Raindance to honour Ken Loach with new award
The Raindance Film Festival is to present its inaugural Auteur Award to the veteran British director Ken Loach. He’ll be presented with the
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Loach’s anti-austerity film wins him a 2nd Palme d’Or
The British director Ken Loach has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time. Ten years after winning
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Cannes you get the message from film?
Some people call it the film industry, others refer to it as the entertainment business but these terms could be said better to
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BFI’s pride at best of British in Cannes
BFI staff posing in “Pits and Perverts” T-shirts to promote Pride, closing the Directors Fortnight at Cannes 2014 On Monday over lunch, the
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Loach and Leigh to go head to head in Cannes
Two British directors will be up against each other for the prestigious Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Both Cannes veterans
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Berlin honours films from China, Japan and the US
The jury at the Berlin Film Festival has given its top prize, the Golden Bear, to the Chinese film Black Coal, Thin Ice.
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Cannes continues its Love affair with Haneke
The Austrian director Michael Haneke has won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time in four years.
His French-language drama Love — about an elderly couple learning to cope with the wife’s stroke — has beaten off
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Rainsoaked Cannes ends with a stroke of genius
It might have been one of the wettest Cannes Film Festivals in living memory, but from from the point of view of the industry, it had to be good news – those spare moments that critics and buyers alike might have
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Loach condemns middle-class censors
Promoting his latest feature, The Angels’ Share,his eleventh in competition here at Cannes, one of Britain’s most acclaimed – if controversial – film-makers, Ken Loach, has launched an outspoken attack on the British Board of Film Classification.
The film, about how
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Handful of Cannes favourites to return to the Croisette
Former winners of the Palme d’Or, including Britain’s Ken Loach and the polyglot Austrian Michael Haneke, are back in competition again at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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