Tag: Ken
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Alternative Folk Singer/Songwriter Jesse Ahern Shares Music Video For “The Older I Get (Ft. Ken Casey Of Dropkick Murphys & Jaime Wyatt)” @ Top40-Charts.com – Armessa Music News
[ad_1] New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Boston-bred singer-songwriter and guitarist JESSE AHERN’s new album, ROOTS ROCK REBEL, was released Friday, September 15, and marks his debut release via Dropkick Murphys’ Dummy Luck Music / [PIAS] record label. Produced by Grammy Award-winner Ted Hutt (Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, The Gaslight Anthem), ROOTS ROCK REBEL is an…
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Ken Loach and Paul Laverty on The Old Oak – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] This article appeared in the June 15, 2023 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. The Old Oak (Ken Loach, 2023) When I met them on the terrace of the Palais des Festivals at Cannes, director Ken Loach and his writing partner Paul…
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British Director Ken Loach on the Seed-Bed for Far Right Politics in Rust-Belt Communities – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] In “The Old Oak,” which played in Competition in Cannes, Ken Loach portrays a village in the North-East of England where the indigenous white community comes into conflict with Syrian refugees – a conflict fuelled by the despair, deprivation and decline of the rust-belt region. Such conditions can be a seed-bed for far right…
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Ken Loach Cannes Drama Is a Stiff Morality Play – IndieWire – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Three-dimensional characterization is a casualty of Ken Loach’s ongoing social justice project. Yet the 86-year-old idealogue’s tireless stocktaking of the human toll exacted by a Conservative British government – in power since 2010 – has been of political consequence. His 2016 Palme d’Or winner “I, Daniel Blake”, about the crushing UK benefits system, had…
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Ken Loach Is One of the Most Successful Directors in Cannes History – The Hollywood Reporter- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The 1970 edition of the Cannes Film Festival was noted for giving rise to several bold new voices. Robert Altman arrived as an established (and notoriously troublesome) TV director but left a Palme d’Or winner with M*A*S*H, his launchpad to becoming one of the most pivotal figures of contemporary cinema. In the Directors’ Fortnight…
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Ken Jeong Shares Guillermo Del Toro’s Surprise Influence on Charlie Day’s Directorial Debut ‘Fool’s Paradise’- Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Screengrab via youtube/Fool’s Paradise Fool’s Paradise, an upcoming emotional buddy comedy, doesn’t seem much like legendary horror and fantasy director Guillermo del Toro’s bag. The movie follows a recently released mental patient — played by Charlie Day — who has lost his ability to speak. The helpless Day is quickly discovered by a publicist…