{"id":209,"date":"2016-05-24T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/05\/24\/an-intro-to-double-palme-dor-winner-ken-loach\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T13:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T17:38:00","slug":"an-intro-to-double-palme-dor-winner-ken-loach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/05\/24\/an-intro-to-double-palme-dor-winner-ken-loach\/","title":{"rendered":"An intro to double Palme d’Or winner Ken Loach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a choice that shocked many critics, director Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for I, Daniel Blake<\/i>, a drama about a carpenter fighting for disability benefits. This is Loach’s second Palme d’Or (a rare feat) after his 2006 Irish War of Independence film The Wind That Shakes the Barley<\/i>. Already, film critics are debating whether his newest work is too “aggressively Loachian<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

…but what does that mean? If you aren’t familiar with social advocacy British cinema, you may not have encountered the director before. Ken Loach’s films tend to address issues like welfare and labor with a focus on the realistic living conditions of the individuals affected. His 1969 film Kes<\/i>, about a delinquent child with minimal family support who befriends a falcon, has often been considered one of the greatest British films of all time.<\/p>\n

By all descriptions, I, Daniel Blake<\/i> fits that mold for good or for ill; the filmmaker’s work has been criticized as maudlin and unsubtle at its worst. We have a bunch of Loach’s films in our collection \u2013 he’s been active for six decades after all \u2013 so you can judge for yourself.<\/p>\n

Sweet Sixteen \u2013 HU DVD 1133<\/a>
Bread & Roses \u2013 HU DVD 2619 <\/a>
The Navigators \u2013 HU DVD 2653<\/a>
The Wind That Shakes the Barley \u2013 HU DVD 3374<\/a>
The Spirit of ’45 \u2013 HU DVD 7594<\/a>
Kes \u2013 HU DVD 8370<\/a>
Ae Fond Kiss… \u2013 HU DVD 8803 <\/a>
Raining Stones \u2013 HU DVD 10683<\/a><\/p>\n

Great Directors (interview with Loach) \u2013 Streaming video<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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