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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.
Ken Loach
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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.
Review
Jimmy’s Hall
Director: Ken Loach - Starring: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Jim Norton, Andrew Scott, Brían F O'Byrne, Aisling Franciosi
Cinema
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 describe the film market at Cannes, than the festival.
Cinema
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 head of the BFI Film Find, Ben Roberts, proudly…
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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.
Blog
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.
Review
The Angels’ Share
Luck is running out for unemployed Glasgow youngster Robbie (Paul Brannigan). He's just been convicted of assault and is facing jail time.
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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.
Cinema
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…