Ken Loach Collection Vol 2

Synopsis
This collection brings together many of Ken Loach’s most celebrated films, along with some that are ripe for rediscovery. This second collection brings together many of his most celebrated films, along with some that are ripe for rediscovery. Featured titles are Cathy Come Home (1965), Hidden Agenda (1990), Land and Freedom (1995), Carla’s Song (1996), My Name is Joe (1998), Sweet Sixteen (2002), Ae Fond Kiss (2004) and The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006).

DVD extras: 8 discs; Director commentaries; Documentaries; Booklet; 2006 documentary about Ken Loach’s 40 year career making films.
Language
English
Country
Great Britain
Year of release
2007
Year of production
1965-2006
Notes
Some of the individual films are available separately on DVD
Subjects
Film studies
Keywords
British cinema; Loach, Ken; realism; political issues

Credits

Director
Ken Loach

Distribution Formats

Type
DVD
Format
Region 2 PAL
Price
£59.99
Availability
Sale
Duration/Size
691 minutes
Year
2007

Sections

Title
Cathy Come Home
Synopsis
Cathy Come Home is probably the most famous British television play ever, watched by a quarter of the population on its first broadcast in 1966. Its impact was enormous, provoking questions in the Houses of Parliament and helping to launch the housing charity Shelter. Ken Loach and producer Tony Garnett also ushered in a new style of television drama, taking the cameras onto the streets and fusing documentary and drama styles to give the story an extra sense of reality, and a devastating emotional impact. A bleak and uncompromising view of how inflexible officialdom splits families and ruins lives. Broadcast in the ‘Wednesday Play’ series on BBC 1 on 16/11/1966.
Duration
73 mins

Title
Hidden Agenda
Synopsis
An American lawyer is killed in Northern Ireland after failing to stop at a road block. A top-ranking police officer is called upon to investigate the circumstances surrounding his death. A taut, intriguing and exciting political thriller. (1990)
Duration
108 mins

Title
Land and Freedom
Synopsis
Land and Freedom is larger in scope than any previous Loach film and the Spanish Civil war sequences have a great authenticity. Jim Allen’s screenplay connects the political education of Ian Hart’s Liverpudlian volunteer with that of his 1990s granddaughter. (1995)

NB The film is available separately on DVD (ref no ART123DVD) from retail outlets price £19.99
Duration
104 mins

Title
Carla’s Song
Synopsis
Carla’s Song sees Robert Carlyle’s pawky Glasgow bus driver wooing and winning Carla, a Nicaraguan refugee. When the couple move to Central America, Glaswegian wit cannot cope with what it encounters in a homeland subject to Contra attacks and the love story has to end - to be replaced by another one. The humour in the first half of Paul Laverty’s script foreshadows that of My Name Is Joe. (1996, 127 minutes)

NB The film is available separately on DVD (ref no 8227894) from retail outlets price £19.99
Duration
127 mins

Title
My Name is Joe
Synopsis
The drug addicts, dealers, and long-term unemployed are powerfully depicted in this drama set in contemporary Glasgow. Paul Laverty makes sure that humour and romance have their place in his screenplay. (1998, 105 minutes)
Duration
105 mins

Title
Sweet Sixteen
Synopsis
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 comes over like a Scottish Kes. (2002, 106 minutes)

NB The film is available separately on DVD (ref no ICON10024) from retail outlets price £12.99
Duration
106 mins

Title
Ae Fond Kiss
Synopsis
Ae Fond Kiss is Loach’s most optimistic film to date, and 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 intelligent and entertaining love story. The parents of Casim Khan have decided that he is to marry Jasmine, his cousin. Casim, however, takes matters into his own hands when he embarks upon a relationship with Roisin, an Irish Catholic. English and Punjabi dialogue.
(2004, 104 minutes)

NB The film is available separately on DVD (ref no ICON 10041) from retail outlets price £12.99
Duration
104 mins

Title
Wind that shakes the Barley, The
Synopsis
A searing and powerful depiction of the Irish War Of Independence, focusing on two brothers who find themselves on different sides during the conflict. Its representation of what happens when an occupying force withdraws is clearly applicable to current events, and this is a great piece of angry political cinema. (2006)

NB The film is available separately on DVD (ref no P919401001) from retail outlets price £19.99
Duration
127 mins

Distributor

 

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Name

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