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I, Daniel Blake

June 2023

  • David Nellist as Dan in I, Daniel Blake

    I, Daniel Blake review – moving stage adaptation by the star of the film

  • Plea for compassion … David Nellist as Daniel, with Jodie Wild and Bryony Corrigan.

    I, Daniel Blake review – Kafkaesque benefits story rekindles righteous anger

May 2023

  • Dave Johns actor

    ‘Eat your gruel and be thankful for it’: why the hero of I, Daniel Blake is taking it to the stage

    Seven years on, Ken Loach’s angriest film still shocks with its portrayal of life on benefits. It made Dave Johns a star – but did nothing to mellow his righteous fury

November 2022

  • Briana Shann, Hayley Squires, Dave Johns and Dylan McKiernan in I, Daniel Blake (2016).

    I, Daniel Blake to be adapted for stage and updated for cost-of-living crisis

    The story of a widowed joiner and a young single mother has been written by Dave Johns, who played the title role in Ken Loach’s 2016 film

October 2019

  • A scene from Sorry We Missed You, directed by Ken Loach and produced by Rebecca O’Brien for Sixteen Films.

    Brief letters
    Low-cost screenings of Ken Loach’s films

  • Hayley Squires and Dave Johns in I, Daniel Blake

    Ranked
    Ken Loach – all his films ranked!

May 2019

  • Bacurau film still

    Ken Loach has competition: meet the new heroes of socially conscious cinema

    Caspar Salmon
  • Dignity amid tragedy … Sorry We Missed You.

    Sorry We Missed You review – Ken Loach's superb swipe at zero-hours Britain

March 2019

  • Ray & Liz

    Steve Rose on film
    Reality bites: does Ray & Liz avoid the poverty porn trap?

    Richard Billingham’s new film centres on working-class strife, but it’s no gratuitous wallow

September 2018

  • 2015, KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE<br>COLIN FIRTH &amp; TARON EGERTON Character(s): Harry Hart, Gary 'Eggsy' Unwin Film 'KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE' (2015) Directed By MATTHEW VAUGHN 27 January 2015 SAJ37598 Allstar/20TH CENTURY FOX (UK/USA 2015) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of 20TH CENTURY FOX and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To 20TH CENTURY FOX is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company. Entertainment Orientation Landscape

    British cinema’s exclusion of the young, skint and state educated is a national shame

    Danny Leigh
    The 1963 arrival of Billy Liar looked like the beginnings of a more democratic, working-class film industry. So why are we still stuck with polite social realism and sniggery classism?

August 2017

  • Dave Johns: ‘Because I’m this age, I know that it’s all fluff… you’ve got to take it with a pinch of salt.’

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Dave Johns: ‘I was about to pack it in when Ken Loach got in touch’

  • Dave Johns.

    Dave Johns review – heartwarming tale of late-in-life change from I, Daniel Blake star

July 2017

  • EE BAFTA British Academy Film Awards, Press Room, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - 12 Feb 2017<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Joanne Davidson/SilverHub/REX/Shutterstock (8344872aw) Dave Johns, Ken Loach, Rebecca O'Brien, Paul Laverty EE BAFTA British Academy Film Awards, Press Room, Royal Albert Hall, London, UK - 12 Feb 2017

    Ken Loach’s film company: We support the cultural boycott of Israel

    Letters: Every penny that comes from the sale of I Daniel Blake to Israeli distributors will go to grassroots Palestinian organisations, write Paul Laverty, Ken Loach and Rebecca O’Brien from Sixteen Films. Plus Sharon Lukom cautions against boycotts
  • Ken Loach speaks at the Durham Miners’ Gala, UK, on 8 July.

    Ken Loach accused of exempting himself from cultural boycott of Israel

    Films by the director, a vocal critic of artists who perform in Israel, have been widely shown in the country
  • Ken Loach in Cannes last year with the Palme d’Or he won

    Ending free movement to UK will damage film industry, says Ken Loach

    British film-making will suffer if Brexit puts obstacles in the way of European nationals working in UK, says director

March 2017

  • A composite of Donald Glover as Earnest Marks in Atlanta, Rachel Griffiths as Diane in When We Rise, and Reese Witherspoon as Madeleine in Big Little Lies.

    Stream lover
    From When We Rise to Big Little Lies: the best of film and TV streaming in Australia in March

    David Bowie cult classics, Korean arthouse thrillers, and Aussie soap opera favourites, here’s what’s coming to streaming services in Australia this month

February 2017

  • Julian Dennison as Ricky and Sam Neill as Hec in Hunt for the Wilderpeople

    Here's who should've won the Oscars – according to our readers

  • OJ Simpson and Nicole Brown’s wedding day, from the Oscar-nominated OJ: Made in America,

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    You be the judge: how to watch the Oscar hopefuls

  • Frances Ryan

    Hardworking Britain
    I, Daniel Blake is a realistic depiction of life on benefits. Isn’t it?

    Frances Ryan
  • Briana Shann, Hayley Squires, Dave Johns and Dylan McKiernan in a scene from I, Daniel Blake

    Ken Loach tells the grisly truth about benefits

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