Ken Loach

"Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives," top prize-winner at Cannes 2010. Noting the “quiet, reflective nature” of the pictures competing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, jury president and “Alice in Wonderland” director Tim Burton,...

Someone always causes a ruckus at the Toronto film festival. But this year even the reliably controversy-stirring Michael Moore has had to take a back seat to the uproar over a protest letter, signed by a variety of showbiz dignitaries,......

Whether you're a film festival director, a college president or a secretary of state, you know that you've landed in Media Hell when Noam Chomsky, Jane Fonda and Harry Belafonte start signing open letters complaining about your policies. Artists and......

Seven months after "The White Ribbon" and "A Prophet" split the top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, they did so again at the European Film Awards. Cannes' Golden Palm recipient, "The White Ribbon," was voted best picture by the European Film Academy,...

One of Britain's most brilliant, socially conscious filmmakers, Ken Loach has been slugging away at it for  years. He's a fixture at the Cannes Film Festival, a revered maverick. His best known works are probably The Wind that Shakes the Barley and Land....

Michael Kutza (left), founder and artistic director of the Chicago International Film Festival, and Mimi Plauche, festival programming director, at the Unifrance cocktail party, May 19. (Tribune photo by Michael Phillips) CANNES, France — Chicago...

Being a fan these days isn't easy. What do you do when someone you respect and admire takes a political stand that you find abhorrent? I think Sean Penn is a stone-cold brilliant actor, but there is no way to......

The first thing we hear in "Fish Tank" -- the new feature from British director Andrea Arnold -- is heavy breathing. The sound doesn't necessarily match the action, but it becomes a stylistic motif throughout the film, momentarily bonding us to the...

As Iran kicked off its biggest cinematic and cultural event of the year today, a glaring number of politically motivated no-shows became evident. Famed British film director Ken Loach (pictured) and theater director Peter Brook, also from the U.K., were.....

It's a wonder anyone in Hollywood even bothers making movies about social issues anymore, considering the abuse filmmakers have to endure from social activists after their film arrives in theaters. A perfect example would be " The Soloist," which most...

Paris — CROWNED at Cannes one minute only to be buried in Britain the next, Ken Loach's new film, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," arrives in the U.S. with a rabble-rousing reputation. In May, Loach marched up Cannes' red steps to receive his...

His next project, Hanif Kureishi is saying, will be a fat, juicy novel about a shrink, chockablock with "all the stuff that I'm interested in — you know, race, sex, politics, psychoanalysis, literature, TV." The time frame? The 1970s through July...