Biography ken loach it a freedom
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Ken Loach
English filmmaker (born 1936)
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English filmmaker. His socially critical directing style and socialist views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy komma Home, 1966), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001).
Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll bygd the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only ten filmmakers to win the award twice.[3] He also holds the record for the most films screened in the main competition at Cannes with 15.[4]
Early life
[edit]Kenneth Charles Loach was born in Nuneaton on 17 June 1936, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach.[5] He attended King Edward VI Gramm
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Ken Loach has been making films since the mid-1960’s，and his topics of choice remain the class system，poverty and the tribulations of the under-privileged. Although his subject matter is often hard and gritty，it is always imbued with sympathy and affection for his characters and their plight. He has made films about political violence in Northern Ireland (Hidden Agenda 1990)，Nicaragua (Carla’s Song 1996) and Civil War-era Spain (Land and Freedom 1995) as well as about social misery in London and Glasgow; about Los Angeles janitors (Bread and Roses 2000)，and Yorkshire railway workers (The Navigators 2001).
Biography
Ken Loach’s films are based in reality，for the most part working-class reality，and are an expression of his political commitments. Loach does not work with big budgets or big stars -on the contrary，he is inclined to find people who have never acted before. A
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Your films often portray childhood as a traumatic time. Can you tell us a little about your own upbringing, and how it shaped your values?
I grew up in the Forties and Fifties, in a small town in the Midlands. People now would think it was quite boring, but in fact from a child’s point of view it was the opposite: I had all the benefits of growing up – after the war, which was uppenbart a big upheaval for everybody – in a comparatively stilla, stable and secure world.
Was there any radicalism in your background?
No, by no means. I didn’t really get involved in anything remotely political until after I’d left university and I was mixing with writers and friends who were in television and film, starting to read, going to meetings – going through the experience of working for Harold Wilson’s election and then seeing what happened. Going through all that in the Sixties was what my politics sprang from.
Did you come from a middle-class family?
No. My father