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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.
Critical reception towards the film was generally positive, with many critics lauding both Paul Laverty's script and the strong, naturalistic performances of the non-professional actors involved, however, even those critics supportive of the film tended to see it as one of Loach's lesser films.
In an interview with the BBC in 2001, Loach stated that thousands of cleaners from around 30 countries have since contacted him with tales similar to the one told in the film.
Loach was born and raised in Denver and became a conducting student of Antonia Brico when he was 14 years old.
European crayfish was observed in 1989 and Signal crayfish, illegally introduced during the 1990s, is feared to threaten the population of Stone Loach and to bring crayfish plague into the stream.
Ae Fond Kiss... or Just a Kiss, a 2004 romantic drama film directed by Ken Loach
The kuhli loach was originally described as Cobitis kuhlii by Achille Valenciennes in 1846 to commemorate Heinrich Kuhl's work as a naturalist and zoologist.
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.
The current water quality allows for a stable fish fauna, with five species populating the river, namely salmon (extinct in 1940 and restored thanks to the re-population programs of 1980s), trout, ezkailu (Phoxinus phoxinus), loach and eel.
Carr (1990:106) cites Chen Mengjia's hypothesis, based on studies of Shang Dynasty oracle bones, that Yinglong was originally associated with the niqiu 泥鰍 "loach".