Tag: Loach
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Valladolid Prizes Laura Ferrés, Ken Loach, Alice Rohrwacher New Talent – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Two movies which come in on immigration from vastly different angles – Laura Ferrés’ “The Permanent Picture” and Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak” – won big Saturday night at Spain’s Valladolid Festival, walking off with its main competition Golden Spike and the Spanish event’s best actor (Dave Turner) and Audience Award plaudits respectively. The…
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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 Loach Interview: ‘The Spirit of ’45’ and More – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] The 86-year-old legend explains to IndieWire the crisis facing filmmakers (and British society as a whole) while readying a new movie and releasing his documentary on the Labour Party. It’s safe to say that no filmmaker has put more time into the struggles of the working class than Ken Loach. The 86-year-old British director…
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“We’re not making a Ken Loach film,” say ‘Scrapper’ filmmakers as they prepare for Sundance launch | Features – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] A tower built with scraps of metal from old bikes at Wimbledon Film Studies in south-west London is the centrepiece of the set of Scrapper, the feature debut of UK filmmaker Charlotte Regan. But all eyes and focus are on street-cast child actress Lola Campbell. The newcomer, who won the director over with her audition…