So presumably the Pinefox won't be anticipating Looking for Eric, starring Eric Cantona as himself.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
some footballer eh? Opens in US in May.
a "bittersweet comedy about a postman whose downward-spiralling life is given a sudden boost of inspiration"
Not titled Looking for Eric H to See One of My Films
― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Friday, 12 February 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
looks like he's putting his films on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/KenLoachFilmshttp://www.youtube.com/show/kenloach
― abanana, Sunday, 9 May 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of tells you how much of a shit he gives about the medium he works in
― Greatest contributor: (history mayne), Sunday, 9 May 2010 18:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so is looking for eric any good
will it be comprehensible to someone who doesnt know who eric cantona is
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 6 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't know who he was and was quite amused.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
anyone seen The Angel's Share?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
no. considering.
― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link
Yes - it's a good companion piece to The Kid With a Bike.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 07:32 (ten years ago) link
Probably the funniest Loach.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 08:53 (ten years ago) link
anyone seen /The Angel's Share/?
― Retreat from the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
Clio Barnard's follow up to The Arbor, The Selfish Giant looks very promising and is picking up rave reviews. She has utilised local non-professional actors Loach style. I love that bit from the trailer, angry mum: "You have been excluded from school" "Sick!".
I worked on some of the most deprived estates in Bradford for 4 years and as someone who grew up on a council estate I was still shocked at the extreme poverty I saw; as in rooms that smell of raw ammonia, houses without furniture, carpets or bedding that children lived in, houses without any heating because tenants had ripped out their own heating system as scrap.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/24/the-selfish-giant-review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tEgcpTbvJ8
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
Anyone who has seen Jimmy's Hall yet? It's not a good film, but it's pretty funny for a last film for a political filmmaker. A story about an old fighter returning one last time to fight the battle, does exactly the same thing he did before, and loses all over again. I'd read Jimmy Gralton as a standin for Loach himself, not because it's necessarily true, but because it makes it all bleakly funny. Older, but non the wiser. If only the filmmaking didn't trap it all up constantly, never ever selling what is going on as having any kind of significance whatsoever.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 16 May 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
It's an interesting period in Irish history (mid 1930s) that's never really been covered in film before. I found it slightly average though, something lacking or too pandering to mainstream tastes which has hampered some of his later work. Jim Norton is excellent in this though.
― tayto fan (Michael B), Saturday, 16 May 2015 19:15 (eight years ago) link
Just watching The Price Of Coal tonight, it is so good and on youtube in it's entirety.
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 21:46 (eight years ago) link
Thought revive would be Barry Hines related.
― Woke Up Scully (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 22:45 (eight years ago) link
It absolutely is, it was someone mentioning this on two different RIP threads, one of them on a different board that made me want to watch it.
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 22:56 (eight years ago) link
Lol the "SCARGILL RULES OK" graffiti; "Some Vandals, some pillock morelike"
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 23:41 (eight years ago) link
No issue with the politics or the message of "I, Daniel Blake" but the movie, as a piece of art, has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Its realism is contrived, "Clunky, bolted together" as Tom D said above.
This is more to do with Paul Laverty's script rather than Ken Loach imo
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Saturday, 12 November 2016 08:36 (seven years ago) link
I can't shake how much Dave Johns looks and sounds like Phil Collins.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:18 (seven years ago) link
How can he sound like Phil Collins, he's from Wallsend?
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
Collins has faked northeastern accents before to make himself sound "local."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
He has?
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:26 (seven years ago) link
http://www.brandalert.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/nonce-sense-social-media.jpg
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
I'm perhaps not as au fait with the corpus of collins' forays as a thespian as i could be but I've never heard him do anything but a london accent
― harold melvin and the bluetones (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:39 (seven years ago) link
Maybe he means Romford.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
i liked the angel's share
rewatched kes a year or two back and found it harder work than i expected -- perhaps because i'd over-invested in my memory of it (my mum took me to see it when it came out, when i was 9 or 10)
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:22 (seven years ago) link
It wasn't at all clunky, wtf?
Art = stuff. Don't worry about it.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
Good movie, and it wasn't a sledgehammer.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 23:59 (seven years ago) link
Alfred, you still haven't answered the question
― An Alan Bennett Joint (Michael B), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:19 (seven years ago) link
About Phil Collins and Johns? I was thinking of Collins when he talks in 'Miami Vice' and his videos and tries to be the American idea of a Funny Local. It was a dumb point and I retract it.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
The Angel's Share was basically Pride, but with whiskey instead of gays and the old ladies who love them.
― Ballistic: ILX vs. Sever (Eric H.), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 01:04 (seven years ago) link
this film was wonderful
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
i watched land and freedom last night as part of barcelona trip prep and loved it again
yes loach doesn't do "character" the way we expect film characters to be but in land and freedom it's actually very appropriate. the political was indistinguishable from the personal for a lot of the utopian collectivists who took up arms for the POUM. there is a moment in a barcelona pension when the lover of our liverpudlian hero says "i took a 7 day leave.. for a few days i don't want politics, no fighting, no trenches, i just want to feel human" and well i could not help peanut-gallerying "i regret to inform you are in a ken loach film my dear". the next morning she wakes up, discovers our liverpudlian hero has abandoned the POUM and is joining the regular communist-led brigades. she instantly disowns him, disavows her love, is off. they were so close to being "human", to being "characters"! but she gives it up in an instant when she discovers it might involve any sort of compromise. to me this feels extremely apposite to what people in that war were wrestling with.
the most interesting "character" to me by far is the granddaughter sorting through the clippings. up until the very last moment we think we know her story, and we think she's alone at the funeral, the only one who knows or cares about any of this. but she's found the old guy's buddies from the brigade! she's invited them! and she believes in the struggle! it's absurdly over the top and i loved it
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 28 April 2017 10:53 (six years ago) link
One of his very best. I vividly remember long and loud applause at the Gft when it finished and that was not a special screening or a premier or anything. Need to revisit it.
― Heavy Doors (jed_), Friday, 28 April 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
Up the Junction is amazing
― plax (ico), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:03 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wvGbwwWBXI
hi plax! xo
(send me your email, i've lost it again)
Haven't seen any TV stuff that early, just Cathy Come Home, which is the next year. Carol White is also in that, and Poor Cow.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
The Price of Coal is still on youtube. It has really cracking, angry class-war dialogue, but also mixes it with genuinely funny shit. And I think generally, Loach is very bad at doing humour. But some of the cast playing miners + middle management were Northern comedy circuit/WMC type comedians and made the best of the funny stuff. Also I only just noticed Bobby Knutt died last month (RIP), he is really good in this.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
that song is awesome.
plax, i sent you an email through ILX, did you get it?
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Sunday, 29 October 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
saw Ladybird Ladybird (35mm) for the first time in ~25 years yesterday; what a punishing scorcher. Glad to see Crissy Rock has had a career, albeit little that's made it to the US apparently.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 May 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Sorry We Missed You is tremendous, their best since The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Rarely has a film insisting on the on-the-nose been this empathetic and worth the on-the-noseness.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 June 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
is 'their' Loach's pronoun?
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link
Didn't even notice, a result of writing an email to a student at the same time.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:06 (three years ago) link
He should really put that on his Twitter profile.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
Assumed you meant Loach and Paul Laverty.
― Rapsputin (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
Loach and the working class
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
lol
― Rapsputin (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
The Them That Theys The Theirsly
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 18 June 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
I'm never going to agree with your opinions on the Loach project but understand where you are coming from though plax and peace to you!
― calzino, Friday, 17 July 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Leigh spent a lot of time being a snide patronising wanker I think, the recent history films feel like an anomaly to some extent
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Friday, 17 July 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
I still find his shitty caricature movies at least less boring than Loach. But yah his late period stuff, in particular the last two have been some of hist best.
― calzino, Friday, 17 July 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
My gosh "Black Jack" is great.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 4 April 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link
Just was face to face with a kestrel hawk at my daughter’s college.
― Smike and Pmith (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 October 2023 15:15 (five months ago) link
there is a guy who lives across the road from me who looks a lot like a young Brian Glover, but balder than he was in the late 60's and with tribal tatts.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 21 October 2023 16:06 (five months ago) link
If you have a very high threshold for emotional manipulation--I don't know if even Frank Capra would have included the dog stuff here (twice over)--I recommend The Old Oak. I think it would be a better film without that, and without some of the speechifying (Yara and TJ get one each), but there are still many fine moments throughout. I think the only other Loach films I've seen are Poor Cow and Kes, both long ago. So another disclaimer: I don't know how this squares with the quality of all his other films.
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 April 2024 22:42 (five days ago) link
And I love dogs!
― clemenza, Saturday, 13 April 2024 22:43 (five days ago) link
Reading up some, I didn't realize Loach was 87 (should have, or at least close) or that he says this will be his last film (something he's said a couple of other times, evidently). I won't withdraw anything I say above, but if he does follow through on that and walks away, I expect this will be remembered whenever the subject of greatest final films comes up.
Director's Final Films
― clemenza, Sunday, 14 April 2024 04:32 (four days ago) link
I have a nutty story about Ken Loach. Back in the late '00s, I went to see a schoolmate of mine who had returned home to London. He knew how much I loved films so he took me to the BFI, and as we walked around, he ran into a woman he knew who was with a much older man. He and the woman started talking, and it was one of those things where you end up withdrawing because it's clearly a private moment between two people that doesn't involve you. So as I'm just hanging about, I make eye contact with the older guy and I'm just like "how you doing?" and he's like "all right" and we proceed to have a polite, cordial but thoroughly bland chat since we were complete strangers who on the surface didn't remotely have much in common. Finally my friend wraps up his conversation and we all part ways. He immediately apologizes, explaining that not only was that an ex-girlfriend (with whom he had a recent break-up) but she was now working for Ken Loach, and that was the guy I was talking to. I 100% knew who he was, I just had no idea what he looked like before. And he would've said something but it was just a terribly awkward encounter to see his ex. Totally understood, but still, ugh...
Anyway, there's a massive Ken Loach retrospective that starts at Film Forum this week. Highly recommend it because so many of those films aren't easily found in the best quality here in the U.S. (They may not stream or they may only have old SD transfers available for home viewing, in which case seeing it in 35mm will be a real treat.)
https://filmforum.org/series/ken-loach
― birdistheword, Sunday, 14 April 2024 05:05 (four days ago) link