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Tag: Ken Loach

The Bad Patriots

Victor Fraga
2024

Paul Risker - 04-11-2024

Brazilian born, London based director Victor Fraga, challenges Britain's self-made myth with the help of Jeremy Corbyn and Ken Loach - from the Sao Paulo International Film Festival [Read More...]

Urban Jungle

Ken Loach
2024

Eoghan Lyng - 01-04-2024

An unrecognisable Penelope Cruz and a gun-toting, animalistic Brian Cox star in what's probably Ken Loach's most unabashedly romantic film (a Liverpool-set drama about a socialist builder and his Palestinian lover) - in cinemas on Friday, April 5th [Read More...]

Ken Loach’s lucid indictment on free market capitalism

 

Victor Fraga - 23-10-2019

Our editor Victor Fraga met up with Ken Loach in order to find out what's gone wrong with workers' rights in the UK, as he releases his new film taking aim at zero-hour contracts [Read More...]

Sorry We Missed You

Ken Loach
2019

Victor Fraga - 17-05-2019

Sorry Britain failed you!!! A delivery man struggles to meet his inhumane targets, in Ken Loach's latest exposé of Britain's failed capitalism - now available on VoD [Read More...]

Ken Loach, Cathy, Crisis and I

 

Julia Spatuzzi Felmanas - 30-01-2017

Did you know that Ken Loach's 1966 classic Cathy Come Home led to the creation of the national homelessness charity Crisis? Julia Spatuzzi shares her experience volunteering at the organisation and ponders the connection between cinema and reality [Read More...]

Ken Loach answers our dirty questions

 

Victor Fraga - 01-11-2016

The veteran and legendary British filmmaker talks exclusively to DMovies about 2,300 Daniel Blakes, a government that deliberately murders people, nostalgic period dramas, Britishness, Brexit, immigration and whether Cathy would be homeless 50 years later! [Read More...]

I, Daniel Blake

Ken Loach
2016

Victor Fraga - 18-10-2016

Britain without dignity and self-respect: Ken Loach's latest drama is an emotional and stinging denunciation of modern Britain's socio-economic failures, and how the benefit system is literally killing people - now also available on Disney+ UK [Read More...]

Poor Cow

Ken Loach
1967

Victor Fraga - 24-06-2016

Ken Loach's realistic classic from 1967 rescues the discreet charm of the British working class and portrays the nation in all of its insular magnificence - on BritBox on Thursday, June 9th [Read More...]