie based on a book.
Db: Bull-s—t! They killed me f—kin bird!
In: David…didn’t you see the cameras when they were filming?
Db: They filmed them killin’ me f—kin bird?! Snuffers! Snuffers the lot of them! They Kentucky fried me chick’n!
In: David, calm down…
Db: Me bird was gonna go...
- 11/11/2020
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
Above: Us one sheet for Kes.With Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You opening in the U.S. next week, I thought it would be as good as time as ever to look back over the posters for one of Britain’s greatest living filmmakers. Starting in 1965 with a celebrated series of docudramas for the BBC, Loach, now 83, has been making films for over half a century and has won the Palme d’Or not once but twice. Between Poor Cow in 1967 and Sorry We Missed You in 2019 he has directed 25 feature films, mostly concerned with the lives and labors of the British working class. But the problem with going through Loach’s impressive filmography in posters is that, for the most part, the posters for his later films just aren’t that interesting. There is something about Loach’s urgent, low-key social realism that doesn’t really lend itself to particularly interesting design.
- 2/27/2020
- MUBI
Garnett also worked on Earth Girls Are Easy and seminal TV drama Cathy Come Home.
Tony Garnett, the film and television producer behind Ken Loach’s breakthrough features, has died aged 83.
The British producer collaborated with Loach from 1965 to 1979 on films including Kes, Family Life and Black Jack as well as seminal TV drama Cathy Come Home.
World Productions, the company he co-founded in 1990, said in a statement: “After a short illness, Tony Garnett, the legendary TV and film producer… died around midday on January 12. Tony was a great man and an inspirational producer who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.
Tony Garnett, the film and television producer behind Ken Loach’s breakthrough features, has died aged 83.
The British producer collaborated with Loach from 1965 to 1979 on films including Kes, Family Life and Black Jack as well as seminal TV drama Cathy Come Home.
World Productions, the company he co-founded in 1990, said in a statement: “After a short illness, Tony Garnett, the legendary TV and film producer… died around midday on January 12. Tony was a great man and an inspirational producer who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.
- 1/13/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
British film and TV producer Tony Garnett, founder of “Bodyguard” producer World Productions, died Sunday at the age of 83.
His death was confirmed by the ITV Studios-backed World Productions, which released the following statement Sunday night: “After a short illness, Tony Garnett, the legendary TV and film producer and founder of World Productions, died around midday on January 12. Tony was a great man and an inspirational producer who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.”
The Birmingham, U.K.-born Garnett began his career as an actor in the 1960s before going on to produce TV movies such as “Cathy Come Home” and “Kes” with “I, Daniel Blake” director Ken Loach – a frequent collaborator.
His work was known for a hard-nosed social realism that tackled issues such as homelessness and abortion.
Garnett worked in Hollywood in the 1980s, where he produced films such as “Earth Girls Are Easy,...
His death was confirmed by the ITV Studios-backed World Productions, which released the following statement Sunday night: “After a short illness, Tony Garnett, the legendary TV and film producer and founder of World Productions, died around midday on January 12. Tony was a great man and an inspirational producer who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him.”
The Birmingham, U.K.-born Garnett began his career as an actor in the 1960s before going on to produce TV movies such as “Cathy Come Home” and “Kes” with “I, Daniel Blake” director Ken Loach – a frequent collaborator.
His work was known for a hard-nosed social realism that tackled issues such as homelessness and abortion.
Garnett worked in Hollywood in the 1980s, where he produced films such as “Earth Girls Are Easy,...
- 1/13/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
Tony Garnett Dies: Founder Of ‘Bodyguard’ Producer World Productions & Ken Loach Collaborator Was 83
Tony Garnett, founder of Bodyguard and Line of Duty producer World Productions and regular collaborator of Ken Loach, died Sunday at 83.
The news was confirmed in a statement from World, the company he founded in 1990.
“After a short illness, Tony Garnett, the legendary TV & Film Producer and founder of World Productions, died around midday on January 12. Tony was a great man and an inspirational producer who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him,” World Productions said.
Garnett produced series including BBC dramas This Life and Between the Lines and worked with British director Loach on films including Kes and Cathy Come Home.
He was celebrated Sunday by a number of figures in the British TV industry including Good Omens director Douglas McKinnon, who called Garnett a “remarkable person.”
Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio said: “Very sad to hear of Tony Garnett’s death. Tony was instrumental in giving me...
The news was confirmed in a statement from World, the company he founded in 1990.
“After a short illness, Tony Garnett, the legendary TV & Film Producer and founder of World Productions, died around midday on January 12. Tony was a great man and an inspirational producer who will be sorely missed by everyone who knew him,” World Productions said.
Garnett produced series including BBC dramas This Life and Between the Lines and worked with British director Loach on films including Kes and Cathy Come Home.
He was celebrated Sunday by a number of figures in the British TV industry including Good Omens director Douglas McKinnon, who called Garnett a “remarkable person.”
Bodyguard creator Jed Mercurio said: “Very sad to hear of Tony Garnett’s death. Tony was instrumental in giving me...
- 1/13/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryutaro Ninomiya studied Film Production for a year, after which he decided to follow an acting course. He made his first feature film “The Charm of Others” in 2012. The film won the runner-up at the largest indie film festival in Japan, Pia Film Festival. It was shown at many film festivals around the world including Vancouver International Film Festival and Iffr. He then acted in two films before making his second feature film “Sweating the Small Stuff” (2017), in which he plays the main lead.
“Sweating the Small Stuff” screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam
As a writer, director, actor and screenwriter, is there one role that you prefer? Or one that you find more challenging? Why did you cast yourself as the protagonist?
I like all the roles in making a movie. For “Sweating the small stuff”, I thought it was the best choice for me to play the role.
“Sweating the Small Stuff” screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam
As a writer, director, actor and screenwriter, is there one role that you prefer? Or one that you find more challenging? Why did you cast yourself as the protagonist?
I like all the roles in making a movie. For “Sweating the small stuff”, I thought it was the best choice for me to play the role.
- 1/12/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Sorry We Missed You,” Ken Loach’s follow-up to his Palme d’Or winning “I, Daniel Blake,” has been acquired for U.S. theatrical release by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber, the distributor announced on Tuesday.
“Sorry We Missed You” premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will make its North American debut at Tiff early next month. Zeitgeist is also planning a release for the film in New York on March 6, 2020, followed by a national rollout, as well as on VOD and home video release via Kino Lorber shortly after.
The film reunites the “Kes” and “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” director Loach with his “I, Daniel Blake” team, including writer Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien on behalf of Loach’s company Sixteen Films.
Also Read: 'Sorry We Missed You' Film Review: Once Again, Ken Loach Sings the Working Class Blues
“Sorry...
“Sorry We Missed You” premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will make its North American debut at Tiff early next month. Zeitgeist is also planning a release for the film in New York on March 6, 2020, followed by a national rollout, as well as on VOD and home video release via Kino Lorber shortly after.
The film reunites the “Kes” and “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” director Loach with his “I, Daniel Blake” team, including writer Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien on behalf of Loach’s company Sixteen Films.
Also Read: 'Sorry We Missed You' Film Review: Once Again, Ken Loach Sings the Working Class Blues
“Sorry...
- 8/20/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Frank Rosso's Babylon (1980) is showing February 25 – March 26, 2019 on Mubi in the United Kingdom.Impressions of Franco Rosso’s Babylon (1980) extend past the boundaries of its 95-minute running time. Like the dub remixes its London characters’ lives revolve around, the movie plays with re-establishing identity and our experience of time. A narrative document of young, working class male Jamaican-British Londoners, Babylon doles out atmospheric city scenes of their place in the community: sons, brothers, boyfriends, small-time crooks, laborers, music lovers and producers. Privileging viewers with immersion into an insulated, under-documented immigrant community, the film provides a window into their daily lives. We are thrown into conversations and situations, intimately experiencing their patois their interactions with friends, their constant victimization by a dominantly racist white society, and the massive sound system parties they congregate to. A corrective to the British ignorance and fear of Jamaican immigrants, the film’s emphasis is on...
- 3/13/2019
- MUBI
Running from 1- 14 November in London before taking highlights around the country with its annual UK Tour, the festival will feature an in-depth special focus entitled A Slice of Everyday Life, along with an exciting mix of UK and International premieres, guests and events across a diverse set of strands; Cinema Now, Women’s Voices, Indie Firepower, Contemporary Classics, Artists Video, Animation and Shorts.
Korea is regularly in the world news cycle of late due to some tense international political
machinations. This year’s festival moves from this global outlook to an intimate view of the dayto-day lives and struggles of the people of the country on the ground. The 13th London Korean Film Festival proudly presents a programme that incorporates and engages with many of the topical conversations taking place in society today, through the international language of cinema.
Highlighting the festival’s dual commitment to championing the work...
Korea is regularly in the world news cycle of late due to some tense international political
machinations. This year’s festival moves from this global outlook to an intimate view of the dayto-day lives and struggles of the people of the country on the ground. The 13th London Korean Film Festival proudly presents a programme that incorporates and engages with many of the topical conversations taking place in society today, through the international language of cinema.
Highlighting the festival’s dual commitment to championing the work...
- 9/21/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
A young cast give brilliantly naturalistic performances in this glorious story
about a bunch of deprived kids living near Walt Disney World
The Florida Project is a song of innocence and of experience: mainly the former. It is a glorious film in which warmth and compassion win out over miserabilism or irony, painted in bright blocks of sunlit colour like a child’s storybook and often happening in those electrically charged magic-hour urban sunsets that the director Sean Baker also gave us in his zero-budget breakthrough Tangerine.
This also has the best child acting I have seen for years; in its humour and its unforced and almost miraculous naturalism it reminded me of British examples like Ken Loach’s Kes or Bryan Forbes’s Whistle Down the Wind. Steven Spielberg once said: “If you over-rehearse kids, you risk a bad case of the cutes.” But these kids don’t look...
about a bunch of deprived kids living near Walt Disney World
The Florida Project is a song of innocence and of experience: mainly the former. It is a glorious film in which warmth and compassion win out over miserabilism or irony, painted in bright blocks of sunlit colour like a child’s storybook and often happening in those electrically charged magic-hour urban sunsets that the director Sean Baker also gave us in his zero-budget breakthrough Tangerine.
This also has the best child acting I have seen for years; in its humour and its unforced and almost miraculous naturalism it reminded me of British examples like Ken Loach’s Kes or Bryan Forbes’s Whistle Down the Wind. Steven Spielberg once said: “If you over-rehearse kids, you risk a bad case of the cutes.” But these kids don’t look...
- 11/9/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Streaming might represent the future of film, but that future doesn’t have to come at the expense of its past. Netflix, however, doesn’t seem to care. A platform so monolithic that it’s become synonymous with streaming itself, Netflix may offer a seemingly bottomless library of content, but their “classic movies” section contains a whopping 42 titles, and one of them is “The Parent Trap.” No disrespect to “The Parent Trap” — a movie so good that it was rendered obsolete by a remake starring Lindsay Lohan — but it’s not exactly “Citizen Kane.” Hell, it’s not even “Citizen Ruth.” It feels like these films were left here by accident, like someone came by to clear out space for a new season of “Fuller House” and this random selection of stuff is just what fell through the cracks.
Physical media and repertory screenings are still the best options for cinephiles,...
Physical media and repertory screenings are still the best options for cinephiles,...
- 10/11/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
This week’s question: In honor of “The Florida Project,” which has just started its platform release across the country, what is the greatest child performance in a film?
Jordan Hoffman (@JHoffman), The Guardian, Vanity Fair
I can agonize over this question or I can go at this Malcolm Gladwell “Blink”-style. My answer is Tatum O’Neal in “Paper Moon.” She’s just so funny and tough, which of course makes the performance all the more heartbreaking. She won the freaking Oscar at age 10 for this and I’d really love to give a more deep cut response, but why screw around? Paper Moon is a perfect film and she is the lynchpin.
This week’s question: In honor of “The Florida Project,” which has just started its platform release across the country, what is the greatest child performance in a film?
Jordan Hoffman (@JHoffman), The Guardian, Vanity Fair
I can agonize over this question or I can go at this Malcolm Gladwell “Blink”-style. My answer is Tatum O’Neal in “Paper Moon.” She’s just so funny and tough, which of course makes the performance all the more heartbreaking. She won the freaking Oscar at age 10 for this and I’d really love to give a more deep cut response, but why screw around? Paper Moon is a perfect film and she is the lynchpin.
- 10/9/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Any list of the greatest foreign directors currently working today has to include Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The directors first rose to prominence in the mid 1990s with efforts like “The Promise” and “Rosetta,” and they’ve continued to excel in the 21st century with titles such as “The Kid With A Bike” and “Two Days One Night,” which earned Marion Cotillard a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
Read MoreThe Dardenne Brothers’ Next Film Will Be a Terrorism Drama
The directors will be back in U.S. theaters with the release of “The Unknown Girl” on September 8, which is a long time coming considering the film first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016. While you continue to wait for their new movie, the brothers have provided their definitive list of 79 movies from the 20th century that you must see. La Cinetek published the list in full and is hosting many...
- 8/7/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Hello and welcome back to our roundup of what’s happening on stage and screen! Loach on Brexit.It’s not unlike the veteran film director Ken Loach to be political. His films have mapped the mood of the nation on key issues such as homelessness in “Cathy Come Home” and working class culture and ambition in “Kes”. Most recently, his Palme d’Or-winning “I, Daniel Blake” stared the bureaucratic cruelty of austerity straight in the eye. Loach frequently side steps the camera and speaks out in public, especially against successive Conservative governments, the BBC, and the wider film and TV industry. In 2016 he called light historical drama programmes such as “Downton Abbey” a “rosy vision of the past” and said that “TV drama is like the picture on the Quality Street tin, but with with less quality and nothing of the street.” Last week, Ken used an interview with...
- 7/11/2017
- backstage.com
Ken Loach, British filmmaker and champion of radical causes, says Brexit — the U.K.'s planned withdrawal from the European Union — will put obstacles in the way of funding U.K. co-productions.
The veteran filmmaker — whose commitment to films that promote radical social and political causes stretches back to the 1960s with TV drama Cathy Come Home and features such as Kes — says that although Britain's recent general election ended in a hung parliament with its prime minister, Theresa May, much weakened, some form of Brexit is likely.
"There will be some form of leaving the EU," said Loach....
The veteran filmmaker — whose commitment to films that promote radical social and political causes stretches back to the 1960s with TV drama Cathy Come Home and features such as Kes — says that although Britain's recent general election ended in a hung parliament with its prime minister, Theresa May, much weakened, some form of Brexit is likely.
"There will be some form of leaving the EU," said Loach....
- 7/4/2017
- by Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I, Daniel Blake director spoke to Screen following the election result.
Veteran left-wing filmmaker Ken Loach has told Screen that today’s surprise election outcome came as a result of people being “revolted by the Tories’ politics”.
The I, Daniel Blake director, who like many was up late into the night watching the drama on TV, told Screen:
“[Labour leader] Jeremy Corbyn and [Shadow Chancellor] John McDonnell did surprisingly well given that they were fighting the election in the teeth of a gale from a deeply hostile press and media. They showed the extent to which people are concerned with ‘real life’ issue such as health, housing and schooling, in contrast to the commentators who had their eyes firmly fixed on Brexit.”
“Of course, it’s a pity that Labour didn’t win but just think that if Labour MPs hadn’t spent the last two years trying to undermine Corbyn they should have won,” he commented...
Veteran left-wing filmmaker Ken Loach has told Screen that today’s surprise election outcome came as a result of people being “revolted by the Tories’ politics”.
The I, Daniel Blake director, who like many was up late into the night watching the drama on TV, told Screen:
“[Labour leader] Jeremy Corbyn and [Shadow Chancellor] John McDonnell did surprisingly well given that they were fighting the election in the teeth of a gale from a deeply hostile press and media. They showed the extent to which people are concerned with ‘real life’ issue such as health, housing and schooling, in contrast to the commentators who had their eyes firmly fixed on Brexit.”
“Of course, it’s a pity that Labour didn’t win but just think that if Labour MPs hadn’t spent the last two years trying to undermine Corbyn they should have won,” he commented...
- 6/9/2017
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Kenji Mizoguchi, Jirí Brdecka tributes planned for 52nd edition.
The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) will present a Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema to British director Ken Loach.
The award will be shared with his long-time screenwriter Paul Laverty. The pair have collaborated on twelve feature films and two shorts, including The Wind That Shakes The Barley and more recently the Palme d’Or and Bafta-winning I, Daniel Blake.
Loach has a long and fruitful relationship with the Karlovy Vary festival. In 1968, his feature debut Poor Cow won a special jury prize and best actress for its star Carol White. A year later, his second film Kes won the festival’s Crystal Globe, and he has been a guest at the festival on numerous occasions since.
Poor Cow
Karlovy Vary will also celebrate the work of composer James Newton Howard, whose credits include Pretty Woman, The Sixth Sense, [link...
The 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 30 - July 8) will present a Crystal Globe for outstanding contribution to world cinema to British director Ken Loach.
The award will be shared with his long-time screenwriter Paul Laverty. The pair have collaborated on twelve feature films and two shorts, including The Wind That Shakes The Barley and more recently the Palme d’Or and Bafta-winning I, Daniel Blake.
Loach has a long and fruitful relationship with the Karlovy Vary festival. In 1968, his feature debut Poor Cow won a special jury prize and best actress for its star Carol White. A year later, his second film Kes won the festival’s Crystal Globe, and he has been a guest at the festival on numerous occasions since.
Poor Cow
Karlovy Vary will also celebrate the work of composer James Newton Howard, whose credits include Pretty Woman, The Sixth Sense, [link...
- 4/25/2017
- by tom.grater@screendaily.com (Tom Grater)
- ScreenDaily
There is no filmmaker in the world more attuned to the complexities of family life than Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda. Consider the emotional upheaval that faces the parents and children of 2013’s Like Father, Like Son, or the relationship between the sisters of 2015’s Our Little Sister. Koreeda’s latest film following those two gems, After the Storm, continues his warm but ever-truthful gaze at what bonds people together. (Film Movement opens Storm on March 17 in New York and Los Angeles.)
Set against the backdrop of an approaching typhoon, Storm is the story of a failing author (Hiroshi Abe) struggling to pay his child support, and his attempts at rebuilding relationships with his son (Taiyo Yoshizawa) and ex-wife (Yoko Maki). As sweet and funny as the last two great Kore-eda films, Storm also has the sharp insight of earlier masterpieces like Nobody Knows and Still Walking.
Currently working on his next film,...
Set against the backdrop of an approaching typhoon, Storm is the story of a failing author (Hiroshi Abe) struggling to pay his child support, and his attempts at rebuilding relationships with his son (Taiyo Yoshizawa) and ex-wife (Yoko Maki). As sweet and funny as the last two great Kore-eda films, Storm also has the sharp insight of earlier masterpieces like Nobody Knows and Still Walking.
Currently working on his next film,...
- 3/16/2017
- by Christopher Schobert
- The Film Stage
One of the year’s most affecting, humanistic films, Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s After the Storm, will arrive in the U.S. this week (our rave review from Cannes), so for the occasion, we’re looking at the director’s favorite films. Submitted by the Japanese director for the latest Sight & Sound poll, it’s perhaps the most varied list we’ve seen thus far — at least next to Mia Hansen-Løve‘s favorites.
Although the filmmaker is often compared to Yasujiro Ozu (none of his films are mentioned below), Hirokazu Kore-eda told The Guardian, “I of course take it as a compliment. I try to say thank you. But I think that my work is more like Mikio Naruse — and Ken Loach.” One will find his favorites from both of those directors on the list, as well as Jacques Demy‘s most-praised film, along with lesser-seen works from Hou Hsiao-hsien,...
Although the filmmaker is often compared to Yasujiro Ozu (none of his films are mentioned below), Hirokazu Kore-eda told The Guardian, “I of course take it as a compliment. I try to say thank you. But I think that my work is more like Mikio Naruse — and Ken Loach.” One will find his favorites from both of those directors on the list, as well as Jacques Demy‘s most-praised film, along with lesser-seen works from Hou Hsiao-hsien,...
- 3/13/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Lewis MacDougall is remarkable as a young boy dealing with grief in an excellent adaptation of the Patrick Ness novel
A piercing sadness runs through this impressive adaptation, by Patrick Ness, of his acclaimed young adult novel. You ache for Conor, the 13-year-old boy at the heart of the story, as he struggles to process bereavement. You will be likely to weep with him as he comes to terms with the loss of his mother. This emotional authenticity, the palpable pain in a remarkable central performance from relative newcomer Lewis MacDougall, is both the film’s main asset and a factor that makes it a tough sell. This is not just a film about grief; it’s a film that immerses you in grief’s journey.
With his huge, hungry eyes, MacDougall has the vulnerability of David Bradley’s Billy in Kes. He tackles a complex, conflicted role with a confidence far beyond his years.
A piercing sadness runs through this impressive adaptation, by Patrick Ness, of his acclaimed young adult novel. You ache for Conor, the 13-year-old boy at the heart of the story, as he struggles to process bereavement. You will be likely to weep with him as he comes to terms with the loss of his mother. This emotional authenticity, the palpable pain in a remarkable central performance from relative newcomer Lewis MacDougall, is both the film’s main asset and a factor that makes it a tough sell. This is not just a film about grief; it’s a film that immerses you in grief’s journey.
With his huge, hungry eyes, MacDougall has the vulnerability of David Bradley’s Billy in Kes. He tackles a complex, conflicted role with a confidence far beyond his years.
- 1/8/2017
- by Wendy Ide
- The Guardian - Film News
Film-maker who co-wrote and directed the cult movie classic Babylon, 1980
The British film-maker Franco Rosso, who has died aged 75, always felt like an outsider, which may well account for the extraordinary empathy with the disaffected and marginalised that characterised his work. Beginning his career as an assistant editor on Ken Loach’s Kes (1969), he went on to create a series of hard-hitting documentaries and dramas, but it was arguably his first fiction film, Babylon (1980), that marked him out as a fearless chronicler of the dispossessed.
He was born in Turin to Angela (nee Cornaglia) and Egidio Rosso who, when Franco was eight, left their jobs at the Fiat motor factory and moved to London, where his grandfather had a cafe. They settled in Streatham, south-west London, and at the local schools he attended Franco developed a defiant, rebellious streak, a necessary defence, he said, against the postwar xenophobia he encountered:...
The British film-maker Franco Rosso, who has died aged 75, always felt like an outsider, which may well account for the extraordinary empathy with the disaffected and marginalised that characterised his work. Beginning his career as an assistant editor on Ken Loach’s Kes (1969), he went on to create a series of hard-hitting documentaries and dramas, but it was arguably his first fiction film, Babylon (1980), that marked him out as a fearless chronicler of the dispossessed.
He was born in Turin to Angela (nee Cornaglia) and Egidio Rosso who, when Franco was eight, left their jobs at the Fiat motor factory and moved to London, where his grandfather had a cafe. They settled in Streatham, south-west London, and at the local schools he attended Franco developed a defiant, rebellious streak, a necessary defence, he said, against the postwar xenophobia he encountered:...
- 1/2/2017
- by Martin Stellman
- The Guardian - Film News
Interview by Matthew Edwards
Tony Garnett is one of the most respected and celebrated British filmmakers of his generation having worked extensively in British television and through his work with critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Ken Loach, whom the pair worked together on the seminal British dramas Kes (1969) and Cathy Come Home (1966), both of which Garnett produced. Opting to move away from producing, Garnett set his sights on writing and directing his own feature films. After directing the critically acclaimed drama Prostitute (1980), Garnett went on to the write and direct the film Handgun (1983), a powerful cult rape and revenge thriller. Eschewing the exploitation motifs as explored in the genre titles such as Death Wish (1974), Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (1981) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978), favouring an art-house aesthetic and employing a docudrama stylistic approach, Garnett’s film is a measured exploration of the nature of injustice and retribution while a...
Tony Garnett is one of the most respected and celebrated British filmmakers of his generation having worked extensively in British television and through his work with critically acclaimed filmmakers such as Ken Loach, whom the pair worked together on the seminal British dramas Kes (1969) and Cathy Come Home (1966), both of which Garnett produced. Opting to move away from producing, Garnett set his sights on writing and directing his own feature films. After directing the critically acclaimed drama Prostitute (1980), Garnett went on to the write and direct the film Handgun (1983), a powerful cult rape and revenge thriller. Eschewing the exploitation motifs as explored in the genre titles such as Death Wish (1974), Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45 (1981) and I Spit on Your Grave (1978), favouring an art-house aesthetic and employing a docudrama stylistic approach, Garnett’s film is a measured exploration of the nature of injustice and retribution while a...
- 1/2/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Brexit of Champions: Loach’s Unadorned Blue Collar Melodrama Rages against the Machine
As he has been doing since he became an auteur of note in the late 1960s with docudrama shorts and the features Poor Cow (1967) and Kes (1969), Ken Loach continues to explore the precarious state of existence within the confines of social realism with I, Daniel Blake.
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As he has been doing since he became an auteur of note in the late 1960s with docudrama shorts and the features Poor Cow (1967) and Kes (1969), Ken Loach continues to explore the precarious state of existence within the confines of social realism with I, Daniel Blake.
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- 12/23/2016
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
This year’s Cannes Film Festival featured the premieres of many of the year’s most acclaimed films, including “American Honey,” “Elle,” “Toni Erdmann,” “Paterson” and more. But only one of the films in competition won the coveted Palme d’Or prize and that was Ken Loach’s “I, Daniel Blake,” about a middle-aged carpenter (Dave Johns) who requires state welfare after suffering a heart attack on the job and who befriends a single mother (Hayley Squires) in similarly dire straits. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below featuring Squires shoplifting at a store out of desperation.
Read More: Cannes Review: Why ‘I, Daniel Blake’ is Ken Loach’s Best Movie in Years
This is Loach’s 24th feature film. Some of his most acclaimed work includes the coming-of-age film “Kes,” “Hidden Agenda,” “Riff-Raff” and “The Wind That Shakes the Barley.” He has been nominated for two BAFTA Awards,...
Read More: Cannes Review: Why ‘I, Daniel Blake’ is Ken Loach’s Best Movie in Years
This is Loach’s 24th feature film. Some of his most acclaimed work includes the coming-of-age film “Kes,” “Hidden Agenda,” “Riff-Raff” and “The Wind That Shakes the Barley.” He has been nominated for two BAFTA Awards,...
- 12/19/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
It’s been a big year for the frustrations of the working class. From Brexit to Donald Trump, massive events with global impact have emerged from voters frustrated by the political establishment and eager for massive change, even if it has cataclysmic potential. While these pockets of society are only recently dominating the news cycle, British director Ken Loach has been scrutinizing them for decades.
Since the late sixties, Loach has played a critical role in the kitchen sink realism that became a pivotal force in British culture with films such as “Kes” and “Family Life.” At 80, Loach shows no sign of slowing: “I, Daniel Blake,” which stars Dave Johns as an out-of-work carpenter battling the healthcare system that denies him proper care. The film won Loach his second Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, 10 years after his first win with “The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
Since the late sixties, Loach has played a critical role in the kitchen sink realism that became a pivotal force in British culture with films such as “Kes” and “Family Life.” At 80, Loach shows no sign of slowing: “I, Daniel Blake,” which stars Dave Johns as an out-of-work carpenter battling the healthcare system that denies him proper care. The film won Loach his second Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, 10 years after his first win with “The Wind That Shakes the Barley.
- 11/23/2016
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
★★★★☆ Aside from the furore surrounding Ken Loach's latest Palme d'Or winning polemic on the inhumanities of the British welfare system, I, Daniel Blake, the re-release of his iconic 1969 drama Kes is a chance to explore a more poetic side of the prolific social realist filmmaker. Set in Barnsley in a dysfunctional, single-parent working class household, the narrative concerns itself with the youngest member of the family, Billy (David Bradley), and his bittersweet attempt to escape his bleak and downtrodden existence by capturing and training a wild kestrel.
- 11/12/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
As a 14-year-old boy from a mining community, he won a Bafta for his role in Ken Loach’s bleak film Kes. He explains why the sequel never got off the ground
David Bradley wants to meet in Barnsley. This is where he grew up. It is where Kes, the film that changed his life, was made, and where he still lives. He is waiting for me in the middle of the road as I come out of the station, waving exuberantly. He then drives me a few miles south to the village of Tankersley. It was here, in 1965, that author Barry Hines’s younger brother, Richard, trained a kestrel, homing her in the air-raid shelter at the bottom of Barry’s garden. Richard wanted to call her Kessy; Barry suggested Kes.
Related: Kes – review
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David Bradley wants to meet in Barnsley. This is where he grew up. It is where Kes, the film that changed his life, was made, and where he still lives. He is waiting for me in the middle of the road as I come out of the station, waving exuberantly. He then drives me a few miles south to the village of Tankersley. It was here, in 1965, that author Barry Hines’s younger brother, Richard, trained a kestrel, homing her in the air-raid shelter at the bottom of Barry’s garden. Richard wanted to call her Kessy; Barry suggested Kes.
Related: Kes – review
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- 10/27/2016
- by Alex Godfrey
- The Guardian - Film News
You only need to watch Ken Loach’s films to appreciate his fervent political viewpoint, implemented into his studies of working class Britain, across features ranging from Cathy Come Home, to Kes and now up to his latest endeavour, the winner of the Palme d’Or; I, Daniel Blake. We had the pleasure of sitting down with […]
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- 10/19/2016
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
He’s been a thorn in the establishment’s side since Cathy Come Home and Kes. At 80, he’s made his angriest film yet
Ken Loach sits with his hands clutching his chair for dear life, his head shrinking into his shoulders, a skinny question mark of a man. Never did a man appear so diffident. And then he opens his mouth.
Loach has spent the past half-century making films that shake with anger, and is just about to release his angriest yet. I, Daniel Blake, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes film festival, is about a man broken by the British benefits system. His doctor says he is too sick to work after a near-fatal heart attack, but the Department for Work and Pensions decides he is not entitled to sickness benefit. Blake finds himself trapped in a downward spiral after his jobseeker’s allowance is suspended,...
Ken Loach sits with his hands clutching his chair for dear life, his head shrinking into his shoulders, a skinny question mark of a man. Never did a man appear so diffident. And then he opens his mouth.
Loach has spent the past half-century making films that shake with anger, and is just about to release his angriest yet. I, Daniel Blake, winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes film festival, is about a man broken by the British benefits system. His doctor says he is too sick to work after a near-fatal heart attack, but the Department for Work and Pensions decides he is not entitled to sickness benefit. Blake finds himself trapped in a downward spiral after his jobseeker’s allowance is suspended,...
- 10/15/2016
- by Simon Hattenstone
- The Guardian - Film News
The New York Film Festival kicks off this week, sending us straight into the second half of a very busy fall festival season. In preparation for the festival, we’re rolling out a series of previews to point you in the direction of all the movies you have to see (or at least, all the movies you have to start anticipating right now). Today, some new offerings from cinema’s greatest master and auteurs — new, emerging and beloved.
“Manchester By The Sea,” Kenneth Lonergan
Over the course of just three feature films, multi-hyphenate Kenneth Lonergan has proven himself to be one of America’s most exciting rising auteurs. Uniquely capable of capturing great emotion without even a hint of melodrama or a single false note, his long-awaited follow-up to the grievously mistreated “Margaret” — perhaps this decade’s cinematic endeavor most deserving of critical reappraisal after critical reappraisal — again returns him...
“Manchester By The Sea,” Kenneth Lonergan
Over the course of just three feature films, multi-hyphenate Kenneth Lonergan has proven himself to be one of America’s most exciting rising auteurs. Uniquely capable of capturing great emotion without even a hint of melodrama or a single false note, his long-awaited follow-up to the grievously mistreated “Margaret” — perhaps this decade’s cinematic endeavor most deserving of critical reappraisal after critical reappraisal — again returns him...
- 9/30/2016
- by Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich, Eric Kohn, Chris O'Falt and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Veteran film-maker says he approached Labour leader’s campaign and documented ‘the optimism and hope’ of his supporters
Ken Loach, the veteran film-maker and chronicler of working class life, has filmed an hour-long promotional video for Jeremy Corbyn, to be shown to his supporters.
Loach, the director of Kes, The Wind That Shakes The Barley and I, Daniel Blake, filmed two Q&A sessions with supporters of the Labour leader in Sheffield and London for the propaganda video titled In Conversation with Jeremy Corbyn.
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Ken Loach, the veteran film-maker and chronicler of working class life, has filmed an hour-long promotional video for Jeremy Corbyn, to be shown to his supporters.
Loach, the director of Kes, The Wind That Shakes The Barley and I, Daniel Blake, filmed two Q&A sessions with supporters of the Labour leader in Sheffield and London for the propaganda video titled In Conversation with Jeremy Corbyn.
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- 9/19/2016
- by Jamie Grierson
- The Guardian - Film News
In the past few days our good friends at Eureka! Entertainment have announced a bevy of new titles, which they will be releasing in the coming months. Chief among these are new additions to their Masters of Cinema series, including Ken Loach’s seminal tale of working class adolescence in Northern England, Kes, which arrives on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK on 7 November. Before that, Robert Aldrich’s Twilight’s Last Gleaming, starring Burt Lancaster and Richard Widmark, gets a dual-format release on 17 October. These titles join the previously announced Fedora from Billy Wilder, starring William Holden, which also gets the dual-format treatment on 19 September, with Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory arriving on Blu-ray the same day, while another Aldrich classic, Flight...
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- 8/8/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Today's round of news and views opens with a review of Superior Viaduct's release of the audio track of Chris Marker’s La Jetée on vinyl. Plus: Essays on Nicholas Ray, Eric Rohmer and Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, Ida Lupino, Marguerite Duras, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Holt, a book on Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, remembering the actual Big Lebowski, David Huddleston, interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, Kent Jones, Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, a trailer for the new restoration of Ken Loach's Kes—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/7/2016
- Keyframe
Today's round of news and views opens with a review of Superior Viaduct's release of the audio track of Chris Marker’s La Jetée on vinyl. Plus: Essays on Nicholas Ray, Eric Rohmer and Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou, Ida Lupino, Marguerite Duras, Stanley Kubrick, Tim Holt, a book on Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, remembering the actual Big Lebowski, David Huddleston, interviews with Pedro Almodóvar, Kent Jones, Clint Eastwood, Steven Soderbergh, a trailer for the new restoration of Ken Loach's Kes—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 8/7/2016
- Fandor: Keyframe
After you’re done watching the teaser for Dunkirk a few times, it’s time to brush up on a classic in the genre. Stanley Kubrick‘s 1957 anti-war film Paths of Glory has been treated with a new trailer ahead of a Blu-ray treatment in the U.K. by Masters of Cinema. The trailer for this new restoration features crisp touch-ups on the wonderful framing and 35mm grain of Kubrick’s early masterwork, along with a slew of reviews — including it being hailed as Kubrick’s “best film.”
In addition, Masters of Cinema have also restored Ken Loach‘s iconic British drama Kes, which will arrive on Blu-ray as well this fall. Recently named as one of Bourne director Paul Greengrass‘ top ten films, Kes tells the story of a 15-year-old working class boy, and also holds a place as one of the top 10 films by the British Film Institute.
In addition, Masters of Cinema have also restored Ken Loach‘s iconic British drama Kes, which will arrive on Blu-ray as well this fall. Recently named as one of Bourne director Paul Greengrass‘ top ten films, Kes tells the story of a 15-year-old working class boy, and also holds a place as one of the top 10 films by the British Film Institute.
- 8/5/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Paul Greengrass has spent the past twenty-plus years crafting lean, energetic action films such as his Bourne entries — a franchise he returns to this Friday with Jason Bourne — and equally taut docudramas such as Captain Philips and United 93. His staging and editing of action has become a seminal staple of modern cinema, though it has proven hard to properly imitate as the coherence he often achieves is lost on his imitators. His films explore national paranoia and wounded heroes (often Matt Damon), while his style focuses on kinetic, intimate, and spur-of-the-moment action and storytelling.
Thanks to BFI‘s most recent Sight & Sound poll, Greengrass has compiled a list of his ten favorite films, many of which globe trot outside of the U.S. to everywhere from France (Godard), to Japan (Kurosawa), and Russia (Eisenstein), among others. There’s a clear connective thread between the French New Wave style of...
Thanks to BFI‘s most recent Sight & Sound poll, Greengrass has compiled a list of his ten favorite films, many of which globe trot outside of the U.S. to everywhere from France (Godard), to Japan (Kurosawa), and Russia (Eisenstein), among others. There’s a clear connective thread between the French New Wave style of...
- 7/26/2016
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
It feels wrong to say that the man responsible for something as achingly tender as the high-concept romantic masterpiece Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is only getting personal with his work now. And yet, French director Michel Gondry's new comic adventure Microbe and Gasoline may just might be the wizard of whimsy's most intimate picture to date. Drawing on his own experiences as a Gallic grade-school hooligan tinkering with homemade contraptions, he's filtered his memories of childhood into a buddy comedy that bridges the gap between how it happened,...
- 7/8/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Ken Loach’s latest film “I, Daniel Blake” follows Daniel Blake (Dave John), a 59-year-old carpenter in North England who suffers a crippling heart attack. He applies for government benefits but immediately encounters a host of red tape that threaten his livelihood, such as when his benefits are denied because the state wants him to return to work against his doctor’s wishes. As Daniel struggles to win the right to appeal, he meets a single mother (Hayley Squires) with two kids in the welfare office who are being squeezed out of an increasingly-gentrified London; Blake helps them set up their new flat and soon they become close friends. Loach’s film tackles the social and medical bureaucracy facing millions of people across the globe who wish to just find some compassion out of a cruel, unfeeling world. Watch a trailer for the film above.
Read More: Cannes Review: Why ‘I, Daniel Blake’ is Ken Loach’s Best Movie in Years
Ken Loach has been directing films for over fifty years. Some of his most acclaimed films include “Kes,” about a young boy and his relationship with a kestrel, and “Riff-Raff,” about a man (Robert Carlyle) recently released from prison who struggles to find employment. He has won the Palme D’Or on two occasions: In 2006 with “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” and just this year with “I, Daniel Blake.”
“I, Daniel Blake” will premiere in the UK on October 21st. A U.S. release date has not yet been set.
Read More: First Look: Ken Loach’s New Film ‘I, Daniel Blake’
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Read More: Cannes Review: Why ‘I, Daniel Blake’ is Ken Loach’s Best Movie in Years
Ken Loach has been directing films for over fifty years. Some of his most acclaimed films include “Kes,” about a young boy and his relationship with a kestrel, and “Riff-Raff,” about a man (Robert Carlyle) recently released from prison who struggles to find employment. He has won the Palme D’Or on two occasions: In 2006 with “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” and just this year with “I, Daniel Blake.”
“I, Daniel Blake” will premiere in the UK on October 21st. A U.S. release date has not yet been set.
Read More: First Look: Ken Loach’s New Film ‘I, Daniel Blake’
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- 6/15/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Ken Loach is one of the world’s most renown naturalist filmmakers alive today. His films tend to focus on social issues facing ordinary individuals, including homelessness, income inequality, labor rights, and more. He has racked up serious critical acclaim and he’s one of nine filmmakers to win the Palme d’Or twice at the Cannes Film Festival for “That Shakes the Barley” in 2006 and “I, Daniel Blake” in 2016. This year, Loach will celebrate his 80th birthday, and there’s no better time to celebrate and honor his work than with a career-spanning documentary. “Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach” presents a candid, behind-the-scenes account of Loach’s body of work, tracking his career from the time he was an understudy in a Kenneth Williams revue to making groundbreaking TV dramas to directing major films such as “Kes” and “Riff-Raff.” Check out the trailer for the film above.
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“Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach” is directed by Louise Osmond, a British documentary filmmaker best known for films like “Deep Water,” about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race, and “Dark Horse,” about a group of friends who breed a racehorse to take down the “elite sport of kings.” Her film was in the works long before Loach won his second Palme d’Or at Cannes this year.
“Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach” was released in the UK on June 3rd and is currently seeking U.S. distribution.
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“Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach” is directed by Louise Osmond, a British documentary filmmaker best known for films like “Deep Water,” about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race, and “Dark Horse,” about a group of friends who breed a racehorse to take down the “elite sport of kings.” Her film was in the works long before Loach won his second Palme d’Or at Cannes this year.
“Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach” was released in the UK on June 3rd and is currently seeking U.S. distribution.
Read More: Cannes: Why Ken Loach Doesn’t Want Cinema to Influence Society
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- 6/14/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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