Ken Loach
☼ Born on17 janeiro 1936, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
Biography:
Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, Ken Loach has never succumbed to the siren call of Hollywood, and it's virtually impossible to imagine his particular brand of British socialist realism translating well to that context.
After studying law at St. Peter's College, Oxford, he branched out into the theater, performing with a touring repertory company. This led to television, where in alliance with producer Tony Garnett he produced a series of docudramas, most notably the devastating "Cathy Come Home" episode of The Wednesday Play (1964), whose impact was so massive that it led directly to a change in the homeless laws.
He made his feature debut Poor Cow (1967) the following year, and with Os Dois Indomáveis (1969), he produced what is now acclaimed as one of the finest films ever mad
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e in Britain. However, the following two decades saw his career in the doldrums with his films poorly distributed (despite the obvious quality of work such as The Gamekeeper (1968) and Olhares e Sorrisos (1981)) and his TV work in some cases never broadcast (most notoriously, his documentaries on the 1984 miners' strike).
He made a spectacular comeback in the 1990s, with a series of award-winning films firmly establishing him in the pantheon of great European directors - his films have always been more popular in mainland Europe than in his native country or the US (where Riff-Raff (1991) was shown with subtitles because of the wide range of dialects). Agenda Secreta (1990) won the Special Jury Prize at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival; Riff-Raff (1991) won the Felix award for Best European Film of 1992; Chuva de Pedras (1993) won the Cannes Special Jury Prize for 1993, and Terra e Liberdade (1995) won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival - and was a substantial box-office hit in Spain where it sparked intense debate about its subject matter. This needless to say, was one of the reasons that Loach made the film!
In the role of director
O último pub (04/08/2024)
Na minha opinião (e estamos aqui para eu dar minha opinião mesmo, eu nem precisava enfatizar), os pubs britânicos são mais legais do que os pubs irlandeses. Puramente baseado em minha experiência pessoal de ter morado tanto em Londres quanto em Galway: pubs irlandeses são confortáveis, porém costumam ser escuros e meio barulhentos. Os pubs […]