GRAHAM FULLER

Ken Loach es uno de los directores más prestigiosos del cine contemporáneo. Su filmografía es notable y está cargada de compromiso y denuncia. Es el único director de cine actual que antepone la funcion polemizante de su trabajo a las necesidades comerciales. En esta obra, Loach explica cual es su postura ante el cine y el arte en general. Riff-Raff recibio un Felix europeo, Lloviendo piedras gano el Premio del Jurado del Festival de Cannes, y Tierra y libertad -basada en la Guerra Civil española- gano el premio Internacional de la Critica del Festival de Cannes. A lo largo de su carrera Loach ha creado una filmografia de caracter social absolutamente singular.

A master of world cinema. Cililan MurphySince the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work includes The Wind That Shakes the Barley and the North East trilogy that concludes six decades behind the camera and continued the directors blistering attack on ruling-class oppression and the exploitation of ordinary working people.Thanks to Loachs close collaboration with the screenwriter Paul Laverty and support from the producer Rebecca OBrien, this post-1998 period has proved the most compassionate, consistent and stylistically assured of Loachs career. In a series of lively conversations, Loach assesses the making of these humanistic films and the thinking behind them in considerable detail, further adding to his reasoned and incisive commentary on the state of British politics from the Thatcher era through to the rise of Keir Starmer.