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7 unusual facts about Ken Loach


Bobby Knutt

In 1976 he was given the lead role in the BBC's The Price of Coal directed by Ken Loach.

Cleaner

The 2000 film Bread and Roses by British director Ken Loach depicted the struggle of cleaners in Los Angeles, California to fight for better pay and working conditions, and the right to join a union.

Fred Holroyd

Holroyd's allegations helped form the basis for the 1990 Ken Loach film, Hidden Agenda.

Great Directors

In the film, Ismailos interviews directors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Todd Haynes, Richard Linklater, Ken Loach, David Lynch, John Sayles, and Agnes Varda.

Jennifer Juniper

The B-side "Poor Cow" is a song produced for the film Poor Cow by Ken Loach.

POUM

Likewise, the film Land and Freedom, directed by Ken Loach, tells of a group of POUM soldiers fighting in the war from the perspective of a British member of the British Communist Party.

Wilebaldo Solano

He was a major advisor to and collaborator on films such as Ken Loach's Land and Freedom and the documentary Operación Nikolai.


Cathy Come Home

The play was written by Jeremy Sandford, produced by Tony Garnett and directed by Ken Loach, who went on to become a major figure in British film.

Cúil Aodha

In recent times Song for a Raggy Boy and The Wind That Shakes the Barley (directed by Ken Loach) have been filmed in the area surrounding Coolea.

Curt Truninger

In 2008 Truninger and Ritzmann adapted the cult play What Happened Was by New York actor/playwright Tom Noonan, into the feature film The Rendezvous, starring Eva Birthistle (Ae Fond Kiss, Ken Loach) and Tim Dutton.

David Aukin

From 1990-98 he was Head of Film at Channel 4, during which time he commissioned over 100 feature films including Trainspotting, The Madness of King George, Secrets & Lies, Shallow Grave, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Brassed Off, and films by Ken Loach, Peter Greenaway, Tony Harrison and many others.

Kenith Trodd

In 1968, with colleagues Tony Garnett and Ken Loach, he set up Kestrel Productions, a company which was affiliated with London Weekend Television.

Stefan Gumbs

He made his big screen debut in Ken Loach’s ‘Looking For Eric’ and went on to win a Best Actor gong at the Ibiza Film Festival for his role in indie feature Rebels Without A Clue.

The Spirit of '45

The Spirit of '45 is a 2013 documentary film by British director Ken Loach, focused on and celebrating the radical changes in postwar Britain under the Labour government of Clement Attlee, which came to power in 1945.

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

She was present at the 2005 Berlinale, the Berlin International Film Festival, to promote two films she had acted in: Tickets (2005), a three-segment film directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach, and Crustacés et Coquillages, a comedy directed by the French duo of Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau.


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27A

There was a style at that time, sort of pseudo-documentary, with a lot of hand-held camera work - Cullodden, Cathy Come Home and Poor Cow, that English, Ken Loach, Peter Watkins realism.

Just a Kiss

Ae Fond Kiss... or Just a Kiss, a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Ken Loach

Stuart Wolfenden

Stuart recently auditioned again for the great Ken Loach, who was kind enough to send his audition tape to his son Jim Loach which lead to him being cast in the 2011 film Oranges and Sunshine, playing the character Bill.