While the 87-year-old Ken Loach is still with us, the legendary director has indicated The Old Oak, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival, will be his last work. Following a pub owner in a dilated ...

The third installment in Ken Loach’s unofficial trilogy of films set in austerity-era northeastern England, “The Old Oak” looks at what happens when immigrant families from Syria arrive in an ...

Hilary Remley is a News Writer at Collider. She is a recent graduate of SUNY Albany. Iconic British director Ken Loach has announced his retirement from filmmaking. The director, who turns 87 in June, ...

Ken Loach, the acclaimed director known for creating socially conscious and politically charged films, is back with The Old Oak, a movie examining racial tension, migration, and solidarity in modern ...

In so many ways, TJ Ballantyne is a classic Ken Loach hero: a working-class, middle-aged man trying to simply eke out a dignified living, but meeting obstacles at each turn — a victim of unforgiving ...

Since 1967′s “Poor Cow,” Ken Loach has been one of the foremost directors of social-realism films dealing with the working class. He has won the Palme d’Or at Cannes twice — a feat achieved by only 10 ...

English filmmaker Ken Loach is 87 and has been directing for almost 60 years. He has decided that his latest feature, The Old Oak, about Syrian war refugees resettling in a dying English town, will be ...

In so many ways, TJ Ballantyne is a classic Ken Loach hero: a working-class, middle-aged man trying to simply eke out a dignified living, but meeting obstacles at each turn — a victim of unforgiving ...

A retrospective of the director’s work at Film Forum shows how his movies have kept a focus on working-class solidarity. By Jeannette Catsoulis A family of Syrian refugees connects with a ...

After close to 60 years in the industry, director Ken Loach is retiring. At the grand age of 87, the two-time Palme d’Or winner is leaving us with one last film, and it’s a striking and deeply ...