Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach Page #3

Synopsis: Documentary on the life and times of Ken Loach. His politics in British TV and Cinema and the chaos he has caused the establishment for 50 years.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Louise Osmond
Production: Dogwoof Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
Year:
2016
93 min
Website
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and became a foreman.

I mean, he had a huge respect for craftsmen, I mean, he...

Craftsmanship. When we were doing Macbeth at school,

he got a dagger made in the joinery workshop,

and it was just immaculate.

Just the delight in craftsmanship was...

Was one of his defining characteristics, really.

In a way, he was a working-class Tory,

and the Daily Express came in to our house.

Only later did I realise how right-wing it was.

We had one week's holiday, and we would go to Blackpool.

My mother, when asked where we were going, she'd say,

"Blackpool, but the north side, the north end,"

because that was seen as slightly more refined than the south end

where the Pleasure Beach was, it was a bit too proletarian.

But the big treat was seeing the shows and the great comics.

Very much the humour of poverty, and the humour of...

..bodily functions.

The hysteria would be something to behold.

People would weep, WEEP with laughter.

And my old man, who was not given to a lot of laughter, would...

He would be doubled,

he'd have to get his handkerchief out to mop the tears

as they ran down his face.

Let me now ask our audience,

how many of you have seen the play Cathy Come Home, or have heard about

Cathy Come Home, have read about it in the newspapers or magazines,

or heard it discussed?

If you have, will you push your buttons?

Let's just see how many of you know about Cathy Come Home.

Let's have a quick look.

Some 90% of our audience know Cathy Come Home.

It was during that Wednesday Play season

that Ken and I gravitated towards each other.

We both wanted to do the same thing.

We wanted to make films on real locations

about the lives of actual people.

Cathy Come Home had been turned down by the BBC twice

as being too political.

We could take your children into care and turn you out,

- just like that.

- Please don't do that.

But we're not going to. We're going to give you one more chance.

But I must emphasise, this is your last chance.

We knew there was a housing problem,

but I didn't know there were homeless, and neither did Ken.

Come along then.

That's it then, Cath.

As you were doing it, you're thinking,

"How can I shoot this in such a way that it is credible,

"so that I really believe it?"

If you were watching a documentary, you would believe it.

So, that's our...

..standard.

We thought, "Let's shoot in sequence,"

because then an actor has time to develop a character,

to have a past and an unknown future.

If you shoot the story in the chronological order

it would have happened, you don't need to work out,

"How would I feel if I'd been through that?"

You know, and you just have that memory

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