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Ken Loach Films
Ken Loach is the most admired and respected UK filmmaker of his generation. Forty years of films and TV plays about ordinary people in ‘real’ social situations is a rare achievement, especially when they display a combination of genuine social comment and real warmth. There are few bodies of work in cinema that include as many compelling, human stories.
 Kes1969, Ken Loach, DVD Still Loach's best-known and best-loved film adapted from the Barry Hines novel A Kestrel for a Knave. The portrait of northern working class life remains as pertinent and fiercely unsentimental almost 30 years on, and everyone remembers the famou... £5.99 RRP: £15.99
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Ken Loach at the BBC1965-77, Ken Loach, DVD Ken Loach is one of Britain’s most respected film directors with a career spanning over 40 years. From his pioneering days with the BBC, scripting and directing Cathy Come Home in 1966, to the Palme d’Or winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Lo... £37.99 RRP: £49.99
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Black Jack1979, Ken Loach, DVD When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums and travelling fairs they find friendship in the m... £7.99 RRP: £15.99
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Land and Freedom1995, Ken Loach, DVD Larger in scope than any previous Loach film and the Spanish Civil war sequences have an authenticity often lacking in popular entertainment movies. The subject may be historical, but there's not a hint of 'heritage'. Jim Allen's screenplay connec... £14.99 RRP: £19.99
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Cathy Come Home1965, Ken Loach, DVD Probably the most famous British television play ever, Ken Loach's Cathy Come Home, made for the BBC's Wednesday Play series, was watched by a quarter of the population on its first broadcast in 1966. Its impact was enormous, provoking questions i... £14.88 RRP: £16.33
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 Route Irish2010, Ken Loach, DVD Ken Loach's Route Irish is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller that delivers a fresh insight into the moral and political corruption at play in Iraq. Along with his best friend and colleague Frankie (John Bishop), Liverpudlian ex-soldier Fergus (... £14.59 RRP: £15.99
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Family Life1971, Ken Loach, DVD A pale and lovely Sandy Ratcliffe plays a shop girl whose schizophrenia is seemingly induced by her upright, insensitive parents. There aren’t many laughs in David Mercer’s script (already filmed by Loach as a ‘Wednesday Play’ in 1967), but there ... £7.99 RRP: £17.99
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 The Wind That Shakes the Barley (1 disc)2006, Ken Loach, DVD Ken Loach's deserving Palme D'Or winner is a searing and powerful depiction of the Irish War Of Independence, focussing on two brothers who find themselves on different sides during the conflict. Its representation of what happens when an occupyin... £6.99 RRP: £15.99
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 Raining Stones1993, Ken Loach, DVD This Loach comedy of the hard life reflects his unwavering left-wing sympathies and has a truly satisfactory ending, as just for once, life dishes out justice for a change. Ricky Tomlinson is on form together with Bruce Jones (Coronation Street's ... £6.99 RRP: £15.99
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 Poor Cow1967, Ken Loach, DVD A combination of Wednesday Play realism and commercial "Swinging London" movie, this contains elements which were to become basics of Loach's method. Young mother Joy (Carol White) is forced to fend for herself when her brutal and uncaring husband... £7.99 RRP: £15.99
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 Riff Raff1990, Ken Loach, DVD Witty and naturalistic, Riff-Raff has strong messages for workers in Thatcher's Britain: drugs, day-dreams and horoscope escapisms are out, mutual support and retaliation, in! There are vintage Robert Carlyle and Ricky Tomlinson roles, plus an unf... £6.99 RRP: £15.99
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 Sweet Sixteen2002, Ken Loach, DVD A Scottish teenager whose mother is in prison tries to raise the money for a home so that when she comes out she will be safe from the likes of her former boyfriend. An uncompromising and fiercely unsentimental slice of raw social realism that com... £6.99 RRP: £12.99
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 Bread and Roses2000, Ken Loach, DVD Sisters Maya and Rosa are Mexican immigrant cleaners who work in L.A., earn a pittance and get treated like dogs. A young activist offers hope when he vows to help them get the justice and dignity they deserve. Inspired by the real life 'Justice f... £5.99 RRP: £15.99
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 Ladybird Ladybird1994, Ken Loach, DVD Very powerful drama based on a real-life story of a damaged single mother at odds with the social services. Ray Winstone provides a cameo of Nil by Mouth-style domestic violence, but it is a love story and the central performances of Crissy Rock a... £6.99 RRP: £15.99
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 Ae Fond Kiss2004, Ken Loach, DVD Loach's most optimistic film to date asks some hard questions about religion, race and immigration in multi-cultural Britain. With insight and compassion, the film examines the culture clashes faced by second generation immigrants, to produce an i... £6.99 RRP: £12.99
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