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Ken Loach

July 2024

  • Durham Miners' Gala

    ‘It’s pure joy’: Durham Miners’ Gala, the world’s biggest celebration of working class culture

    Banner parades, fairground rides and brass bands playing Daft Punk are all set to mark 40 years since the miners’ strike. Locals, ex-miners and Ken Loach tell us why the celebration of colliery life is so significant

May 2024

  • The Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, London.

    Ken Loach and Mike Leigh resign as patrons of London cinema over Israeli film festival screening

    Loach said it was ‘simply unacceptable’ that the cinema is hosting the Seret film festival

April 2024

  • ‘Respect’ … l to r, Ken Loach and Jonathan Glazer.

    Ken Loach speaks out in support of Jonathan Glazer’s ‘occupation’ Oscar speech

    The acclaimed British director said Glazer had ‘understood the possible consequences, which made him braver still’

February 2024

  • Rebecca O’Brien, left, with Paul Laverty and Ken Loach at the Baftas last weekend.

    UK indie films will ‘die’ without fiscal aid, Ken Loach producer says

    Rebecca O’Brien, award-winning collaborator on Loach's films, raised urgent warnings at a select committee inquiry into the industry
  • Emma Stone, who won best actress for Poor Things.

    Baftas 2024: Emma Stone, Gillian Anderson and Cillian Murphy on the big night – in pictures

    Highlights from 2024’s Bafta ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s Southbank
  • Cillian Murphy

    Cillian Murphy: ‘I’d happily appear in Peaky Blinders again’

    The Bafta and Oscar-nominated actor says he would like to reprise his role as the Birmingham gangster Thomas Shelby

December 2023

  • Ridley Scott directing Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon.

    No country for old men? Why Miyazaki, Loach and Scott can’t stop making movies

    Together with Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese and Clint Eastwood, long celebrated film directors are proving that entering their ninth decade and beyond is no barrier to ambition

October 2023

  • Ken Loach, 87,  at the Locarno International film festival in Switzertland.

    ‘Braverman knows exactly what she’s unleashing’: Ken Loach on his latest, and possibly last, film

    The Old Oak, about tensions in a former mining village when refugees arrive, has touched a nerve more raw now than when filming began

September 2023

  • a middle-aged man carrying a banner in a procession, a younger woman walking alongside him

    The Old Oak review – compassionate refugee drama from Ken Loach

    A young Syrian woman and a pub landlord join forces to unite two traumatised communities in the north-east in the veteran director’s forthright, hopeful film
  • Ebla Mari and Dave Turner in The Old Oak.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    The Old Oak review – Ken Loach’s fierce final call for compassion and solidarity

    A northern pub landlord confronts locals’ hostility towards Syrian refugees in Loach’s latest – and possibly last – piece of politically trenchant cinema
  • PAFIGHT<br>Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR for Guardian Majdal Shams, Occupied Golan Heights Syrian Druze actress Ebla Meraj in her home town of Majdal Shams

    ‘Our voices need to be heard’: actor Ebla Mari on Ken Loach, Syria and refugees

    When actor and drama teacher Ebla Mari was treading the boards in her local theatre, she never expected to get a call from Ken Loach

July 2023

  • A scene from Ken Loach’s ground-breaking 1966 drama Cathy Come Home.

    ‘Champion of the invisible’: blue plaque campaign for pioneer on homelessness

    Anton Wallich-Clifford set up homeless venture the Simon Community in the 60s, inspiring other charities. Now supporters want belated recognition for his achievements

June 2023

  • John Harris

    Cold, cynical and paranoid: if this is Labour in opposition, what will it look like in power?

    John Harris
  • David Nellist as Dan in I, Daniel Blake

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

  • Aditya Chakrabortty

    Notes on a scandal: this is how Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie Driscoll – and why it matters

    Aditya Chakrabortty
  • 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

  • Laure Calamy.

    Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy: ‘I have too much energy’

  • "Firebrand (Le Jeu De La Reine)" Red Carpet - The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival, France - 21 May 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Daniele Cifalà/NurPhoto/Shutterstock (13924055ca) Amr Waked, Mina Andala, Sam Riley, Junia Rees, a guest, Gabrielle Tana, director Karim Ainouz, Alicia Vikander, and Jude Law attend the ''Firebrand (Le Jeu De La Reine)'' red carpet during the 76th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 21, 2023 in Cannes, France. "Firebrand (Le Jeu De La Reine)" Red Carpet - The 76th Annual Cannes Film Festival, France - 21 May 2023

    Big names, joyful hugs, auteur fury: verdict and prize predictions for Cannes 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

  • Ebla Mari and Dave Turner in The Old Oak.

    ‘My short term memory is fading and my eyesight is not what it was’: Ken Loach takes his last film to Cannes

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