News
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
News
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.
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…
News
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.
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…
News
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.
News
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…
News
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.