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BLACK JACK (LOACH)
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Ken Loach adapted Leon Garfield's novel into this anachronistic period film set in the 18th century. Winner of a FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes. In English with Castilian subtitles.
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BREAD & ROSES
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Ken Loach brings the same political commitment and emotional empathy that marked his earlier work to this, his first film set in the U.S. Adrien Brody stars in the story of L.A. janitors and their attempt to unionize. "...in a period of stylistic ostentation, Loach's modest transparency of means is salutary...Loach denies us a touristic spectacle the characters themselves have scant leisure to enjoy" (Peter Matthews, Sight & Sound). It's notable that, despite the film's American setting, all the production Ken Loach---Great Britain/Spain/France/Italy/Germany---2000---106 mins.
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CARLA'S SONG
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A piercing, emotional film from director Ken Loach, marked by his continued commitment to dramatic realism and political consciousness. Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Trainspotting) plays a Scottish bus driver who meets and falls in love with a troubled Nicaraguan refugee. He returns with her to her native country to find out what happened to her former lover, who was beaten and tortured by the Contras. Scott Glenn co-stars as a former CIA operative who reveals the dark truth about the U.S. backing of the rebels Ken Loach---Great Britain---1996---127 mins.
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DAZZLING DIRECTORS: AN EXCLUSIVE FACETS 2-PACK
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This double release boasts the talents of Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, Ermanno Olmi, Lars von Trier, and Carl Theodor Dryer.
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FATHERLAND
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In Ken Loach's drama, an East German musician leaves his home for England to search for his missing father, who has a shocking secret. Ken Loach---Great Britain---1986---105 mins.
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FOND KISS
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Once again Ken Loach demonstrates his supreme skill with characterization and balancing the personal with the political in this tender romantic drama about a second generation Pakistani DJ (Atta Yaqub) who falls in love with an attractive Irish schoolteacher (Eva Birthistle) in Glasgow. Loach dramatizes the tensions that arise when the couples' respective families and co-workers find out about their mixed-race relationship. "Although Loach takes pains to present all sides of the issues he raises, he courageously faces up to the truth about people's lives, which is his abiding strength" (Kevin Thomas, Ken Loach---Great Britain---2004---114 mins.
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HIDDEN AGENDA
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A compelling and controversial political drama from Ken Loach. Based loosely on the notorious Stalker case of 1982, involving a British officer who discovered a massive government cover-up, Hidden Agenda begins when Kerrigan, the Stalker-like protagonist, travels to Belfast to investigate the killing of an American lawyer who is also an IRA sympathizer. He discovers the murder was committed by the Royal Ulster Constabulary and exposes the cover-up. With Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif and Brian Cox. Ken Loach---Great Britain---1990---108 mins.
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KEN LOACH COLLECTION V1
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A collection of eight career-spanning films from influential British filmmaker Ken Loach: Poor Cow (1967, 101 mins.), Kes (1969, 106 mins.), The Gamekeeper (1980, 84 mins.), Riff Raff (1993, 96 mins.), Raining Stones (1993, 90 mins.), Ladybird Ladybird (1994, 102 mins.), Bread and Roses (2000, 106 mins.), and The Navigators Ken Loach---Great Britain---1967-2001---768 mins.
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KEN LOACH COLLECTION V2
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A collection of eight career-spanning films from influential British filmmaker Ken Loach: Cathy Come Home (1966, 77 mins.), Hidden Agenda (1990, 108 mins.), Land and Freedom (1996, 109 mins.), Carla's Song (1996, 127 mins.), My Name Is Joe (1998, 105 mins.), Sweet Sixteen (2003, 106 mins.), A Fond Kiss (2004, 114 mins.), and The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006, 127 mins.). Ken Loach---Great Britain---1966-2006---691 mins.
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KES (CRITERION)
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A landmark of modern British cinema, Ken Loach's 1969 film stars David Bradley as Billy, a working class youth whose life is beset by teasing and drudgery until the day he discovers an injured kestrel hawk. Nursing the bird back to health, Billy glimpses of a freer, more natural state than the drab, industrial trappings of his current existence.
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LADYBIRD LADYBIRD
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A simply wonderful film from the talented Ken Loach. A small-time singer finds her tough, mostly uneventful life ripped apart by tragedy. A fire destroys her home and severely hurts one of her kids. This incident and a series of problems lead her to lose her children as an unfit mother. Loach's riveting drama is a powerful look at the machinery of the welfare state. Ken Loach---Great Britain---1994---102 mins.
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LAND AND FREEDOM (LOACH)
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Ken Loach's moving love story set against the complex political background of the early days of the Spanish Civil War is brilliant, engaged cinema. A young lad from Liverpool, smitten by the idealism of the Republican cause, fights for land and freedom along with his multi-national comrades and a beautiful, fiery woman (Rosana Pastor) with whom he eventually falls in love. An epic film of war, hope and dissillusionment--uncompromising and powerful. Ken Loach---Great Britain---1996---109 mins.
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LOOKING FOR ERIC
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As in Eric Cantona, the former Manchester United soccer star. In this quasi-fantasy, but still down-to-earth dramedy from Ken Loach, a poor Manchester postal worker (Steve Evets) has a car crash, two lazy grown sons, and a wife that won't speak to him. When he gets high one evening to ease the sting of it all, he's visited by his idol, Eric Cantona.
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LOOKS & SMILES
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Ken Loach's third adaptation of a Barry Hines novel finds the director working yet again in the social realist vein as he tackles rampant unemployment and lost hopes in Thatcher-era England. Mick, a working-class youth played by Graham Green, struggles to find a job as a mechanic. Like so many of his companions in their industrial town, he idly watches his dream shatter. His romantic relationship with Karen (Carolyn Nicholson) is stifled in kind. The film's unwaveringly sober tone and Chris Menges' austere black-and-white photography heighten the protagonist's alienation. A Golden Palm Nominee and Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Ken Loach---Great Britain---1981---103 mins.
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NAVIGATORS
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Ken Loach (Bread and Roses) turns his socially and politically conscious eye on the affects of the British Rail's privatization. As the railway changes hands and workers are laid off, the residents of the railway-dependant town of South Yorkshire slowly see their community's sense of well-being irrevocably change. "Loach has given us another thought-provoking film and a good portrayal of the dark side of corporate takeover" (Jean Lowerison, San Diego Metropolitan). Ken Loach---Great Britain---2001---92 mins.
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POOR COW (KEN LOACH)
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Ken Loach's first theatrical feature was this uncompromisingly bleak portrait of a woman's painful life with a second-rate thief. When her husband is thrown in jail, she takes up with one of his criminal pals (Terence Stamp), who shows her genuine affection. But when her new love also ends up behind bars, she must struggle to make a living for herself and her child. Carol White plays the lead role. Poor Cow gained renewed attention when Steven Soderbergh used clips from it in The Limey to portray the early life of Terence Ken Loach---Great Britain---1967---101 mins.
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RAINING STONES
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Ken Loach's social comedy is set in the British town of Middleton where Bob Williams, survivor, first has his van stolen and then learns the outfit for his daughter Coleen's first communion is going to cost 100 pounds. Among Loach's most accessible films, Raining Stones is a bitingly funny picture that shows the downside to contemporary Britain even as it cleverly reveals the simple humor and tenacity that inspires the average bloke. A Jury Ken Loach---Great Britain---1993---90 mins.
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SWEET SIXTEEN
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Ken Loach (My Name is Joe) returns to his native Scotland with this gritty, coming-of-age drama about a teenager (Martin Compston) struggling to survive while waiting for his mother to be released from prison. Casting non-actors in the lead roles, Loach brings a rough, yet compassionate realism to the film that reflects the political and social climate of his homeland. "Confident, uncompromising and blisteringly realistic" (Kenneth Turan, Los Ken Loach---Great Britain---2003---106 mins.
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WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY
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Director Ken Loach and scriptwriter Paul Laverty have been working together for more than a decade, and it shows in this simultaneously politicized and humanistic account of the anti-British uprising in 1920 Ireland. The brilliant cast is led by Cillian Murphy, who takes up arms with his freedom-fighting brother (Padraic Delaney) after witnessing British atrocities firsthand. This brutality, however, swings both ways. "The history presented in The Wind That Shakes the Barley hardly feels like a closed book or a museum display. It is as alive and as troubling as anything on the evening news, though far more thoughtful and beautiful" (A.O. Scott, New York Times). Winner of the Golden Palm at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. With Orla Fitzgerald and Liam Cunningham. Cinematography by Barry Ackroyd. Ken Loach---Ireland/Great Britain/Germany/Italy/Spain---2006---127 mins.
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