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Welcome to JIMMY’S HALL

July 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Welcome to JIMMY’S HALL

Ken Loach has never been a filmmaker to shy away from politics. In fact, a case could be made that the reason he makes films is to explore politics, the which he has done with such strident films as BREAD AND ROSES (union organizing in contemporary Los Angeles) and LAND AND FREEDOM (the Spanish Civil… Read More »

Tagged With: Aileen Henry, Andrew Scott, Barry Ward, based on a true story, Donal O'Kelly, exile, Ireland, Iris Civil War, Irish Civil War, Jim Norton, Ken Loach, Marxism, narrative, Paul Laverty, Simone Kirby, stage to screen

Asif Kapadia and AMY Winehouse

July 8, 2015 By 2 Comments

Asif Kapadia and AMY Winehouse

Asif Kapadia hadn’t been a particular fan of Amy Winehouse when she was alive. He was, of course, aware of her, both the tabloid coverage and the assurance from friends he trusted that she had one of the best voices ever to be recorded. When he took on the project of making a documentary about… Read More »

Tagged With: addiction, advice, alcohol abuse, Alfred Hitchcock, Amy Winehouse, Asif Kapadia, Back to Black, Blake Fielder-Civil, documentary, drug abuse, early death, jazz, jazz singer, Ken Loach, Nick Shymansky, North London, recording artist, SENNA, Serbian concert

SWEET SIXTEEN

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SWEET SIXTEEN

With ironically titled SWEET SIXTEEN Ken Loach has finally taken his considerable filmmaking talents and used them to make a movie, not a broadsheet. Instead of a screed that thumps its audience over the head with a black-and-white world view of good and evil as in CARLA’S SONG, this is a working class tragedy of… Read More »

Tagged With: Annmarie Fulton, child abandonment, Glasgow, Ken Loach, Martin Compston, Paul Laverty, SWEET SIXTEEN, unemployment

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