Weather Afternoon: 11°c Sunny Tonight: 4°c Partly Cloudy Night

News

HEADLINES:
RSS

Ken Loach

Related pictures

Row breaking out between Ken Loach and Edinburgh Film Festival organisers Cannes Film Festival: Britain goes for gold with Ken Loach film starring Eric Cantona

Related topics: 

Latest articles

Historic Phoenix cinema rises with lottery cash

09.07.09
Britain's oldest continuously-working cinema is to be restored to its art deco glory thanks to a lottery grant... more

Ooh La La, Looking for Eric Cantona

12.06.09
Manchester United legend Eric Cantona plays a blinder in Ken Loach's entertaining fantasy about a confused football fan.... more

Row breaking out between Ken Loach and Edinburgh Film Festival organisers

20.05.09
A row has threatened to engulf the Edinburgh International Film Festival.... more

Ken Loach and Eric Cantona hailed Cannes heroes

18.05.09
Ken Loach and Eric Cantona, the new odd couple of British film, were hailed the heroes of Cannes.... more

Cantona plays himself well in Looking For Eric

18.05.09
Cantona, playing himself for the first time, never overcooks his part in Looking for Eric.... more

Teenage star misses Cannes premiere after giving birth

14.05.09
The teenage star of a British film in Cannes will miss her premiere because she has just had a baby.... more

Cannes Film Festival: Britain goes for gold with Ken Loach film starring Eric Cantona

13.05.09
British hopes at the Cannes Film Festival are resting on a Frenchman. Not just any Frenchman, but a footballing genius who happens to be not bad at acting either... more

Movies to watch out for at the Cannes Film Festival

13.05.09
A total of 1,000-plus films are on offer at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Nick Roddick rounds up a few that might be worth a look... more

Loach and Cantona look for prizes at Cannes

23.04.09
Ken Loach, Eric Cantona and Andrea Arnold will fly the flag for Britain at this year’s Cannes Film Festival... more

Top 10 Brit flicks that could be next Slumdog

23.04.09
The pressure is on to emulate the surprise global success of Danny Boyle's film. Here are this year's top 10 homegrown movies that could hit the jackpot.... more

Important lesson in The Class

26.02.09
One teacher's attempt to instil discipline in his unruly class has a lesson for us all in one of the best European films of the year - The Class.... more

Ovation for Blethyn in London River

11.02.09
Bouchareb's portrait of London after the terrorist attacks is startlingly accurate. It is a film no Londoner should miss.... more

Hampstead celebrity residents fight plan for road across heath

30.01.09
Thousands of residents - including actor Michael Palin and film director Ken Loach - have joined forces to fight plans to build a road across Hampstead Heath... more

The best art house films for 2009

29.12.08
Critically and commercially, 2008 has been good for foreign movies and next year looks even better. From a Korean spaghetti western to a Danish war film, expect the unexpected.... more

Teenage dreams in Summer

04.12.08
A coming-of-age drama with a difference, Summer is the story of a man who takes so long to “find himself”.... more

Film

08.10.08
Given the financial hurricane that devasted the City last month, that 2008 is shaping up to be a good year for British film and our leading directors and actors ... more

Runaway with a rose-tinted life

21.08.08
Shane Meadows's latest film, Somers Town, reunites him with young star Thomas Turgoose for a pleasant if undemanding London fable... more

Couscous serves up taste of reality

15.07.08
Couscous revels in the sensuality of food but we never forget about the lives of the people slaving away in kitchens to prepare it.... more

Migrant worker's saga in Fast Labour

06.06.08
Fast Labour captures the subtle power play between an EU citizen Lithuanian and his less fortunate former Soviet brothers.... more

Lights, camera, traction

03.04.08
When two little boys decide to shoot their own version of Rambo: First Blood it’s not long before the mock heroic stunts go wrong. ... more

Actors join battle to save cobbled lane from lorries

18.02.08
Protesters led by actor Tom Conti lay down in the road as they tried to save a historic London street from becoming a rat run for lorries from a nearby building site... more

Lee, Pitt and Blanchett win awards in Venice

10.09.07
Ang Lee's steamy espionage thriller Lust, Caution won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival while Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett took the acting honours.... more

Bending the rules in a cruel world

03.09.07
The Ken Loach film It's a Free World, places the leading character as exploiter rather than exploited.... more

Kicking the bad old habits

26.07.07
While not quite a cult classic in its own right, Sherrybaby comes pretty close, thanks to Maggie Gyllenhaal's blistering performance. ... more

Abortion pic tops Cannes prizes

29.05.07
Romanian film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the Palme d'Or at Cannes - but Brit flick Control, about Joy Division's Ian Curtis, got a special mention.... more

Loach in the hot seat at May Day screening

24.04.07
The Princes Charles cinema is marking May Day with a special screening of Ken Loach's film Kes, followed by a Q&A with the director himself.... more

One thing leads to another

18.01.07
A shot fired in Morocco has tragic consequences that travel round the world in this powerful Golden-Globe winner. Derek Malcolm enjoys Babel.... more

Hollywood's new royalty

16.01.07
After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.... more

Bond girl Eva up for Bafta

08.01.07
Casino Royale Bond girl Eva Green is one of five young film stars who have been nominated for Bafta's Orange Rising Star Award.... more

Dame Helen crowned queen of film awards

30.11.06
Dame Helen Mirren has been crowned queen of the British Independent Film awards after receiving a special award for film achievement.... more

More related topics: Ken Loach and

Latest pictures



Don't Miss
  • Berlin Wall

    Sex, lies and the Stasi

     On this day in 1989 the Berlin Wall was finally breached, ending the reign of East Germany’s feared security service. Here Anne McElvoy, who spent much of the Eighties in the city, recalls her encounters with the spooks
  • George Pringle

    The geeky-girl solo artists descending on the music scene

     Kookiness is what sells music these days and these opinionated artists have it in spades, says Jasmine Gardner

Why Sam's in the clear over that M&S dress

At last the truth about the M&S spotted dress that Sam Cam wore to the Conservative Party Conference

All stories

Promotions

The Open University

Every year The Open University helps thousands of professionals progress in their careers.


Win the Best Seats

In London theatre when you vote for your favourite celebrity spec wearer.


Breast Cancer Care

Donate £1 and leave a message of support for a loved one in the Swarovski Garden of Wishes.


Win an iPodTouch

With Courvoisier when you share your thoughts on this week's cocktail.