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	Ken Loach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is a English television and film director, known for his social realist style and socialist themes.
		Loach lives with his family in Bath, England where he is a supporter and shareholder in Bath City F.C. He is also on the National Council of the left wing Respect Coalition.
		Ken Loach is a strong opponent of censorship within films and he was outraged at the certificate given to Sweet Sixteen (it was given an 18).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ken_Loach (980 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Stand-Up Filmmaker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loach is feeling it, too, although he's hardly eating: some fruit juice and a bit of smoked salmon.
		Loach nods politely to get rid of her and returns to the subject of a 1990 march along Century City's main drag, Avenue of the Stars, when mainly immigrant janitors seeking to unionize clashed with police.
		The film, says Loach, "is a way of saying something about what's happening in the United States from the point of view of the people who do the work." He pauses to cross his legs and you notice a hole in his loafer.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A29850-2001Jul6?language=printer (1387 words)

	Ken Loach - Films as Director:, Films for Television:
		Ken Loach is not only Britain's most political filmmaker, he is also its most censored—and the two are not entirely unconnected.
		In particular, Loach was dragged into the much-rehearsed argument that the "documentary-drama" form dishonestly and misleadingly blurs the line between fact and fiction and, in particular, presents the latter as the former.
		Loach's work, especially Days of Hope, was also drawn into a more serious debate which raged at one time in the pages of Screen about whether films with "progressive" political content can be truly "progressive" if they utilise the allegedly outworn and ideologically dubious conventions of realism.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Ku-Lu/Loach-Ken.html (2156 words)

	Ken Loach
		Loach was born in Nuneaton, England on the 17th June 1936.
		Loach's Up The Junction and Cathy Come Home were the first 'Wednesday Plays' to escape the trappings of a studio set-up and, using genuine vox-pop interviews and statistics, was a ground-breaking piece of cin?ma v?rit?-esque documentary fiction, which was to cause great debate over the very nature of television drama.
		Loach returned to these themes in his 1983 four-part Channel 4-commissioned Questions of Leadership16, that extended the themes of the original broadcast but concerned the miner's strike.
	www.mayweek.ab.ca /archives/2003/kenloach.html (1359 words)

	Loach, Ken
		Ken Loach is Britain's most renowned and most controversial director of socially conscious television drama.
		Loach worked for a brief spell as a repertory actor before joining the BBC in 1963 as a trainee television director.
		Loach's earliest directorial contribution was on episodes of the ground-breaking police series Z-Cars, but he first attracted serious attention with Up the Junction, a starkly realistic portrayal of working-class life in South London, which went out in 1965 as one of the earliest productions in the BBC's innovative Wednesday Playslot.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/L/htmlL/loachken/loachken.htm (1178 words)

	The Cinema of Ken Loach
		Ken Loach is a filmmaker who has incorporated his political beliefs into his art and made the two indivisible.
		Loach also started to experiment with the 'documenting the actor' type of filming (actors are filmed even when they have stopped performing).
		Between 1981 and 1986 Loach almost exclusively made documentaries that are all explicit about politics, and it is with these non-fiction works that the author concludes Chapter 5: Loach's documentaries of the 1980s show everyday people presenting themselves with their own voices through the use of interviews, discussions, and explanatory voice-overs.
	www.wallflowerpress.co.uk /publications/directors/ken_loach.html (3067 words)

	Cineaste: The Revolution Betrayed: An Interview with Ken Loach
		Ken Loach, unquestionably one of Britain's most important filmmakers, is best known for his gritty and compassionate portrayals of working-class life.
		Early in his career, a series of socially conscious BBC films established the fact that Loach was both a skillful artist and a crusading social critic.
		Although Loach occasionally returned to television (the even more controversial Days of Hope [1976] was a landmark BBC mini-series), he subsequently moved on to feature films, most notably Kes (1969), Family Life (1971), and Ladybird, Ladybird (1994), that are justly regarded as milestones of British social realism.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/loachinterview2.html (2129 words)

	Ken Loach Biography
		Loach's next film, Ladybird, Ladybird (1994), based on a true story, follows the plight of a single mother to regain custody of her children.
		Glasgow was represented heavily in Loach’s next two films; the romance between a Nicaraguan refugee and a Scottish bus driver was conveyed in Carla’s Song (1996), and the character study of a recovering alcoholic in My Name Is Joe (1998).
		In 2001, Loach returned to television for the Channel4 drama The Navigators, focusing on the knock-on effect of railway privatisation on the workers and public safety.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/k_loach/biog.html (404 words)

	Ken Loach's Land and Freedom: The Spanish revolution betrayed
		The inability of Loach, a director of considerable international stature with three decades of filmmaking behind him, to raise a few million dollars for this project--at a time when the average Hollywood production costs upwards of $30-40 million--speaks volumes about the current state of the film industry.
		Loach is a devoted and talented practitioner of a naturalistic style.
		Loach is advanced by uncritical admirers as a filmmaker who represents the principle of objectivity in cinema.
	wsws.org /arts/1998/aug1998/land-96.shtml (1507 words)

	Locating Loach
		Loach interviewed a teacher who was upset by this manipulation and, needless to say, the film would not have been beneficial to the charity, and they tried to have the film destroyed.
		Loach has also, aside from casting ‘real people', made use of the sagacity of people experiencing lives similar to those in the plot, in the attempt to be factually correct in the representation he gives.
		This is particularly the case as we watch her actions at his funeral, indicating Loach’s approach to the uncovering of history, and the willingness to follow through the traditions of the struggle, and the notion of a solidarity transcending generations.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Exhibit/5693/locatingloach.htm (17667 words)

	Ken Loach hits back at English tabloids - Indymedia Ireland
		Mr Loach said the press coverage had been a “knee-jerk reaction” by those who were incapable of facing Britain’s colonial past and who felt threatened by being confronted with aspects of their own history.
		Mr Loach is to be stigmatised, apparently, because he shows Irish nationalism in a favourable light but the day is long past when a thought-provoking film such as The Wind That Shakes The Barley can simply be rubbished in condescending tones by a Unionist apologist.
		Ken Loach's new contribution to 'Irish' cinema received the highest accolade for a film, the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival last Sunday.
	www.indymedia.ie /article/76396 (4351 words)

	Cineaste: The Politics of Everyday Life: An Interview with Ken Loach<
		Although Ken Loach is loath to pigeonhole himself as a 'social realist,' his work - from the celebrated BBC films of the Sixties to the present - has been consistently imbued with a tangible respect for the contours of daily life.
		Loach: On a personal level, the people were generous and welcoming, as well as open - far more open than I thought they would be or that we had any right to expect them to be.
		Loach: Yes, we had a screening of Land and Freedom when we were in preproduction, before we actually began to shoot.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/LoachInterview.html (6869 words)

	Ken Loach interview - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film
		Even Loach's triumphant punch as he accepted the prize came under the scrutiny of a Guardian columnist who wondered whether it was perhaps a communist salute.
		Boxes are piled high in Loach's office – he's having a clear-out – and their yellowing labels identify correspondence dating back to the 1960s, a testament to a career that now spans 40 years, from 'Cathy Come Home' and 'Kes' in the 1960s to his recent Glasgow trilogy.
		Loach dismisses the accusation that he made the film as a direct comment on the Iraq war, a claim made in the Mail and elsewhere.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/1200.html (1790 words)

	Ken Loach - Biography
		It was also at this point that Loach's career began it's extended 'low', tellingly coinciding with the election of the Conservative Party to government under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, who embodied the very antithesis of Loach's ideology.
		Loach returned to these themes in his 1983 four-part Channel 4-commissioned Questions of Leadership, that extended the themes of the original broadcast but concerned the miner's strike.
		After years of, as Loach himself describes it, of "walking up and down Wardour Street, briefcase in hand, desperately seeking finance", he directed, in 1990, Allen's typically polemical screenplay film Hidden Agenda, which won Loach the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival of that year.
	www.1worldfilms.com /kenloach.htm (1354 words)

	Eamonn Fitzgerald's Rainy Day: Ken Loach doesn't get Lost, but he should
		And Ken is an artist, as his peers confirmed last Sunday when they awarded him the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
		And the beauty of it would be that Ken could assuage his guilt about all the wrongs that Britain has wreaked on its neighbour while continuing to film in Ireland.
		And when you consider that Ken's best-know film, Kes, is about a kestrel, he's clearly the man for the tiger project.
	www.eamonn.com /2006/06/ken_loach_doesnt_get_lost_but_1.htm (512 words)

	The Dreaming Arm: On Wind, Barley and Ken Loach
		Loach is not afraid to deal with sensitive or controversial topics in his work.
		Ken's crime is to have told the other side of the story.
		It seems that Loach has simply presented the facts as they are, but I think the comparison of the British occupation of Ireland to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq is somewhat far-fetched.
	thelonglane.blogspot.com /2006/06/on-wind-barley-and-ken-loach.html (902 words)

	Ken Loach @ Filmbug
		Ken Loach has created a diverse and illustrious career as a chronicler and poet of Britain's working classes.
		Loach made his feature debut with POOR COW the following year, and, in 1969, directed KES, widely considered one of the finest films ever made in Britain.
		Loach made stellar contributions to the cinema of the 1990s, with a series of award-winning films firmly establishing him in the pantheon of great European directors.
	www.filmbug.com /db/35854 (318 words)

	An Interview With Ken Loach
		Ken Loach has spent the greater part of the last 40 years chronicling the struggles, hardships and perseverance of working-class families in Great Britain.
		If the story occasionally appeared to drift across the line separating fact and fiction, it probably was because Loach enlisted real-life custodial workers to play several key roles and set some of the action in the same buildings they struck.
		Loach draws remarkable performances from his three lead actors – Martin Compston, Michelle Coulter, Annmarie Fulton and Tommy McKee – all of whom make their debuts in Sweet Sixteen.
	www.moviecitynews.com /Interviews/loach.html (1143 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Loach film wins top Cannes prize
		Loach, 69, has said the film, which describes the early days of the IRA in the 1920s from an Irish perspective, is also a critique of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
		Loach thanked the jury of "the most wonderful festival of cinema in the world".
		Loach has been nominated for the Palme d'Or on seven previous occasions, but this is the first time he has won the main prize.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/5025812.stm (635 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Loach revisits Irish struggle
		British film-maker Ken Loach won the Palme d'Or at Cannes with his movie The Wind That Shakes The Barley, which recalls the Irish civil war.
		Loach, who is outspoken in his views against the war in Iraq, says the film resonates strongly with current events.
		Loach says the story of the origins of the Irish conflict is one not fully heard in Great Britain.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/4993956.stm (700 words)

	CityBeat: The Everyday Worlds of Ken Loach (2001-06-07)
		The tag is familiar and matter-of-fact: British director Ken Loach is a social realist.
		Loach's hope is that moviegoers will connect with Brody's union organizer and Padilla's immigrant janitor.
		To some extant, the "Ken Loach" film continues to be the trademark of the British film industry.
	www.citybeat.com /2001-06-07/film2.shtml (1024 words)

	Amazon.com: Sweet Sixteen: DVD: Martin Compston,William Ruane,Annmarie Fulton,Michelle Abercromby,Michelle Coulter,Gary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Director Ken Loach is famous for his skills in letting the actors give their very best, pros and non-pros alike, and people like Terrence Stamp, Robert Carlyle, or Peter Mulan have already testified to this fact, giving their superb acting in his films made in the past.
		Ken Loach, who slyly inserts his social messages in his films, is also a good storyteller and artist skilled in presenting the atomosphere of the place, and his Scotland looks very authentic.
		Director Ken Loach delivers a well-paced documentary-like film set in Greenock, Scotland, that is centered around Liam (Martin Compson), a likeable protagonist who, with good intentions to buy a trailor for his soon-to-be-released mess of a mom, goes from selling cigarettes, to selling drugs in the neighborhood, to working for big-time drug dealers.
	www.amazon.com /Sweet-Sixteen-Ken-Loach/dp/B0000C2IQP (2327 words)

	EuroScreenwriters - Interviews with European Film Directors - Ken Loach
		SH: Ken said to me a few days ago, that if it was down to him, he could have easily come down on Sarah's side.
		So Ken sent his CV in and he said, "I'm a filmmaker and my aim is to expose the sham of social democracy as best exemplified by the Blair project." (Audience laughs).
		Ken went through this bad period in the 80s where he used to phone up from public phone boxes and people would go, 'Oh fuck, it's Ken Loach' and put the phone down; and in the 90s you actually changed your approach to film making and went back to more traditional storytelling.
	zakka.dk /euroscreenwriters/interviews/ken_loach_524.htm (6331 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Ken Loach: Kes
		Ken Loach, the most modest of directors, would probably say he had a lot to be modest about - that his team deserves as much praise as he does.
		And it is certainly true that you don't look for visually imaginative work from Loach - though a writer in Sight and Sound who suggested not long ago that Loach couldn't even frame a shot properly was talking through the wrong hole.
		In his best movies, Loach is able to turn the particular into the universal and to appeal to audiences the world over.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,335080,00.html (588 words)

	Ken Loach Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Loach and Garnett worked together closely and pioneered the format of what has been termed "the docudrama", a mix of techniques employed by the evening news and the fictional film, using location shooting and often casting non-professional actors.
		Loach first garnered attention for "Up the Junction" (1965), which profiled three impoverished working-class women, and cemented his reputation with "Cathy Comes Home" (1966), about a couple forced by economic circumstances to live on the streets.
		Loach delivered searing indictments of the fractious democratic republicans in the former and the US government and its covert involvement with the Contras in the latter.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/195585 (1324 words)

	Kes - Ken Loach 1969
		Written and directed by Ken Loach, that most politically committed of British film-makers, Kes is one of his most impassioned works of this gifted director.
		Ken Loach is the master of social commentary and I think this is probably his best film.
		Ken is telling us hope is a jewel to be treasured especially when it is surrounded by those wishing it crushed and buried.
	www.learmedia.ca /product_info.php/cPath/1/products_id/6 (2188 words)

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