“It’s not about the money”: the 2012 movie Samantha Morton said “makes ‘Minority Report’ look like a Ken Loach film”
It was an all-time bomb.
Ken Loach
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Ken Loach is an English filmmaker whose uncompromising social realism and politically engaged storytelling have made him one of Britain’s most influential directors.
For more than six decades, Loach has explored themes of class, inequality, workers’ rights and social justice through films that focus on the lives of ordinary people. Best known for directing acclaimed works including ‘Kes’, ‘Riff-Raff’, ‘Land and Freedom’, ‘The Wind That Shakes the Barley’, ‘I, Daniel Blake’ and ‘Sorry We Missed You’, he is one of the few filmmakers to have won the Palme d’Or twice, cementing his place among the most important directors in European cinema.
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The 2014 Ken Loach movie that Pixar saved from disaster: “We’re very grateful”
Didn’t have the materials he desperately needed.
Why Ken Loach has “always regretted” his first movie: “Its birth was rather unfortunate”
Behind-the-scenes drama.
The movie that made Daniel Day-Lewis want to become an actor: “Affected me more than anything”
“Beautiful and heartbreaking.”
Robert Duvall’s career-long fascination with Ken Loach and ‘Kes’
“I know it’s fiction, but how do you get that fine line?”
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Ken Loach is an English filmmaker best known for directing socially realist films including 'Kes', 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley', 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Sorry We Missed You'.
'Kes' is widely regarded as Ken Loach's masterpiece, although 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley', 'I, Daniel Blake', 'Land and Freedom' and 'Sorry We Missed You' are also considered among his finest works.
Ken Loach transformed British cinema through his commitment to social realism, giving voice to working-class communities and tackling issues such as poverty, inequality and workers' rights with honesty and compassion.