I, Daniel Blake sweeps Evening Standard film awards | Film | The Guardian
Ken Loach’s drama wins best British film, best actress and most powerful scene, while Hugh Grant and Kate Beckinsale take acting honours Source: I, Daniel Blake sweeps Evening Standard film … Continue reading
Dave Johns lands his first acting award : News 2016 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Comedian Dave Johns has won his first major acting award. The veteran stand-up scooped best actor at the British Independent Film Awards for his role in the Ken Loach film … Continue reading
‘I, Daniel Blake’ – A review, an observation on the audience reaction and a ‘thank you’ to Ken Loach. | Christopher John Ball
I’ve always loved cinemas. I’m drawn to them. They are places of comfort. It stems from an early age. I much prefer the old picture palaces over the current industrial prefabs, but any … Source: … Continue reading
Dave Johns, star of I, Daniel Blake: ‘This film can make things change’ | Film | The Guardian
After 30 years as a standup, the comedian landed the lead in Ken Loach’s excoriating new film. Now he’s being talked of as an Oscar-winner, but it’s the movie’s potential … Continue reading
I, Daniel Blake review – Ken Loach’s quiet rage against injustice | Film | The Guardian
This powerful parable about the failings of the benefits system avoids irony and cynicism and treats its troubled characters with humour and humanity Source: I, Daniel Blake review – Ken … Continue reading
Review: ‘Poor Cow’ | Writing Suzanne
British director Ken Loach is probably best known for his second feature film, Kes (1969). Loach also directed the famous TV drama, Cathy Come Home (1966) staring Carol White. Less … Continue reading
Loach film on shame of poverty in Britain moves Cannes to tears
Director Ken Loach denounced the British government’s “conscious cruelty” towards the poor Friday after his film about the poverty and humiliation inflicted upon them by welfare cuts had critics at … Continue reading
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Did You Know…? REFUSING HONOURS • 2004
‘I’m putting the phone down now, goodbye,’ said Alan Bennett when, following the leaked document that revealed last month that many notable people in various fields had turned down honours … Continue reading
Britain is no country for old men and says “Farewell” to a son of Yorkshire and authentic voice of its people called Barry Hines
Barry [Hines] who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2009, has died at the age of 76 and his passing gives cause to celebrate the life and work of an … Continue reading
Look Back in Languor • Lynne Harvey • 14 June 2006
Whilst preparing something disgusting in the kitchen last week, I was taken out of the TV fugue of knifings, bombings and DIY SOS, by film dialogue so good it made … Continue reading
‘Conscious cruelty’: Ken Loach’s shock at benefit sanctions and food banks
Ken Loach has said there needs to be more public outrage around benefit sanctions and the reliance on food banks, with the situation much worse for working people than when … Continue reading
Wings of Hope
Originally posted on Talking Pictures:
Ken Loach Billy Casper (David Bradley), dirty-faced and shabbily dressed, already futureless at 15, lives on a housing estate in Barnsley, a coal mining town…
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