This looks as though it will really be worth watching:
That looks like art with real purpose.
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Looks good, and I’ll watch out for that.
Ken Loach, Mike Leigh (whom I saw on the Charing Cross Rd recently on a training trip to London) are the essential witnesses to the degradation of this country.
I am disgusted that you have shown something produced by a proven anti-semite. The dear leader (Sir Kid Starver) and his acolytes /penumbra would greatly dissaprove & indeed come his ascension to the HoC, laws will be brought out against the showing of such morally divisive stuff & those that spread it. They will be all rigourously extirpated.
Warning for readers from the US of A – the above contains irony – treat with care.
Shukran!
Ken Loach was expelled from the Labour Party for refusing to condemn others who had already been expelled.
If only he could be persuaded to make a film about how the monetary system has been hijacked for the benefit of the richest in society. I’m looking forward to Stephanie the Movie but it won’t get widely distributed. Prime time TV? No chance.
Shukran.
Will definitely be going to see that.
The reason Jamie Driscoll was banned from the labour party was because he had a discussion with Ken Loach about his films, including this one.
I think Ken Loach has said this will be his last film, but I’d love him to do one about finance.
Pleased they got the Durham Miners Gala in the trailer.
It would very difficult to do a film about the monetary system, because the human stories which make Loach’s films compelling are essentially micro, and the monetary system is all macro. He can hint at broader themes, but that doesn’t work very well when what most people have been told about the broader themes is fundamentally misleading (e.g. thinking about public money with the household analogy).
To tackle misconceptions about macro topics requires some exposition, not just examples, and that is unavoidably less dramatic. Perhaps a group of dramatic stories, showing both winners and losers of the monetary system, with a little exposition thrown in as necessary, could be more palatable. But that doesn’t sound so much like a Loach film!
IMDb listing for The Old Oak: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19883634/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1. I hope it gets U.S. distribution.
I hope they are going to show it at the Alun Armstrong Theatre/cinema in Stanley, as his son, Joe, is in it.
Just watched the trailer on nottheandrewmarrshow where people were in tears, including Ken Loach!