Ken Loach

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Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English filmmaker.

In his film treatment of social problems such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), and labor rights (Riff-Raff, 1991), he is a socially critical director style and socialist ideals are evident. In a vote by the British Film Institute, Loach's film Kes (1969) was named the seventh best British film of the twentieth century.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I (2016), two of his films, respectively, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him the ninth filmmaker to win the award twice.

Early life

Kenneth Loach was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, on June 17th, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and joined the Royal Air Force at the age of 19. He studied law at St Peter' College, Oxford, and earned a third-class degree. He directed an open-air production of Bartholomew Fair for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford, 1959 (when he also played Dan Jordan Knockem). He began a career in the dramatic arts after Oxford.

Personal life and honours

Lesley, the Loach's wife, lives in Bath with his wife. Jim Loach's son Jim Loach has also worked as a television and film producer. He had a younger son and two daughters, one of whom was Emma Loach (born 1972), a documentary film maker married to actor Elliot Levey, died in a car accident aged five.

"In particular, the indoctrination of children in separate faith schools is perplexing and divisive." "I wholeheartedly support the British Humanist Association."

In 1977, Loach Loach was refused an OBE. He said in a Radio Times interview, which was published in March 2001, he said: 'It's a pleasure to listen.'

The University of Bath, Staffordshire University, and Keele University have all given Loach honorary doctorates. In June 2005, Oxford University granted him an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree. He is also an honorary fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, and also an honorary fellow of his alma mater, St Peter' College, Oxford. He received the BAFTA TV Awards in May 2006, an international award.

Loach received the 2003 Praemium Imperiale honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University. In the category Film/Theatre, "the World Culture Prize in Honor of His Imperial Highness Prince Takamatsu" is named. At the 64th Berlin International Film Festival in 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear. Loach will be recognized with the Raindance Film Festival's inaugural Auteur Award in September 2016 to honor his "ethical contributions to filmmaking and contribution to the film industry." He was also named Honorary Associate of the London Film School.

Loach turned down the Turin Film Festival award in November 2012 after finding that the National Museum of Cinema in Turin had outsourced cleaning and security staff. In addition to raising suspicions of bullying and harassment, the museum outsourced this labor after dismissing employees who opposed a wage reduction. The Loach also stated that refusing to accept the award from the museum was a gesture of solidarity with these workers.

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Career

Loach began as an actor in regional theatre companies and then as a producer for BBC Television. The docudramas Up the Junction (1965), Cathy Come Home (1966), and In Two Minds (1967) are among his ten contributions to the BBC's Wednesday Play anthology collection. They depict working-class people in conflict with the authorities over them. Three of his early plays are said to have been lost. His 1965 play Three Clear Sundays dealt with capital punishment, and it was broadcast in the United Kingdom at a time when the debate was at an end. Up the Junction, a Nell Dunn book with the assistance of Loach, is dealing with an unlawful abortion, but the leading characters in Cathy Come Home, by Jeremy Sandford, are impacted by poverty, unemployment, and the workings of Social Services. David Mercer's book Two Minds, a young schizophrenic woman's experience with the mental health system, concerns about her mental health. In this period, Tony Garnett began to work as his producer, a career link that would continue until the 1970s.

During this period, he produced the absurdist comedy The End of Arthur's Marriage, about which he later said he was "the wrong one for the job." Loach began to direct feature films for cinema with Poor Cow (1967) and Kes (1969), coincident with his role in The Wednesday Play. The latter tells the tale of a struggling boy and his kestrel, and is based on Barry Hines' book A Kestrel for a Knave. The film was well received, but the use of Yorkshire dialect throughout the film restricted its distribution, with some American executives at United Artists saying that they would have found a film in Hungarian that was easier to comprehend. The British Film Institute named it No. 7 in its list of the best British films of the twentieth century, which was released in 1999.

Loach's films in the 1970s and 1980s were less popular, often due to poor distribution, a lack of enthusiasm, and political censorship. The children Fund Film (1971) was funded by the charity, but the charity later regretted it so much that they attempted to have the negative deleted. On September 1, 2011, at the BFI Southbank, it was the first time it had been broadcast publicly for the first time. During the 1980s, Loach concentrated on television documentaries rather than fiction, and many of these films are now impossible to access as the television companies haven't released them on DVD or DVD. He directed some television commercials for Tennent's Lager in the 1980s, earning money.

Days of Hope (1975) is a four-part drama starring Loach from scripts by dramatist Jim Allen. Following the series's critical portrayal of the military in World War I, and particularly in the aftermath of enemy fire after refusing to obey orders, conscientious objectors were tied up to stakes outside trenches. An ex-serviceman who later contacted The Times newspaper with an example from the time of a similar incident.

Members of the Iron and Steel Confederation (the country's largest trade union), as well as Loach's documentary A Question of Leadership (1981), interviewed members of the Iron and Steel Confederation (the country's biggest trade union for the steel industry) during their 14-week strike in 1980, and received a lot of criticism of the union's leadership for denying over the strike's causes. Loach produced a four-part series titled Questions of Leadership that brought together the leaders of other trade unions under similar scrutiny from their followers, but this has never been broadcast. Frank Chapple, the head of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications, and Plumbing Union, walked out of the interview and filed a complaint with the Independent Broadcasting Authority. Terry Duffy of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union lodged a separate complaint. Following the allegations, the series was supposed to be broadcast during the 1983 Trade Union Congress conference, but Channel 4 decided not to air it. In 2004, Anthony Hayward said that media tycoon Robert Maxwell had put pressure on Central Television's board (Central was the successor to the original production firm Associated Television), of which he had remained a director), to withdraw Questions of Leadership (Central), which required union involvement, particularly Chapple.

Which Side Are You On?

Loach was due to direct Allen's play Perdition at the Royal Court Theatre in 1987, when he had been working with Jim Allen. Half a million Jews were killed in the quest for a Zionist nation in Palestine, according to Jewish leaders in Nazi-occupied Hungary. However, the play was postponed 36 hours before its premiere, owing to demonstrations and allegations of antisemitism.

Loach directed Time to go in 1989, which was broadcast on the BBC's Split Screen series.

Loach's Late 1980s animated theatrical feature films, a series of films including Hidden Agenda (1990), dealing with Northern Ireland's political challenges, and Carla's Song (1996), which was partially set in Nicaragua, were among the early 1980s films. He supervised the courtroom reconstructions in McLibel's docu-film McLibel, about McDonald's Restaurants vs. Morris & Steel, England's longest libel trial in English history. Raining Stones (1993) a working-class drama about an unemployed man's attempts to buy a communion dress for his teenage daughter, was interspersed with political films.

Loach received the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival for his film The Wind Shakes the Barley, a political-historical drama about the Irish War of Independence and the subsequent Irish Civil War in the 1920s, which took place in the United States. The Wind That Shakes the Barley was chastised for reportedly being too sympathetic to the Irish Republican Army and Provisional Irish Republican Army, according to Hidden Agenda prior to it. This film was followed by It's a Free World... (2007), a tale of one woman's attempt to create an unlawful placement service for migrant workers in London.

Loach weaved wider political dramas into the 2000s, including Bread and Roses (2000), which focuses on the Los Angeles janitors' eviction, and Route Irish (2010), which were set during the Iraqi occupation, with shorter examinations of personal relationships. Ae Fond Kiss... (a.k.a.) Just a kiss (2004) an inter-racial love affair, Sweet Sixteen (2002) delved into a teen's relationship with his mother, and My Name Is Joe (1998) an alcoholic's struggle to remain sober. Looking for Eric (2009), his most commercial later film, starring a depressed postman's conversations with ex-Manchester United footballer Eric Cantona as himself. The film received the Magritte Award for Best Co-Production. Despite being a hit in Manchester, the film was a flop in many other towns, especially in cities with rival football teams to Manchester United.

The Angels' Share (2012) is based on a young Scottish prisoner who is given the chance to stay out of jail. Paul Brannigan, a young Glasgow native who was born in 1976, appeared in the lead role. At the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Loach received the Jury Prize, and the film competed for the Palme d'Or. In the main competition section of the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Jimmy's Hall (2014) was chosen to represent the Palme d'Or. Following the election of a Conservative government in the United Kingdom general election of 2015, Loach declared his exile from filmmaking in 2014 but soon after resuming his career.

Loach's second Palme d'Or for I, Daniel Blake (2016), was a winner. "Outstanding British Film" was given a BAFTA award in February 2017.

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