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Ken Loach
Kenneth Loach -known as 'Ken Loach', is an English film and television director, born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire (17th June,1936).
In his early age he attended King Edward VI Grammar School, two years in the RAF read law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, there, he started in the well established comedy group, the Oxford Revue, as an actor in repertory theatre.
In the 1960s changed into television direction and was praised in this role on the first episodes of Z-cars in 1962.
His sense naturalistic and his socialist beliefs make evident in his style and all his work.
So in 1966 perfomed a docu-drama ' Cathy Come Home' standing out the working class people affected by homelessness and unemployment.
In the 1970s and 80s Loach's films suffered of censorship.
During the government Thatcher Loach was reclaimed by channel 4 to performe a series of documentaries.
In the 1990s Loach was awarded at the Cannes Film Festival on three occasions.
In 2006 won de Palma d'or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film ' Kes-The-Barley.html">The Wind That Sha Kes The Barley' about the Irish war of Independence during 1920s.
Loach has been a member of the Labour party from 1960s, he left in the mid-1990s, in November 2004 he was elected to the national council of the Respect Coalition and has also held for election to the European Parliament.
At the present time he is a supporter of the Socialist Resistence organisation.
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Ken Loach's The Angels' Share leads Scottish BAFTA nods -
24 October 2012
-Ken Loach's new film The Angels' Share is tipped to be the toast of the Scottish BAFTA Awards after picking up four nominations.-Loach's highly-acclaimed movie is up for Best Feature Film alongside Citadel and Up There at the annual ceremony, which celebrates the
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Ken Loach to receive lifetime achievement award in Turin -
26 June 2012
-Ken Loach will be feted for his career success at the Turin Film Festival in Italy later this year (12).-The filmmaker will be presented with the 2012 Grand Premio Torino lifetime achievement award, while his comedy The Angel's Share - which won Loach the Jury Pri
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Anderson, Loach and Cronenberg films compete for Palme d'Or -
19 April 2012
-Films by directors Wes Anderson, Ken Loach and David Cronenberg are going head-to-head as they compete for the top award at the Cannes Film Festival.-Anderson's Moonlight Kingdom will open the annual French event on 16 May (12) and it will be among the 22 nominees
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Ken Loach - filmography
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The Spirit of '45
on DVD
(2013)
Starring: Tony Benn
Director: Ken Loach
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1945 was a pivotal year in British history. The unity that carried Britain through the war allied to the bitter memories of the inter-war years led to a vision of a better society. The spirit of the age was to be our brother's and our sister's keeper. Director Ken Loach has used film from Britain's ..read more »
 
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The Angels' Share
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Roger Allam, Daniel Portman, John Henshaw
Director: Ken Loach
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Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives.
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The Angels' Share - Blu-Ray - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: Daniel Portman, William Ruane, John Henshaw
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach directs this Glasgow-set drama about a young juvenile delinquent who is given one last chance to stay out of jail and carve out a future for himself. Small-time criminal and new father Robbie (Paul Brannigan) narrowly escapes a prison sentence after his most recent foray into the world of ..read more »
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Ken Loach at the BBC
(6 discs)
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Anna Cropper, Norman Rossington, Paul Copley
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach is one of Britains most respected film directors with a career spanning over 40 years. From his pioneering days with the BBC, scripting and directing Cathy Come Home in 1966, to the Palme DOr winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ken Loach has stayed to his film making style and ..read more »
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Route Irish - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Mark Womack, Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach directs this hard-edged political thriller set in Liverpool. Along with his best friend and colleague Frankie (John Bishop), Liverpudlian ex-soldier Fergus (Mark Womack) returned to Iraq after the war to work as a private security contractor. Back in Liverpool, he hears that Frankie has ..read more »
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Route Irish
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Najwa Nimri, Stephen Lord, John Bishop
Director: Ken Loach
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The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friend's death and sets out to discover the truth.
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Looking for Eric
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Mick Ferry, Gerard Kearns, Stephanie Bishop
Director: Ken Loach
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Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers. His wife has gone, his stepsons are out of control and the house was chaotic even before a cement mixer appeared in the front garden. Life is crazy enough, but it is Eric's own secret that is driving him to the brink. How can he face up to Lily, ..read more »
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Looking for Eric - Blu-ray
(2009)
Starring: Mick Ferry, Gerard Kearns, Stephanie Bishop
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach directs this upbeat comedy set in Manchester, about a football-mad postman who receives life coaching from his idol, the enigmatic French footballing legend, Eric Cantona. On a downward spiral and facing an uncertain future, postman Eric Bishop (Steve Evets) is looking for a way out of ..read more »
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Great Directors
(2009)
Starring: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani
Director: Angela Ismailos
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GREAT DIRECTORS, directed by Angela Ismailos, features original, in-depth conversations with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles.
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It's A Free World
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Frank Gilhooley, Leslaw Zurek, Kierston Wareing
Director: Ken Loach
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Drama directed by Ken Loach. After Angie (Kierston Wareing) gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public, she decides to team up with her flatmate Rose (Juliet Ellis) and run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate to work the opportunities are ..read more »
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Tickets
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Blerta Cahani, Sanije Dedja, Martin Compston
Director: Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach
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Three different stories intertwine aboard a train travelling from Eastern Europe to Rome. An older businessman finds a new solace in life when he's delayed at the station; a young man is reminded of his obligations in life; and three Scottish lads on their way to a football match have their eyes ..read more »
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Ae Fond Kiss...
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ahmad Riaz, Eva Birthistle, Shamshad Akhtar
Director: Ken Loach
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Drama starring Atta Yaqub as Casim, a second generation Pakistani from Glasgow. Working as a DJ in Glasgow's coolest venues, Casim dreams of buying his own club. His parents Tariq and Sadia are devout Muslims and plan for him to marry his beautiful cousin Jasmine, who is soon to arrive in the UK. ..read more »
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Sweet Sixteen
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: William Ruane, Michelle Abercromby, Annmarie Fulton
Director: Ken Loach
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Paul Laverty writes his fourth script with director Ken Loach for the gritty coming-of-age drama Sweet Sixteen. Set in the port city of Greenock, Scotland, local kid Liam (Martin Compston) spends his days trying to make money with his best friend, Pinball (William Ruane). When he refuses to use his ..read more »
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The Navigators
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Steve Huison, Joe Duttine, Tom Craig
Director: Ken Loach
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In South Yorkshire, a small group of railway maintenance men discover that because of privatization, their lives will never be the same. When the trusty British Rail sign is replaced by one reading "East Midland Infrastructure," it is clear that there will be the inevitable winners and losers as ..read more »
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Bread And Roses
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jack McGee, Lillian Hurst, Elpidia Carrillo
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach directs this story about the struggle of Los Angeles office cleaners against unfair working practices. Newly arrived in the US, Mexican immigrant Maya (Pilar Padilla) begins work for an office cleaning company. One night, while carrying out her duties, she helps union organiser Sam (..read more »
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My Name Is Joe
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Gary Lewis, Louise Goodall, Anne Marie Kennedy
Director: Ken Loach
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Another hard-hitting drama from Ken Loach. Recovering alcoholic Joe Kavanagh (Peter Mullan) is out of work, but spends his time coaching the local football team. When he goes to pick up team member Liam (David McKay), he meets social worker Sarah Downie (Louise Goodall). Although they clash at ..read more »
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Carla's Song
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Scott Glenn, Oyanka Cabezas, Robert Carlyle
Director: Ken Loach
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A director's cut of Ken Loach's drama. George (Robert Carlyle) is a bus driver in Glasgow who befriends fare dodger Carla (Oyanka Cabezas). After he finds her somewhere to live, she tells him that she is a refugee from war-torn Nicaragua. As he gradually falls in love with Carla, he arranges to ..read more »
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Land And Freedom
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Icíar Bollaín, Rosana Pastor, Ian Hart
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach's moving story of the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. The fascist General Franco is trying to take control of the country from the recently elected democratic government and the republican loyalists form whatever army they can to stop the uprising. In Liverpool, David, an unemployed man, ..read more »
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Ladybird, Ladybird
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Vladimir Vega, Ray Winstone, Crissy Rock
Director: Ken Loach
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A single mother struggles against the British social service system and her own troubled past in director Ken Loach's brutally realistic drama. Coming from a background of abuse and poverty, the hardened Maggie (Crissy Rock) has already suffered through a series of painful romances when she falls ..read more »
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Raining Stones
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Bruce Jones, Gemma Phoenix, Julie Brown
Director: Ken Loach
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Bob (Bruce Jones) lives with his wife Anne (Julie Brown) and his daughter Coleen (Gemma Phoenix) in a poor English town. Bob scrapes by with whatever odd jobs come his way -- working as a bouncer, stealing green turf, cleaning septic tanks. Although Bob has no money and is living on the dole, he is ..read more »
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Riff Raff
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Emer McCourt, Ricky Tomlinson, Robert Carlyle
Director: Ken Loach
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Former jailbird Stevie (Robert Carlyle) travels to London, finds work on a building site, and sets up home in an abandoned flat. One day he discovers a handbag in a skip and returns it to its owner, the would-be singer Susan (Emer McCourt). The pair begin a romance, but Susan's drug use soon puts a ..read more »
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Hidden Agenda
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Frances McDormand
Director: Ken Loach
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Frances McDormand and Brian Cox star in this thriller from director Ken Loach. After American lawyer Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) is shot dead at a police roadblock, supposedly for not stopping, his girlfriend Ingrid (McDormand) comes to believe that he was murdered because he discovered sensitive ..read more »
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Fatherland
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Fabienne Babe, Gerulf Pannach, Cristine Rose
Director: Ken Loach
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Dark secrets are revealed and sinister alliances uncovered in acclaimed director Ken Loachs complex tale of betrayal and life on either side of the Berlin Wall.
East Berlin-based protest singer Klaus Ditteman is forced to abandon his wife and child and relocate to West Berlin where ..read more »
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Looks and Smiles
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Graham Green, Carolyn Nicholson, Tony Pitts
Director: Ken Loach
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Loach was awarded the 1981 Young Cinema Award at Cannes for this naturalistic study of one young mans struggle to find his way in the world set against a backdrop of Thatcherism and the Irish troubles.
Based on Barry Hines acclaimed novel, and made at a time when British unemployment was already ..read more »
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The Gamekeeper
(1980)
Starring: Phil Askham, Rita May, Andrew Grubb
Director: Ken Loach
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George, a former Sheffield foundry worker, becomes Gamekeeper on a country estate in South Yorkshire. He delights in his job, enjoying the countryside and protecting the pheasants from all their predators, both foxes and poachers. However, this is no bucolic idyll. His son is bullied, his wife ..read more »
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Black Jack
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Stephen Hirst, Doreen Mantle, Brian Hawksley
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach directs this adventure film based on the children's novel by Leon Garfield. Set in mid-18th century Yorkshire, the film tells the tale of Black Jack (Jean Franval), a huge but gentle Frenchman who miraculously survives a hanging at the gallows in York and escapes into the countryside with ..read more »
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Family Life
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave
Director: Ken Loach
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The dramatic story of a young girl and her family, shattered by personal conflict. She suffers schizophrenia after a traumatic abortion. Her parents commit her to an asylum, believing they know what's best for her...
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Kes
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Colin Welland, David Bradley, Brian Glover
Director: Ken Loach
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Acclaimed drama from director Ken Loach following a young boy from a working-class Northern town who begins training a falcon to find relief from his problems. Billy (David Bradley) appears to have little hope in his life. He is bullied by his brother, Jud (Freddie Fletcher), and neglected by his ..read more »
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Poor Cow
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: John Bindon, Terence Stamp, Kate Williams
Director: Ken Loach
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Kitchen sink drama directed by Ken Loach. Young mother Joy (Carol White) is forced to fend for herself when her brutal and uncaring husband, Tom (John Bindon), is put in jail. Joy finds brief happiness with Tom's criminal associate Dave (Terence Stamp), who proves kind and gentle when she moves in ..read more »
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Cathy Come Home
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Wally Patch, Carol White, Ray Brooks
Director: Ken Loach
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Ken Loach's television play, made for the BBC's Wednesday Play series, is probably the most famous British television play ever, watched by a quarter of the population both on its first broadcast in November 1966 and on its repeat in January 1967. Carol White stars as the bright young bride Cathy, ..read more »
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Ken Loach facts
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...Ken Loach films are not for everyone. Perhaps they are not for anyone at the end of a stressful day. There is no escapism or eye candy. The sharp end of working class ex...
