Happy Birthday Ken Loach, amazing filmmaker

[coda]

http://www.alt-flix.co.uk/direcgui/kenloach.htm

[SHORAS]

Hmm, dunno about amazing. A lot of people find them quite patronising. Can't think of anything original or subversive in his films and I've seen a few. I did like Family Life however. Quite dark and depressing and think many of the 'values' in the film are alive and well. I certainly could relate to the film decades after its release, sadly.

[coda]

patronizing? how so? I haven't viewed all of his films so I can't really say..

What I have seen, I love and think it's original and revolutionary--- Land and Freedom, Bread and Roses, the Wind that Shakes the Barley, Carla's song....

[Le Socialiste]

I loved The Wind That Shakes the Barley and Land and Freedom. Have you seen The Big Flame?

[coda]

No, I haven't..

[Le Socialiste]

It's great, it's on youtube - you should check it out. It's about dockworkers in the UK who suddenly decide to take over and occupy the docks and run things themselves. It's the first film I saw by Loach.

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[brigadista]

Its a free world

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[Angry Young Man]

Kes atones for the tedium of all his other films. Land and Freedom's good, but they're all the same. But he lays it on a bit thick, and when a Marxist is anaesthetising himself against the vulgar sensitivity, you can't call him a good film maker.

[Invader Zim]

The Wind That Shakes the Barley is garbage, preachy banal bullshit.

[Le Socialiste]

The Wind That Shakes the Barley is garbage, preachy banal bullshit


Well, that's your opinion.

[coda]

<It's great, it's on youtube>

Thanks!

and thanks Brigadista!

[brigadista]

<It's great, it's on youtube>

Thanks!

and thanks Brigadista!
:):)