{"id":1065,"date":"2007-10-31T04:20:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/10\/31\/ken-loach-interview\/"},"modified":"2010-11-29T23:11:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T23:11:22","slug":"ken-loach-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/10\/31\/ken-loach-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Loach Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ken<\/a>Ken Loach<\/strong><\/a> has been one of England’s best and most important directors for many years.<\/p>\n

Since making his mark in the 60s with the landmark TV dramas Cathy Come Home<\/a> and Up the Junction<\/a>, he has show a keen and uncompromising ability to tackle social issues head on in his films.<\/p>\n

They have ranged from adolescence (Kes<\/a>), Northern Ireland (Hidden Agenda<\/a>), builders (Riff-Raff<\/a>), the Spanish Civil War (Land and Freedom<\/a>), the social services (Ladybird, Ladybird<\/a>), alcoholism (My Name is Joe<\/a>) and the plight of Californian workers (Bread and Roses<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I spoke with Ken recently about his latest film It’s A Free World<\/strong><\/a> and the release of The Ken Loach Collection<\/strong><\/a> which is out now on DVD in two<\/a> volumes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Have a listen to the interview by clicking below:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Ken_Loach_Interview.MP3]\n

You can also download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n

> Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
\n <\/a>> Ken Loach at the IMDb<\/a>
\n> Find out more about Ken’s career at Screen Online<\/a>
\n> Senses of Cinema essay on Ken by Mike Robins<\/a>
\n> Buy The Ken Loach Collection on DVD at Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ken Loach discusses various films from his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19,15],"tags":[1420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}